Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)
| "Oh Me Oh My (I'thou a Fool for You Infant)" | ||||
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 Side-A label of UK vinyl unmarried | ||||
| Unmarried by Lulu | ||||
| from the album New Routes | ||||
| B-side | "Sweep Effectually Your Ain Back Door" | |||
| Released | Nov 1969 (1969-11) | |||
| Recorded | Musculus Shoals Sound Studio, Alabama in September 1969 | |||
| Genre | Blue-eyed soul | |||
| Length | ii:46 | |||
| Label | Atco | |||
| Songwriter(south) | Jim Doris | |||
| Producer(s) | Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler | |||
| Lulu singles chronology | ||||
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"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Infant)" is the title of a Peak thirty hit single for Lulu which was recorded in September 1969 in the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio sessions for Lulu's Atco Records album debut New Routes. The vocal has been almost notably remade by Aretha Franklin, The Raes, Buster Poindexter, Tina Loonshit, and Ronnie Spector on English language Heart (2016).
Lulu version [edit]
Lulu would subsequently opine of Atlantic Record honchos Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, the producers of her album New Routes: "I don't call up they knew what to do with me, and the just big hit I got [off the anthology] was a song that I [brought in] with me" [1] - referring to "Oh Me Oh My ...", which had been written by Jim Doris who – as Jimmy Doris – had been vocaliser-guitarist for the Stoics, a band which formed in Lulu'south native Glasgow in the late 1960s and whose membership had included Frankie Miller. (Doris helped contribute some other song to New Routes: "Later on All (I Alive My Life)" - co-written with Miller - and his composition "Take Good Intendance of Yourself" was featured on the follow-up album Tune Fair. Reportedly, Doris afterward went into A&R work earlier existence sidelined past mental instability, which may have been a gene in his being killed when run over by a charabanc in London in the belatedly 1980s or early 1990s.[two]
Issued equally advance single from New Routes in October 1969, "Oh Me Oh My ..." represented a radical alter of direction for Lulu, who was coming off her best e'er UK chart placing at #2 with the Eurovision winner "Boom Bang-a-Bang". The motility to a more mature sound with "Oh Me Oh My ..." was unappreciated in the United kingdom where the track barely reached the Top l. In the US, "Oh Me Oh My ..." ranked as high as #4 in Birmingham, Alabama in November 1969, only charted nationally equally only a moderate Like shooting fish in a barrel Listening hit at #36. Several performances by Lulu on U.s. idiot box helped break "Oh Me Oh My ..." into the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1969, so buoyed the track equally it gradually gained momentum, so 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 it achieved a #18 peak.
In Australia the Get-Set Elevation 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 as #16 in March 1970.[iv] That same month the New Zealand Listener Pop-o-meter chart ranked "Oh Me Oh My ..." as high equally #12.[nb ane]
Lulu recorded a translated version of "Oh Me Oh My ..." for release in Italian republic, entitled "Povera Me"; the track was released in June 1970 to no apparent attention, despite a promotional junket by Lulu that July.
Chart performance [edit]
| Chart (1970) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Become Prepare) | 33 |
| Canada (RPM chart) | sixteen |
| U.k. Singles (The Official Charts Visitor)[5] | 47 |
| U.S. Billboard Like shooting fish in a barrel Listening[6] | 36 |
| Us Billboard Hot 100[seven] | 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 album which like Lulu'south New Routes was produced by Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd. Franklin'due south first studio anthology of new cloth since Spirit in the Nighttime in 1970, Young, Gifted and Blackness demonstrated Franklin's increasing penchant for roofing pop songs and besides Lulu's "Oh Me Oh My..." Franklin gave R&B readings to songs made famous by Dusty Springfield and Dionne Warwick, specifically "A Make New Me" and "April Fools". "Oh Me Oh My..." was used as the B-side for the album's atomic number 82 unmarried "Rock Steady", eventually receiving enough focus to reach #ix on the R&B charts crossing over to #73 Pop.
Tina Loonshit version [edit]
| "Oh Me, Oh My" | ||||
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| Single by Tina Arena | ||||
| from the album Songs of Love & Loss 2 | ||||
| Released | Nov 8, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | AIR Lyndhurst Hall, London in July 2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 3:15 | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jim Doris | |||
| Producer(southward) | Duck Blackwell, Paul Guardiani | |||
| Tina Loonshit singles chronology | ||||
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"Oh Me, Oh My" was remade in 2008 past Tina Loonshit for her Songs of Love & Loss 2 anthology recorded at AIR Lyndhurst Hall in London accompanied by usher Simon Hale and the London Studio Orchestra in July 2008. Loonshit's version – entitled "Oh Me, Oh My" without the subtitle in parentheses – was issued as the album's unmarried in digital format on Nov eight, 2008 by EMI Australia.[eight]
Other versions [edit]
"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Infant)" has too been recorded by Oleta Adams, Beth Hart, Barbara Mason, Neb Medley, Buster Poindexter, Joe Tex, Irma Thomas and – equally "Oh Me Oh My" – by Ann Austin, Lloyd Terrell, Renee Geyer, Rod McKuen, Benny Mardones for his 1981 album "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 only national hit parade available for New Zealand 1966–1975, the Pop-o-meter chart, did not reflect sales, rather existence a poll compiled from voting coupons sent in by NZ Listener readers.
References [edit]
- ^ Bartlett, Karen (2014). Dusty: an intimate portrait of a musical legend. London: The Robson Press. ISBN978-i-84954-763-5.
- ^ "The Stoics". www.rockingscots.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2002-10-04. Retrieved 2018-09-16 .
- ^ "1970 Charts Alphabetize". Go Fix . Retrieved 2018-09-16 .
- ^ "RPM 100". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2018-09-16 .
- ^ "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com . Retrieved January 13, 2022.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 151.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 521.
- ^ Tina Arena Discography. Tina Loonshit official website. Retrieved on 25 October 2008.
External links [edit]
- Lulu - Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Infant) on YouTube
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Me_Oh_My_%28I%27m_a_Fool_for_You_Baby%29
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