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1960 single by Willie Cobbs

"You Don't Love Me"
You Don't Love Me single cover.jpg
Unmarried by Willie Cobbs
B-side "Y'all're So Hard to Delight"
Released 1960 (1960)
Recorded 1960
Studio Echo, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre Blues
Length 2:32
Label Mojo
Producer(s) Billy Lee Riley, Stan Kessler

"Y'all Don't Dear Me" is a rhythm and dejection-influenced blues vocal recorded by American musician Willie Cobbs in 1960. Adapted from Bo Diddley'south 1955 song "She's Fine She's Mine", information technology is Cobbs' all-time-known song and features a guitar effigy and melody that has appealed to musicians in several genres.

Although information technology became a regional hit when it was released in Memphis, Tennessee, copyright issues prevented its further promotion and national chart success. The vocal inspired many adaptations, such equally "Shimmy Shimmy Walk" by the Megatons and "Y'all Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" past Jamaican vocaliser Dawn Penn. The Allman Brothers Band popularized it with their extended jam concert performances, every bit captured on At Fillmore East (1971).

Background [edit]

Willie Cobbs, an Arkansas native, moved to Chicago in 1947, where he began exploring the burgeoning blues scene centered around Maxwell Street.[1] While in Chicago, he learned the dejection harp from Piffling Walter and began an association with pianist Eddie Boyd.[1] In 1958, Cobbs recorded an unsuccessful unmarried for Ruler Records and auditioned for James Bracken and Vee-Jay Records, who felt that he sounded too similar to their biggest artist, Jimmy Reed.[1]

Cobbs and Boyd somewhen returned to Arkansas and began performing in the local clubs.[2] Cobbs claims that he heard a field paw singing "Uh, uh, uh, you don't love me, yes I know" to a haunting melody one morning time and that inspired him to write a song.[3] Music journalist Rob Chapman calls "Yous Don't Dearest Me" "Willie Cobbs's 1961 adaptation and retitling of Bo Diddley's 1955 'She's Fine, She's Mine'."[iv] Bo Diddley recorded the song in 1955 for Checker Records, a Chess subsidiary.[5]

Cobbs began performing "You Don't Dear Me" to enthusiastic audiences and approached a tape label in Memphis, Tennessee, with the hope of recording information technology.[two] The owner of the Home of the Blues record visitor turned him down—"He said, 'It's a damn good song but yous can't sing'", Cobbs recalled.[2] Nevertheless, ii other producers, Baton Lee Riley and Stan Kessler, overheard the audience and offered to tape him.[2]

Recording and composition [edit]

Cobbs and Boyd entered the Echo Studio in Memphis to record "You Don't Dear Me" for Riley'southward Mojo Records.[six] Cobbs sang while Boyd accompanied him on pianoforte.[vii] According to Cobb and Boyd, Sammy Lawhorn, who later on was a fellow member of Dingy Waters' touring band, provided the distinctive guitar figure.[6] [3] [7] A Vee-Jay discography lists Rico Collins on tenor saxophone, Wilbert Harris on drums, and Cobbs on bass.[7] However, Cobbs claims that an unknown bassist performed for the session, after his regular bass actor had quit.[3] Instead of the common twelve-bar blues system, the verses are sung on the IV chord, while the instrumentation repeats the riff on the I chords:[viii]

Ah ah ah, you don't beloved me yes I know (ii×)
'Cause you left me baby, and I have no place to become

Cobbs' song uses Bo Diddley'due south guitar riff and melody, too as many of the lyrics, including the primal "y'all don't love me, yous don't honey me I know" line.[9] A review in Billboard magazine noted, "While this is a traditional blues in form, the unusual, nearly exotic, organisation with its hypnotic vanquish combined with Bo Diddley'southward anguished vocal takes this far out of the range of the ordinary".[10] Diddley uses a repeated figure on his tremolo-laden guitar and the first verses are sung without lyrics:

Ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah (2×)
Well y'all don't dearest me babe, you don't love me I know

The lyrics "she's fine she's mine" practise not announced in the vocal (Diddley had recorded an unrelated song, "You Don't Dearest Me (You Don't Care)", with unlike music and lyrics two months prior on March 2, 1955, which was released on his Go Bo Diddley anthology). "She's Fine She'due south Mine" was included as the B-side to his 2nd single, "Diddley Daddy".[11] Although "Diddley Daddy" became a hit, "She's Fine She's Mine" did not appear in the record charts.[12]

