I Get That Lonesome Feeling is a collection of early-'50s MGM recordings that the label issued to capitalize on
Ivory Joe Hunter's Atlantic Records success with "Since I Met You Baby" in 1957. The album contains two of
Hunter's MGM chart-toppers, "I Almost Lost My Mind" and "I Need You So," both from 1950. "Since I Met You Baby" is based on "I Almost Lost My Mind," so the two songs are very similar.
Hunter was a premier piano blues stylist, as heard on his original "If You See My Baby," which is full of blue notes and pathos. But many of his recordings were not blues songs at all, but pop ballads like "Blue Moon," on which sweet horn arrangements take the place of the strings that would appear in a pure pop rendition.
Hunter even covers
Hank Williams' country song "I'm Sorry for You, My Friend," which uses the same melody as "Cold, Cold Heart."
I Get That Lonesome Feeling is a very collectable album, but as a comprehensive anthology of his MGM years, it misses a couple of his Top 10 R&B hits for the label.