Send me some lovin '

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Send me some lovin '
Cover
Little Richard
publication 1957
length 2:16
Genre (s) Rock 'n' roll , blues
Author (s) Leo Price , John Marascalco
Publisher (s) Venice Music
Label Specialty Records
Award (s) BMI Award
album Little Richard
Cover versions
1963 Sam Cooke
1972 Hank Williams, Jr.

Send Me Some Lovin ' is a rock' n 'roll ballad based on a composition by Leo Price that John Marascalco reworked for rock' n 'roll singer Little Richard in 1956 . The sustained piece, played in a ternary rhythm, consists of a two-chord sequence of stanzas, which is interrupted twice by a bridge . The song is about the longing for an absent, loved one. The song was first released in March 1957 together with Lucille from Specialty Records with the single number 598. Send me some lovin 'reached third place on the American R&B charts and, as a crossover, number 54 on the genre-independent pop charts of Billboard magazine . In the course of his career, Little Richard has recorded the song five more times and brought it for publication on Vee-Jay Records , Modern Records , Okeh Records , K-tel and the Eastworld label. Of the more than 60 cover artists, only Sam Cooke was able to follow the original into the pop charts in 1963. In 1972 the country version of Hank Williams, Jr. hit the American country charts in a duet with Lois Johnson .

Emergence

Leo Price had the title Ain 'That a Shame? For his brother Lloyd Price in 1953 . and got in touch with his record label Specialty Records . There he was able to record a demo version of his composition Wish You Were Here . The piece was based on a slow, triplet-like, minimalist blues that only alternates between the basic chord in C major and the dominant G major. The exact date and the staff involved in the recording are no longer known. With the demo version, the label boss Art Rupe approached the Italian-born songwriter John Marascalco , who had already contributed five songs to the rock 'n' roll repertoire of the most successful specialty artist Little Richard since the beginning of 1956 . For Rupe, the song wasn't "commercial enough" and Marascalco should try to rework it for Little Richard. The songwriter only took over the first verse, added more verses and built in a bridge .

The song was first featured on September 6, 1956 during a recording session at the Master Recorders studio in Los Angeles. Little Richard had got Art Rupe and his producer Bumps Blackwell through that he did not have to record with the studio band in New Orleans, as he did with his first three singles , but that his own live band The Upsetters should come into play. They played under the direction of Rupe and Blackwell and in the presence of the songwriter Marascalco Nathaniel Douglas on guitar, Olsie Robinson on bass, Clifford Burks, Wilbert Smith and Grady Gaines on tenor saxophones, Jewell Grant on baritone saxophone and Charles Connor on drums. Of the at least nine takes , two almost complete recordings have been preserved, but they did not meet the requirements of the producers. Specialty archivist Billy Vera judged the recording as "a perfect example that a great live band that can give intoxicating concerts is too undisciplined for studio work." A good month later on October 16, 1956, the title was therefore recorded again, this time in proven line-up in Cosimo Matassa's J&M studio. In addition to Matassa and Bumps Blackwell at the mixing desks, Roy Montrell was booked for guitar, Frank Fields for bass, Lee Allen for tenor saxophone, Alvin Tyler for baritone saxophone and Earl Palmer for drums. This version was mastered for release on single.

Musical structure

Title page of a sheet music edition from 1965

Send Me Some Lovin ' is a slow ballad in C major. The stanzas consist of two bars of tonic (C major), four bars of dominant (G major), with the third bar changing to the seventh chord , and again two bars of tonic, of which the second only sounds for the first beat and otherwise there is an instrumental break . A striking instrumentation are the chords played in eighth triplets on the piano. The saxophones also play a continuous riff , which oscillates on the quarter notes between the root note of the respective chord and the fifth above , with the root note on the previous third eighth of the triplet an ascending minor second , the fifth a major descending from the sixth Second .

The first stanza has four verses, which are sung in the sense of upbeats up to the last stressed syllable before the first beat of the first, third, fifth and seventh bars. The second stanza follows immediately with the same structure.

