Artist Guide

King Willonius #1 Single! Do You Ever Get Tired?

Originally published in Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 Singles.

Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles For. . .

June 2026

1. "Do You Ever Get Tired?-------King Willonius

People are going to say I set this up, but I didn't---it just happened. Last month I asked the non-believers to listen to Christian music whose lyrics might annoy. This month I ask the believers to listen to music that might offend. And isn't it fitting that with the passing of Clarence Carter---one of the most brazen of southern soul artists---someone had the super-sized onions to record something like this? Now don't you churchgoers tell me you never get this pissed off. Let's keep it 100. This is one of the greatest venting tunes ever recorded, sizzling with vengeance, blasphemy and vulgarity, and yet it exhorts the same musical influences as West Love's praise to God in last month's "(God's) Been Good," and in truth does it even better, its churchlike call and response format, its tour de force hook, its high-spirited gospel chorus and heavenly horn fills juxtaposing with the startling street profanity to make it one of the most original entries in the southern soul canon. If this tune had any more immediacy, it'd jump out of the stereo speakers in a wife-beater and boxers, sending goose pimples racing up your spine. Just an outstanding vocal! Its only fault is its brevity---two and a half minutes, just two verses, no bridge---and yet by the end of the song King Willonius has calmed down. "You can do better" are his final, conciliatory words. I roll with it on REPEAT. And I wonder...Will it trigger female "response songs" like King George's "Keep On Rollin'"?

Listen to King Willonius singing "Do You Ever Get Tired?" on YouTube.

--Daddy B. Nice