[1] 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".

[2] Little Walter recorded a Chicago blues adaptation of the song using the title "Just Your Fool".

It was recorded in December 1960 in Chicago, with Walter (vocal and blues harp) and backing by Otis Spann (piano), Fred Robinson and Luther Tucker (guitars), Willie Dixon and/or Jimmie Lee Robinson (bass),[3] and Fred Below or George Hunter (drums).

[4] In 2010, the American singer Cyndi Lauper recorded "Just Your Fool" for her album Memphis Blues.

[8] She performed it live with Musselwhite on the third-season finale of the Celebrity Apprentice reality game show.