# Looking For The Original Artist Of Everybody's Leaving Town

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 3, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-original-artist-of-everybodys-leaving-town/795437 "2017-09-03T23:24:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-original-artist-of-everybodys-leaving-town/795437/1 "2017-09-03T23:24:56Z")

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Thanks if you can help me with this one. Here’s some info I already found by googling, and here’s what came up:

It’s NOT a part of “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues” although it sure could fit in there.

And it isn’t Jerry Lee’s version of “Everybody’s…”

Thank you

Q

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-original-artist-of-everybodys-leaving-town/795437/2 "2017-09-05T03:23:16Z")

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It was BJ Thomas, tune written by David/Bacharach (IIRC).

Thanks anyway, but if some guitarist out in Doperland has the chords to James Taylor’s “Damn This Traffic Jam”, I sure would be obliged if someone might send them to me. I’d like to work it up for Christmas if I could.

Thanks again!

Quasi