Etta James - Strange Things Happening (1960)

Well I finally found this song and her version of it on Youtube.

This is the song that William Eggleston blasted into my ears over the phone late one night in 1971. Click on the label William Eggleston in the Labels box below to read all about it. Walter Hopps had called me around midnight from Memphis. We were living in Mobile at that time. Walter wanted Eggleston to meet me over the phone. Walter and William Eggleston were both feeling the effects of alcohol. A lot of alcohol.
The first thing Eggleston said was, "Listen to this M-F".
I listened to some loud singing coming over the phone.

Then Eggleston said , "Do you know who is singing this song M-F?"   He repeated that over and over. I thought maybe it was Ruth Brown or Sister Rosetta Tharpe. But it was Etta James. Also known as Peaches and Miss Peaches.
  Indeed in 1971 many strange things were happening every day. And they still are.

William Eggleston Tells Me To Listen To Etta James Singing Strange Things Are Happening Every Day After Walter Hopps Called Me Late One Night In 1971

Above is a photograph of Walter Hopps by William Eggleston.
I knew Walter Hopps starting in 1967 when he came to Washington,D.C. to be the director of The Washington Gallery Of Modern Art. That later became The Corcoran Gallery Dupont Center and then shortly thereafter Walter Hopps became director of The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
When my family moved to Mobile,Alabama in 1971 I kept in touch with Walter Hopps. He first learned of William Eggleston around 1971. He was in Memphis visiting Eggleston in 1971 when for some reason late at night when they both had been drinking he wanted Eggleston to talk to me on the phone. So Walter called me in the middle of the night one night. I think it must have been around one o'clock in the morning. Maybe midnight.
The phone rang. I picked up the phone. It was Walter saying "Joe, there is someone here I want you to talk to". I guess Walter figured two Southerners could communicate.
He put William Eggleston on the line. I had never heard of him in 1971. I had no idea who he was. And he didn't know me.
All Eggleston said to me in a shouting voice was "Listen to this MF. Do you know who this is?" He proceeded to play loud music and a female voice began singing "Strange Things Are Happening Every Day". He asked again "MF do you know who that is?" I ventured a guess. Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Or maybe Ruth Brown.
"No, he shouted, it is Etta James MF". All this time he was shouting at me through the phone full volume. He never said anything else. It was a strange phone conversation to say the least.
Later Eggleston became famous. Here is some information about him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Eggleston
I looked on Youtube and I cannot find Etta James doing her version of "Strange Things Happening Every day" which is far different from the version by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Entirely different lyrics.
So here are the lyrics to the Etta James version. Written by Etta James.

Strange Things Happen Lyrics

Oh, I see you out late at night

You don't treat your baby right

There's strange things happenin' everyday



The love that you refuse

Some other man can use

Strange things are happenin' everyday



Everyday, everyday

(Everyday, everyday)

There's strange things happenin' everyday



The love that you refuse

Some other man can use

Strange things are happenin' everyday



The way you never miss the water

Until your well runs dry

Strange things are happenin' everyday



I won't be satisfied

Till I see teardrops in your eyes

Strange things are happenin' everyday



Yes, everyday, everyday


(Everyday, everyday)

There's strange things happenin' everyday



I won't be satisfied

Till I see teardrops in your eyes

Strange things are happenin' everyday



Oh, well you thought I was a fool

But I got blues for you

Strange things are happenin' everyday



I found this someone new

And I'm feelin' through you

Strange things are happenin' everyday



Everyday, everyday

(Everyday, everyday)

There's strange things happenin' everyday



Found this someone new

And I'm feelin' through you

Strange things are happenin' everyday

Walter Hopps Tells of Meeting William Eggleston For The First Time

The above is a picture of Walter Hopps taken in California in 1974 by William Eggleston.

Here is a link to the wikipedia page on Walter Hopps. Read it to see who this extraordinary man was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hopps
There is an external link at the bottom of the wikipedia page on Walter Hopps to the article mentioned below. Just go to the wikipedia page and scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link for the interview with Walter Hopps from Art Forum magazine. It is really the best interview with Walter Hopps I can remember reading.
And here is a really good interview with Walter Hopps from Art Forum magazine:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n6_v34/ai_18163692/
It is the article at the top of the list:
Walter Hopps hopps hopps
ArtForum, Feb, 1996 by Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The video below shows Walter Hopps telling of meeting Eggleston for the first time.
And then Eggleston responds to questions about whether words and pictures have anything to do with each other.