B-side "My Precious Angel" Format 7" Length 2:10 | Released April 1960 Genre R&B | |
"Good Timin'" was a number-one single in the UK Singles Chart during 1960, by Jimmy Jones. In the U.S., the follow-up to "Handy Man" went to number three on Billboard Hot 100 chart and number eight on the R&B chart. The song extrapolates the historical encounters between David and Goliath and between Columbus and Isabella as reason enough for a boy to meet a girl.
It was later covered by Kyu Sakamoto in Japanese.
UK band Showaddywaddy also covered the song and released it as a single in 1981, but it failed to reach the charts. It was also featured on their 1981 album Good Times.
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Good Timin' (Jimmy Jones song) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA