I'm a Fool for You Baby I Can't Get Enough of Your Love
| "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for Y'all Infant)" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Side-A characterization of UK vinyl unmarried | ||||
| Single past Lulu | ||||
| from the anthology New Routes | ||||
| B-side | "Sweep Around Your Own Dorsum Door" | |||
| Released | November 1969 (1969-11) | |||
| Recorded | Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Alabama in September 1969 | |||
| Genre | Blue-eyed soul | |||
| Length | 2:46 | |||
| Label | Atco | |||
| Songwriter(due south) | Jim Doris | |||
| Producer(south) | Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler | |||
| Lulu singles chronology | ||||
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"Oh Me Oh My (I'thousand a Fool for You Infant)" is the title of a Top thirty hitting single for Lulu which was recorded in September 1969 in the Muscle Shoals Audio Studio sessions for Lulu's Atco Records album debut New Routes. The song has been most notably remade by Aretha Franklin, The Raes, Buster Poindexter, Tina Arena, and Ronnie Spector on English language Centre (2016).
Lulu version [edit]
Lulu would after opine of Atlantic Record honchos Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, the producers of her album New Routes: "I don't retrieve they knew what to do with me, and the only big hit I got [off the album] was a song that I [brought in] with me" [1] - referring to "Oh Me Oh My ...", which had been written past Jim Doris who – equally Jimmy Doris – had been vocalizer-guitarist for the Stoics, a band which formed in Lulu'southward native Glasgow in the late 1960s and whose membership had included Frankie Miller. (Doris helped contribute another song to New Routes: "After All (I Alive My Life)" - co-written with Miller - and his composition "Take Good Care of Yourself" was featured on the follow-upward album Melody Fair. Reportedly, Doris subsequently went into A&R work before being sidelined by mental instability, which may accept been a factor in his being killed when run over by a bus in London in the late 1980s or early on 1990s.[2]
Issued as advance unmarried from New Routes in Oct 1969, "Oh Me Oh My ..." represented a radical change of direction for Lulu, who was coming off her best e'er UK chart placing at #ii with the Eurovision winner "Boom Bang-a-Bang". The motility to a more mature sound with "Oh Me Oh My ..." was unappreciated in the Britain where the track barely reached the Top fifty. In the US, "Oh Me Oh My ..." ranked as loftier as #4 in Birmingham, Alabama in November 1969, but charted nationally as only a moderate Piece of cake Listening hit at #36. Several performances past Lulu on US television helped interruption "Oh Me Oh My ..." into the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1969, and then buoyed the track as it gradually gained momentum, then that at the end of February 1970, it became Lulu's first Top 30 hit since "To Sir with Love". "Oh Me Oh My ..." peaked at #22 that March. In Cash Box information technology achieved a #xviii height.
In Australia the Go-Set Top 40 chart showed "Oh Me Oh My ..." peaking at #33 in Jan 1970.[3] The RPM 100 chart for Canada ranked "Oh Me Oh My ..." as high equally #16 in March 1970.[iv] That same calendar month the New Zealand Listener Pop-o-meter chart ranked "Oh Me Oh My ..." as high as #12.[nb 1]
Lulu recorded a translated version of "Oh Me Oh My ..." for release in Italia, entitled "Povera Me"; the runway was released in June 1970 to no credible attention, despite a promotional junket past Lulu that July.
Chart operation [edit]
| Nautical chart (1970) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Go Prepare) | 33 |
| Canada (RPM chart) | 16 |
| Uk Singles (The Official Charts Company)[5] | 47 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening[6] | 36 |
| The states Billboard Hot 100[vii] | 22 |
Aretha Franklin version [edit]
Aretha Franklin cut a version of "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby)" for her 1972 Young, Gifted and Black anthology which like Lulu's New Routes was produced by Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd. Franklin'southward first studio album of new material since Spirit in the Nighttime in 1970, Immature, Gifted and Black demonstrated Franklin'southward increasing penchant for covering pop songs and as well Lulu'south "Oh Me Oh My..." Franklin gave R&B readings to songs made famous by Dusty Springfield and Dionne Warwick, specifically "A Brand New Me" and "Apr Fools". "Oh Me Oh My..." was used equally the B-side for the album's lead single "Rock Steady", eventually receiving plenty focus to reach #9 on the R&B charts crossing over to #73 Pop.
Tina Arena version [edit]
| "Oh Me, Oh My" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unmarried past Tina Loonshit | ||||
| from the album Songs of Dearest & Loss 2 | ||||
| Released | November 8, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | AIR Lyndhurst Hall, London in July 2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 3:xv | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jim Doris | |||
| Producer(s) | Duck Blackwell, Paul Guardiani | |||
| Tina Loonshit singles chronology | ||||
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"Oh Me, Oh My" was remade in 2008 by Tina Loonshit for her Songs of Love & Loss two album recorded at AIR Lyndhurst Hall in London accompanied past conductor Simon Hale and the London Studio Orchestra in July 2008. Arena's version – entitled "Oh Me, Oh My" without the subtitle in parentheses – was issued as the album's unmarried in digital format on November 8, 2008 by EMI Commonwealth of australia.[8]
Other versions [edit]
"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby)" has as well been recorded by Oleta Adams, Beth Hart, Barbara Mason, Bill Medley, Buster Poindexter, Joe Tex, Irma Thomas and – as "Oh Me Oh My" – by Ann Austin, Lloyd Terrell, Renee Geyer, Rod McKuen, Benny Mardones for his 1981 anthology "Too Much to Lose", The Raes, B.J. Thomas and Lisa Hartman; the last named performed an abbreviated version of the song in the 1981 miniseries Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls.
Notes [edit]
- ^ The simply national hit parade available for New Zealand 1966–1975, the Pop-o-meter chart, did not reflect sales, rather being a poll compiled from voting coupons sent in past NZ Listener readers.
References [edit]
- ^ Bartlett, Karen (2014). Dusty: an intimate portrait of a musical fable. London: The Robson Press. ISBN978-1-84954-763-5.
- ^ "The Stoics". www.rockingscots.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2002-ten-04. Retrieved 2018-09-xvi .
- ^ "1970 Charts Alphabetize". Get Set . Retrieved 2018-09-16 .
- ^ "RPM 100". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2018-09-16 .
- ^ "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com . Retrieved January xiii, 2022.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Enquiry. p. 151.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 521.
- ^ Tina Loonshit Discography. Tina Loonshit official website. Retrieved on 25 October 2008.
External links [edit]
- Lulu - Oh Me Oh My (I'thou a Fool for You Babe) on YouTube
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Me_Oh_My_%28I%27m_a_Fool_for_You_Baby%29
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