JOHNNY 'GUITAR' WATSON: Ganster of Love, 1957

JOHNNY 'GUITAR' WATSON:

Born February 3, 1935
Houston, Texas
Died May 17, 1996 (aged 61)
Yokohama, Japan
Genres Blues, blues-rock, electric blues, jazz blues, funk
Instruments Guitar, keyboards, bass, drums
Years active 1950s–1990s
Labels Federal, RPM, Keen, King, Chess, Fantasy, DJM




Ganster of Love
1957

Released 1957
Recorded 1953 - 1954
Genre Blues
Electric blues
Blues rock
Label Keen Records (1957)
King Records (1958)
Sanctuary Records (2002)

"I Got Eyes"
"Motorhead Baby"
"Gettin Drunk"
"Walkin To My Baby"
"Highway 60"
"Space Guitar (alt)"
"Sad Fool"
"What's Going On"
"Half Pint of Whiskey"
"No I Can't"
"Thinking"
"Broke and Lonely"
"Cuttin In"
"What You Do to Me"
"Those Lonely, Lonely Nights"
"You Can't Take It With You"
"I Just Wants Me Some Love"
"Gangster of Love"
"Space Guitar"
"Sweet Lovin Mama"


Johnny "Guitar" Watson - organ, synthesizer, bass, guitar, piano, conga, drums, keyboards, timbales, triangle, vocals, clavinet
Rudy Copeland, James Ivory Johnson, Randie Redman, Darcus Thomas, Marci Thomas, - vocals (bckgr)
Paul Dunmall, Knud Jensen - saxophone
Bruce Fowler - trombone, horn
Walt Fowler - trumpet, horn
Peter Martin Trumpet
Tommy Robertson - trombone
Emry Thomas - drums, vocals (bckgr), whistle, siren, bell tree
Albert Wing - horn, sax







Gangster Of Love
Johnny "Guitar" Watson

Jesse James and Frank James,
Billy the Kid and all the rest,
Supposed to be some bad cats
Out in the West.

But when they dug me,
And my gangster ways,
They hung up their guns,
And made into their graves.

Cause I'm a gangster of love,
Say, I'm a gangster of love.
Oh, well now,
When I walk down the street,
All the girls that I meet
Say: "he's a gangster of love"

(Yeah!)

I robbed a local beauty contest,
for their first place winner,
they found her with me out in Hollywood,
eating a big steak dinner.
They tried to get her to go back,
to pick up her prize.
She stood up and told them:
"You just don't realize, that he's a gangster of love"

And in the morning,
gangster of love.
(Uuh yeah, now!)
When I walk in to a bar,
girls from... from near and far,
say: "he's a gangster of love".

(Alright!)

I jump on my white horse Cadillac,
I ride across the border line,
I rope 65 girls,
I kiss them all the same time,
I take 25 or 30,
I put 'em all on a freight,
A million dollar reward for me,
In each and every state,
Sheriff say "Is you "Guitar" Watson?"
In a very deep voice
And I say "yes sir brother sheriff, and that's your wife on the back of my horse"

Cause I'm a gangster of love
I'm a gangster of love

(Yeah!)

When I walk down the street,
All the girls that I meet
Say: "he's a gangster of love"