Junior Parker: “Love Ain’t Nothin’ But A Business Goin’ On” (1971)

/ Mike Buchanan

I don’t have a BBC TV licence – why would I want to fund 24/7/365 anti-male propaganda? – but access to BBC radio and its archives remains free. I’m a huge fan of Cerys Matthews, in particular her weekly Blues Show, available on BBC Sounds. Her 17th February show kicked off with a song by someone I hadn’t heard of before, Junior Parker. The song title Love Ain’t Nothin’ But A Business Goin’ On.

Junior Parker (1932-71) was an American blues singer and harmonica player. YouTube has a number of files of the aforementioned track, one of them here (audio, 3:21). The following refrain appears a number of times:

Love ain’t nothing but a business goin’ on.

When there ain’t no money comin’ in,

You wake up one morning to find your baby gone.

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4 thoughts on “Junior Parker: “Love Ain’t Nothin’ But A Business Goin’ On” (1971)”

  2. Basically, the main trading card of the male in the sexual marketplace is having a job. https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf

    As an academic, Roy Baumeister was brave to point out that, for a man, no job = no nookie.

    That simple male aspiration is thwarted, these days, by EEO, AA, ESG, DEI. And having successfully made the Universities a hostile environment for men, graduates are 70% female, so the future isn’t a beacon of hope.

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