Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is a line from the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind" starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The line is spoken by Rhett Butler (Gable), as his last words to Scarlett O'Hara (Leigh), in response to her tearful question: "Where shall I go? What shall I do?" Scarlett clings to the hope that she can win him back. This line is also partially spoken by Rhett Butler in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind", published in 1936, from which the film is derived.
I Just Don't Give a Damn shot to #1 in 1976), his own releases languished. "Memories of Us," the title track of his first LP released after his divorce, limped to #21 on the singles chart. However, with the benefit of hindsight, the most extraordinary aspect about the single is the stunning B-side "I Just Don't Give a Damn." Jones, who wrote many of his own hits in the first decade of his career, had become every country songwriter's dream client in the years since. Consequently, he had little need to compose as many songs as he used to since he was often given first crack