Just Your Fool
| "Just Your Fool" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra | |
| B-side | "A-12" |
| Released | 1954 |
| Recorded | New York City, 1953 |
| Genre | Rhythm and blues |
| Length | 2:49 |
| Label | Mercury |
| Songwriter(s) | Buddy Johnson |
"Just Your Fool" (or "I'm Just Your Fool" as it was first titled) is a rhythm and blues-style song written and recorded by the American jazz and jump blues bandleader/pianist Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra in 1953. Called an "R&B anthem", the song has a big-band arrangement and his sister Ella Johnson on vocals—her "delicate and deceptively sweet phrasing was ideally suited to ballads such as this". "I'm Just Your Fool" became a Billboard R&B chart record hit, reaching number six in 1954.