Releases and copyright issue [edit]

Near immediately after Mojo Records issued the single, it became a number one hit in Memphis.[2] Hoping to reach a wider audition, Kessler and Riley sold the master recording to Home of the Blues Records, the label that had previously turned Cobbs downward.[2] They later on issued the single and in an April three, 1961, review of new records in Billboard, it was listed under "R&B Limited Potentials".[13] Home of the Blues likewise leased the unmarried to Vee-Jay Records (who had also passed on recording Cobbs), who issued information technology; a review by Billboard on November 27, 1961, indicated that information technology had "strong sales potential".[fourteen] (An additional release by Ruler Records has overdubbed organ.)[7]

Problem ensued when Riley took the songwriting credit for "Shimmy Shimmy Walk, Office ane", an instrumental version of the vocal recorded past the Megatons, a Louisiana-based grouping.[2] According to blues historian Gerard Herzhaft, Riley asserts that he was the only guitarist at Cobbs' Mojo session, contrary to Cobbs' and Lawhorn's recollections.[15] Lawsuits were filed, Vee-Jay stopped promoting the single, and information technology failed to reach the Billboard charts.[2] Cobbs has revisited "You Don't Love Me" several times, including in 1998 for his Pay or Practise 11 Months & 29 Days album.[16]

Adaptations by other artists [edit]

The Megatons [edit]

In 1961, the Megatons, a Louisiana-based instrumental combo, recorded "Shimmy, Shimmy Walk, Part i" an instrumental version of "You Don't Honey Me".[17] Information technology was released as a 2-function single by Contrivance Records, based in Feriday, Louisiana. A singles review in Billboard described it as "A rousing medium tempo rocker with a teen dance audio and a rousing r.&b. flavor receives a strong performance from the instrumental group. Side I is the hot side, it swings."[18] The single was later distributed past Checker Records and reached number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100.[nineteen] Albert Male monarch recorded "Shimmy, Shimmy Walk" for the 1969 Years Gone Past album, although some releases list it as "You Don't Love Me (instrumental)".[twenty]

Junior Wells [edit]

"You Don't Honey Me" was a staple of Junior Wells and Buddy Guy's repertoire.[21] In 1965, the duo recorded the song as "Yous Don't Love Me Baby" for their influential anthology Hoodoo Human Blues.[22] Their version altered the guitar figure somewhat and added some new lyrics:

You don't beloved me baby, you lot don't dear me yes I know (2×)
If yous get out me baby, don't you know you lot're gonna hurt me so

Inferior Wells later recorded the song for his album Coming at Y'all (1968);[23] [24] Buddy Guy as well recorded information technology for Concur That Plane! (1972).[25] [26]

In 1968, Al Kooper with Stephen Stills recorded "Y'all Don't Dear Me" for the highly successful Super Session album.[27] Later, Kooper explained in his autobiography: "[The Wells/Guy version] was usually done equally a shuffle, only I found it lent itself well to a heavy-metallic eighth-note experience. After, when I mixed the album, I put the ii-rails mix through a process called 'phasing' that gave it an eerie jet-aeroplane result."[28] AllMusic critic Lindsay Planer noted in an album review: "Updating the dejection standard 'You Don't Love Me' allows Stills to sport some heavily distorted licks, which come off sounding similar Jimi Hendrix."[27] [a]

Dawn Penn [edit]

Jamaican singer Dawn Penn recorded "You Don't Love Me" in 1967.[30] She was introduced to the vocal by producer Coxsone Dodd, who imported American rhythm and blues records to play for his audio system entertainment businesses.[31] Most of the Bo Diddley/Willie Cobbs melody and lyrics were used, however, her version featured a rocksteady backing arrangement instead of the guitar riff.

No no no, you don't love me and I know at present (2×)
'Cause you left me baby, and I got no place to go now

In 1994, she remade it equally the dancehall-influenced "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)", which was an international hit.[xxx] Penn's rendition inspired versions by Rihanna, who recorded it in 2005 with Vybz Kartel for Music of the Sun, and Beyoncé Knowles for the I Am... World Tour alive CD/DVD in 2010 .

