"Quarter to Three" is a popular song, adapted and expanded from "A Night with Daddy 'G' - Part 1" (Legrand LEG 1004), an instrumental by the Church Street Five, which was written by Gene Barge, Frank Guida

Frank Guida

Frank Guida was a Sicilian-American songwriter and music producer credited with discovering Gary U.S. Bonds, whose hits, including "New Orleans" and "Quarter to Three", he produced. He was also a songwriter for Leroy Toombs...

 and Joseph Royster, and sung by Gary U.S. Bonds

Gary U.S. Bonds

Gary U.S. Bonds is an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer. He is also a prolific songwriter.-Career:...

. The song became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 in the United States on June 26, 1961, and remained there for two weeks.

The 45rpm single of "A Night with Daddy 'G'" identifies the composers by their last names only – Barge, Guida, Royster – and identifies the music publisher as Pepe Music (BMI).

The single was recorded with very rough sound quality (compared to other records at the time). Producer Frank Guida has been quoted on subsequent CD reissues that his production sound was exactly what he wanted it to sound like.

The UK release on Top Rank International JAR 575 reached number 11 in the UK chart on September 2, 1961. The record's B-side is "Time Old Story" (Beckner).

The song was sung regularly by Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...

 as an encore

Encore (concert)

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 before he was famous
and remained in his repertoire afterward, appearing on the Hammersmith Odeon London '75

Hammersmith Odeon London '75

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concert document and, as performed in 1979, the No Nukes

No Nukes (film)

No Nukes is a 1980 documentary and concert film that contained selections from the September 1979 Madison Square Garden concerts by the Musicians United for Safe Energy collective, with Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hall being the key organizers of the event and guiding forces...

film.

"Quarter to Three" appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.