“Your Good Thing (Is About To End)” #18 9/27/1969

The biggest hit from Lou Rawls since “Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing” in 1966. Co-written by David Porter and Isaac Hayes, who also wrote “Soul Man,” “Hold On! I’m Comin’” and plenty more Stax classics, this has a decidedly different feel. Lou became a successful spokesman in the 70’s voicing Budweiser spots and doing TV ads for Colonial Penn insurance long before Alex Trebek. That led to Lou hosting the United Negro College Fund telethons for many years. Rawls was also the singing voice of Garfield the cat in those cartoons.