Allman Brothers Band [edit]

The Allman Brothers Ring included the song on their original lineup setlist. According to Buddy Guy biographer Alan Harper, "Junior's [Wells's 1965 Hoodoo Man album] version of 'You Don't Love Me' had inspired the Allman Brothers to cover the vocal on their live At Fillmore Due east [1971] album."[32] Duane Allman chose "You lot Don't Honey Me" to create a special tribute to recently slain R&B saxophonist Male monarch Curtis, interweaving Curtis' signature "Soul Serenade" into a rendition of the vocal played at a band show at the University of Music in Manhattan on August fifteen, 1971.[33] A version of the "You Don't Love Me/Soul Serenade" medley was afterwards recorded as function of a in-studio concert held at tape label A&R Studios in Manhattan on August 26, 1971, and broadcast live by WPLJ-FM. It was first released on the ring'south Dreams compilation in 1989, and afterward on Live from A&R Studios in 2016. [34]

Recognition and legacy [edit]

Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft notes that "the riff of 'You lot Don't Love Me' has inspired quantities of bluesmen".[35] The song has been interpreted and recorded by artists in a variety of styles, with some post-obit the Diddley/Cobbs versions and others following the Wells/Guy versions. Gary Walker recorded a version that reached number 26 in March 1966 on the UK Singles Chart[36]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Hendrix'southward "Bold as Love" (the closing runway on his 1967 Axis: Bold as Dearest album) featured an early utilize of phasing, sometimes identified as "flanging".[29]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c Dahl 1996, p. 55.
  2. ^ a b c d due east f 1000 h "Willie Cobbs". Blueish Heaven Studios . Retrieved April 22, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c Living Blues 2000, p. xix. sfn error: no target: CITEREFLiving_Blues2000 (assistance)
  4. ^ Chapman 2015, eBook.
  5. ^ Malvinni 2013, p. 29.
  6. ^ a b O'Neal 2002, pp. 267–268. sfn mistake: no target: CITEREFO'Neal2002 (help)
  7. ^ a b c d Leadbitter 1987, p. 269. sfn error: no target: CITEREFLeadbitter1987 (help)
  8. ^ Titon 2008, p. 198.
  9. ^ Jones 2012, p. 363.
  10. ^ Billboard 1955, p. 47.
  11. ^ "Diddley Daddy" / "She'southward Fine She'southward Mine", Checker Records 819
  12. ^ Whitburn 1988, p. 118.
  13. ^ Billboard 1961a, p. 36.
  14. ^ Billboard 1961b, p. 31.
  15. ^ Herzhaft 2003, p. 412.
  16. ^ "Willie Cobbs: 'Yous Don't Honey Me' – Appears On". AllMusic . Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  17. ^ "The Megatones: 'Shimmy Shimmy Walk' – Appears On". AllMusic . Retrieved June 29, 2019.
  18. ^ Billboard 1961c, p. 23.
  19. ^ Billboard 1962, Cover.
  20. ^ "Albert Male monarch: As Years Go By – Overview". AllMusic . Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  21. ^ Kooper, p. 134. sfn error: no target: CITEREFKooper (aid)
  22. ^ Harper 2016, p. 38.
  23. ^ Dahl, Bill. "Junior Wells: Coming at Yous – Review". AllMusic . Retrieved June 29, 2019.
  24. ^ Wells's Coming at Yous anthology liner notes list the songwriter equally "Willie C. Cob" [sic].
  25. ^ Dahl, Bill. "Buddy Guy: Hold That Aeroplane – Review". AllMusic . Retrieved June 29, 2019.
  26. ^ Guy's Concord That Airplane LP characterization lists "Ellis McDaniel" as the songwriter.
  27. ^ a b Planer, Lindsay. "Al Kooper/Mike Bloomfield/Stephen Stills: Super Session – Review". AllMusic . Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  28. ^ Kooper 2008, p. 134.
  29. ^ Jones, Chris (April 24, 2007). "Jimi Hendrix Axis Bold every bit Love Review". BBC.com . Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  30. ^ a b Henderson, Alex. "Dawn Penn – Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved April 22, 2011.
  31. ^ Moskowitz 2005, eBook.
  32. ^ Harper 2016, p. 58.
  33. ^ "Allman Brothers Band: New York, NY – Sunday, August fifteen, 1971, University of Music, Setlist". allmanbrothersband.com . Retrieved June 29, 2019.
  34. ^ "The Allman Brothers Ring Live from A&R Studios: Express Edition Vinyl LP Release". allmanbrothersband.com . Retrieved June 29, 2019.
  35. ^ Herzhaft 1992, pp. 195, 478.
  36. ^ "Gary Walker – Singles". Official Charts . Retrieved June 22, 2019.

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