What a quality track and vocalist...unbelievably, never heard this version before today! My neighbour must think I'm weird playing this several times repeatedly!
On this day in 1972 {February 26th} Donnie Elbert performed "I Can't Help Myself" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'... One month earlier on January 29th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #22 and spent 9 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #14 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart and #11 on the U.K. Singles chart... The Four Tops took the original recording to #1 {for 2 weeks} in 1965... R.I.P. Mr. Elbert {1936 - 1989} & Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}...