Irma Thomas - Anyone Who Knows What Love Is - 11:5:22 12.49 PM

Song: Anyone Who knows What Love Is (Will Understand)Song by: Irma ThomasKeyboardist: Gail NoblesPodcast Vocals: Gail NoblesToday’s topic: Irma Thomas on Podcast & Blues.Irma Thomas is a singer from New Orleans. She is known as the “Soul Queen of New Orleans”.Thomas is a contemporary of Aretha Franklin and Etta James, but never experienced their level of commercial success.[2] In 2007, she won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for After the Rain, her first Grammy in a career spanning over 50 years.I love Irma’s song “ Anyone Who Knows What Love is (Will Understand). " It is a 1964 R&B song written by Jeannie Seely and Randy Newman. The song is about a woman who stays in a relationship with a man despite his bad behavior. while "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)" peaked at number 52 in the Billboard Top 100 chart.Irma Thomas is 81 years of age. According to New York Times, she began singing professionally in her teens, while already raising four children and by the mid-1960s, her career was taking off.I’m GN, and you’re listening to Podcast & Blues.Blues Music