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| "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)" | ||||
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 Side-A label of UK vinyl single | ||||
| Single past Lulu | ||||
| from the album New Routes | ||||
| B-side | "Sweep Around Your Ain Back Door" | |||
| Released | November 1969 (1969-11) | |||
| Recorded | Musculus Shoals Sound Studio, Alabama in September 1969 | |||
| Genre | Blue-eyed soul | |||
| Length | ii:46 | |||
| Label | Atco | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jim Doris | |||
| Producer(s) | Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler | |||
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"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)" is the title of a Top 30 hit single for Lulu which was recorded in September 1969 in the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio sessions for Lulu'south Atco Records album debut New Routes. The vocal has been most notably remade by Aretha Franklin, The Raes, Buster Poindexter, Tina Arena, and Ronnie Spector on English language Middle (2016).
Lulu version [edit]
Lulu would afterward opine of Atlantic Record honchos Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, the producers of her album New Routes: "I don't think 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 by Jim Doris who – as Jimmy Doris – had been vocalist-guitarist for the Stoics, a band which formed in Lulu'due south native Glasgow in the late 1960s and whose membership had included Frankie Miller. (Doris helped contribute some other vocal to New Routes: "Subsequently All (I Live My Life)" - co-written with Miller - and his composition "Take Good Intendance of Yourself" was featured on the follow-upwards album Melody Fair. Reportedly, Doris later went into A&R piece of work before being sidelined past mental instability, which may have been a cistron in his being killed when run over past a bus in London in the late 1980s or early 1990s.[2]
Issued as accelerate single from New Routes in October 1969, "Oh Me Oh My ..." represented a radical alter of management for Lulu, who was coming off her best ever UK nautical chart placing at #two with the Eurovision winner "Boom Bang-a-Bang". The move to a more than mature audio with "Oh Me Oh My ..." was unappreciated in the UK where the track barely reached the Meridian fifty. In the United states, "Oh Me Oh My ..." ranked as high every bit #4 in Birmingham, Alabama in November 1969, simply charted nationally as simply a moderate Easy Listening striking at #36. Several performances by Lulu on US television helped pause "Oh Me Oh My ..." into the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1969, and and so buoyed the track as it gradually gained momentum, and so that at the end of February 1970, it became Lulu'south first Top thirty hit since "To Sir with Love". "Oh Me Oh My ..." peaked at #22 that March. In Greenbacks Box it achieved a #xviii peak.
In Australia the Go-Set Peak 40 chart showed "Oh Me Oh My ..." peaking at #33 in January 1970.[3] The RPM 100 chart for Canada ranked "Oh Me Oh My ..." as high equally #xvi in March 1970.[4] That same month the New Zealand Listener Popular-o-meter chart ranked "Oh Me Oh My ..." equally high as #12.[nb 1]
Lulu recorded a translated version of "Oh Me Oh My ..." for release in Italy, entitled "Povera Me"; the track was released in June 1970 to no apparent attention, despite a promotional junket by Lulu that July.
Chart functioning [edit]
| Chart (1970) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Become Prepare) | 33 |
| Canada (RPM nautical chart) | 16 |
| UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[5] | 47 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening[6] | 36 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[7] | 22 |
Aretha Franklin version [edit]
Aretha Franklin cut a version of "Oh Me Oh My (I'thou a Fool For You Infant)" for her 1972 Young, Gifted and Black album which like Lulu's New Routes was produced past Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd. Franklin's commencement studio anthology of new material since Spirit in the Dark in 1970, Young, Gifted and Blackness demonstrated Franklin's increasing penchant for covering pop songs and besides Lulu'due south "Oh Me Oh My..." Franklin gave R&B readings to songs fabricated famous by Dusty Springfield and Dionne Warwick, specifically "A Brand New Me" and "April Fools". "Oh Me Oh My..." was used equally the B-side for the album's pb single "Rock Steady", somewhen receiving enough focus to accomplish #9 on the R&B charts crossing over to #73 Popular.
Tina Arena version [edit]
| "Oh Me, Oh My" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Popular | |||
| Length | 3:fifteen | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Songwriter(southward) | Jim Doris | |||
| Producer(s) | Duck Blackwell, Paul Guardiani | |||
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"Oh Me, Oh My" was remade in 2008 by Tina Arena for her Songs of Love & Loss 2 album recorded at AIR Lyndhurst Hall in London accompanied by conductor Simon Unhurt 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'southward single in digital format on November 8, 2008 by EMI Commonwealth of australia.[8]
Other versions [edit]
"Oh Me Oh My (I'one thousand a Fool For You Baby)" has as well been recorded by Oleta Adams, Beth Hart, Barbara Bricklayer, Beak 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 album "As well Much to Lose", The Raes, B.J. Thomas and Lisa Hartman; the terminal 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 nautical chart, did non reflect sales, rather being a poll compiled from voting coupons sent in by NZ Listener readers.
References [edit]
- ^ Bartlett, Karen (2014). Dusty: an intimate portrait of a musical fable. London: The Robson Press. ISBN978-one-84954-763-5.
- ^ "The Stoics". www.rockingscots.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2002-10-04. Retrieved 2018-09-16 .
- ^ "1970 Charts Index". Get Set . Retrieved 2018-09-sixteen .
- ^ "RPM 100". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2018-09-16 .
- ^ "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com . Retrieved January thirteen, 2022.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Meridian Adult Gimmicky: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 151.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn'due south Tiptop Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Tape Research. p. 521.
- ^ Tina Loonshit Discography. Tina Arena official website. Retrieved on 25 Oct 2008.
External links [edit]
- Lulu - Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You lot Baby) on YouTube
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Me_Oh_My_(I%27m_a_Fool_for_You_Baby)