"Next Time You See Me" is a blues song recorded in 1956 by Junior Parker

Junior Parker

Junior Parker was an American Memphis blues singer and musician. He is best remembered for his unique voice which has been described as "honeyed," and "velvet-smooth"...

 (as "Little Junior Parker" as he was then known). The song was Parker's first record chart appearance after joining Duke Records

Duke Records

Duke Records was an American record label, started in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1952 by David James Mattis and Bill Fitzgerald, owners of Tri-State Recording Company. Their first release was Roscoe Gordon singing "Hey Fat Girl", issued on Duke R-1, later amended to R-101.After forming a partnership...

 and one of his most successful singles in both the R&B and pop charts. "Next Time You See Me" has been performed and recorded by numerous blues and other artists.

Original song

"Next Time You See Me" is a mid-tempo twelve-bar blues shuffle with breaks. As with most of Junior Parker's songs, it is "more melodic than the average blues" and features Parker's smooth vocal approach propelled by a horn-driven rhythm section. The backing is provided by the Bill Harvey Band with Parker (vocals), Harvey (tenor sax), Joe Scott (Trumpet), Pluma Davis (trombone), Connie McBooker

Connie McBooker

Connie McBooker was a blues pianist based in Houston, Texas, USA.McBooker worked with such artists as B.B. King, Hank Ballard, Junior Parker, Cal Green, and . Most of his work was as a session performer, but he also had some solo works, most notably "Shout Baby Boogie.""Shout Baby Boogie" was on...

 (piano), Pat Hare

Pat Hare

Auburn "Pat" Hare was an American Memphis blues guitarist and singer.-Biography:He was born in Cherry Valley, Arkansas. He recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, serving as a sideman for Howlin' Wolf, James Cotton, Muddy Waters, Bobby Bland and other artists...

 (guitar), Hamp Simmons (bass), and Sonny Freeman (drums). In 1957, the song became a #5 hit in the Billboard R&B chart as well as reaching #74 in the pop Hot 100.

Other versions

Several blues and other artists have recorded "Next Time You See Me", including Frankie Lymon

Frankie Lymon

Franklin Joseph "Frankie" Lymon was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of a New York City-based early rock and roll group, The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid teens...

 from his debut album Rock & Roll (1958); Freddie Roach

Freddie Roach (organist)

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 from Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar (Freddie Roach album)

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(1964); James Cotton

James Cotton

James Cotton is an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who has performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time as well as with his own band.-Career:...

 from Cut You Loose! (1967); Mike Bloomfield

Mike Bloomfield

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 from It's Not Killing Me

It's Not Killing Me

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(1968); Hank Crawford

Hank Crawford

Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. was an American R&B, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter...

 from Midnight Ramble

Midnight Ramble (album)

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(1982); and Rick Danko

Rick Danko

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 from Live on Breeze Hill

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Live on Breeze Hill was The Band bassist Rick Danko's third solo album, and the last released before his death in December 1999. It was credited to the "Rick Danko Band": Rick Danko, Garth Hudson & Aaron Hurwitz....

(1999). Earlier in their career, the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

performed the song in concert, several recordings of which were later released.