I Almost Lost My Mind

"I Almost Lost My Mind" is a popular song written by Ivory Joe Hunter and published in 1950. Hunter's recording of the song was a number one hit on the US Billboard R&B singles chart in that year.^[1]

Hunter recorded the 12-bar blues style song on October 1, 1949, and became a rhythm and blues hit and a pop standard. Hunter's record sold one million copies by 1956.^[2] The best selling version of the song was a cover version by Pat Boone, which reached number one on the Billboard charts in 1956.^[3] It has since been recorded by a variety of pop artists, big bands, country and western stars, rock and rollers, and Latin, jazz and blues performers.

In the Blues song, the narrator states that he lost his baby, and goes to see the gypsy to have his fortune read, However, he hangs his head down in disappointment when she tells him that his "baby has left him and this time she's gone for good". The final verse was unrhymed , with the word "Good" said twice. In Boone's version, he ends it with a long "OOHH" as if he was crying.

• List of number-one R&B singles of 1950 (U.S.)
• List of number-one singles of 1956 (U.S.)