My babe
| My babe | |
|---|---|
| Little Walter | |
| publication | 1955 |
| Genre (s) | Blues , Chicago blues |
| Author (s) | Willie Dixon |
| Award (s) | Blues Hall of Fame 2008 |
My Babe is a blues song that Willie Dixon wrote for Little Walter . The single was in 1955 on the Chess-sub-label Checker Records released and is the only number-one hit in the US R & B - Charts , has the Willie Dixon ever written. On the B-side is the instrumental piece Thunderbird ; The publication thus follows Juke's recipe for success of bringing out an instrumental and a sung song together on a single.
General
The piece is based on the traditional gospel song This Train (Is Bound for Glory) , which Sister Rosetta Tharpe made a hit as This Train in 1939. Dixon converted this title from a religious to a secular song by changing the saints' procession to heaven into a play about a girl who can't stand her husband's cheating ( My baby, she don't stand no cheating, my babe, she don't stand none of that midnight creeping ). Ray Charles pioneered the transformation of gospel into secular songs by turning the gospel Jesus Is All the World to Me into his hit I Got a Woman . This track hit the charts just before My Babe .
Charts
My Babe was on the Billboard R&B charts for 19 weeks from March 25, 1955 , nine weeks of which topped it. This made the title one of the most successful of 1955. In 1961 the song was reissued with a female background singer and briefly hit the pop charts.
Awards
In 2008 the song was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame of the Blues Foundation.
Cover versions
There are cover versions of the piece by artists as diverse as Elvis Presley , Dale Hawkins , Chuck Berry , Bo Diddley , Narvel Felts , Sonny Burgess , Cliff Richard , Mickey Gilley , Ricky Nelson , Peter & Gordon , Ronnie Milsap , Conway Twitty , Ramsey Lewis , Grant Green , Mississippi Fred McDowell , Coleman Hawkins , Gene Ammons , The Animals , The Steve Miller Band , Lou Rawls , Ike & Tina Turner , Luther Allison , Big Walter Horton and many more.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B / Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. P. 357.
- ↑ Dirks, Scott; & Komara, Edward M. [ed.] (2006). Encyclopedia of the Blues. Routledge. P. 982. ISBN 0415926998 .