This instrumentation and way of singing is also used in the following eight-bar bridge , which begins with two bars of subdominant (F major), continues with two bars of tonic (C major), then changes to two bars of double dominant (D major), in order to again build up a functional tension for the change to the new beginning of the verse on two bars of the dominant (G major) with a three-stroke break . The third verse is followed by the bridge chord sequence, over which the saxophone is solos. The piece ends with a repetition of the third stanza and two common, instrumental closing chords.

contents

The song is about the longing for a loved one who is addressed by phone, letter or in absentia. Over the first two stanzas, the narrator's desire to have a token of love sent increases: first he wishes for " some lovin '" , then a "photo" (your picture) and finally asks for it him in the bridge for " your kisses" . In the third verse, repeated once, the singer is back to himself and regrets the " days are so lonely " and " nights are so blue " while he waits for his beloved.

Little Richard's girlfriend at the time, Lee Angel, interpreted the song in an interview with Richard's biographer Charles White as a very personal declaration of love: “He had planned to release his new record Send Me Some Lovin ' nationwide on this special day. That night, during the show, he explained to me and 7,000 other people that I was his fiancée and that we were going to get married. That's how I found out. He dedicated Send Me Some Lovin ' to me alone. ”Nothing came of the wedding, however.

publication

Send Me Some Lovin 'was released with Lucille as Little Richard's sixth specialty single with the number 598 in February 1957. In the same year, licensed editions followed by London Records in Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Italy and Japan. A little later editions came on the market in Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. Specialty also released six EPs with material from Little Richard, on the last of which Little Richard Vol. 3 the song was compiled with Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo , The Girl Can't Help It and Heeby-Jeebies . It was not until December 1958 that the title made it onto the track list of the album Little Richard - Vol. 2 .

Leo Price's demo was released in 1992.

After the height of his career with Specialty Records in the mid-1950s, Little Richard was under contract with several record companies from the 1960s. Here he played his well-known repertoire again and adapted it to the musical tastes of the respective decade. For Vee-Jay Records he recorded the album Little Richard's Greatest Hits in Los Angeles in 1964, together with an unknown studio accompaniment , which was released under the number 1124 and contained Send Me Some Lovin ' . At the end of 1965 he switched to Modern Records , where the album The Wild and Frantic Little Richard was released in 1967 as Modern LP-1003 , which he had recorded together with the newly formed Upsetters in the Domino Club in Atlanta. At the time of this release, Little Richard was already under contract with Okeh Records . On January 25, 1967, Columbia Recording Studio led by producer Larry Williams with Billy Preston on organ, Johnny Guitar Watson and Glen Willings on guitars, Eddie Fletcher on bass, Wade Jackson on drums, and Frank McCrary and Boogie Daniels on the saxophones the album Little Richard's Greatest Hits - Recorded Live! which also contained the title. Another recording took place in 1976 in the Jack Clement Studio in Nashville, where Little Richard was supported by Denis Brownside on piano, Eddie Bayers on drums, Jack Jackson on bass and Paul Wormley and Pat Patnik on guitars. The title of the album K-tel 462 Little Richard Live! like its liner notes, suggests a live recording, but this cannot be confirmed when listening to it. In 1992 Little Richard recorded his successful material for the Eastworld label one last time with the support of guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka .

The demo version by Leo Price also appeared for the first time in 1992 on the specialty sampler Creole Kings of New Orleans under the official title Send Me Some Lovin ' . The original title Wish You Were Here has only survived as an announcement by the studio management on the take.

Cover versions

Send Me Some Lovin ' has been covered over 60 times. There are Danish, Serbo-Croatian and German-language adaptations, so that in addition to Price and Marascalco, other copywriters can claim authorship.

Rockin 'Sidney on Jin 45-164
Sam Cooke on RCA Victor 8129
Hank Williams Jr. and Lois Johnson on MGM 14356
John Lennon on a Belgian edition
  • 1975 - John Lennon on the album Rock 'n' Roll , Apple PCS 7169
  • 1975 - Bamses Venner as Send mig et minde (Danish) on the album Bamses Venner , KMF JKLP 654
  • 1977 - Scandinavians on the album Puss & Kram , Polydor 2379 143
  • 1978 - Sleepy LaBeef on the 1977 album Rockabilly , Sun 1004
  • 1979 - Rudolf Rock & Die Schocker as longing for love (German) on the album Rock 'n' Roll Revival Show , Star-Club 9198 028
  • 1979 - Chas & Dave on Don't Give a Monkey's ... album , Rockney EMC 3303
  • 1979 - Nalle as Send mig lidt elskov (Danish) on the album Rock 'N'alle Roll , Sonet SLP 1739
  • 1982 - Crazy Cavan & The Rhythm Rockers on the album Bop N Roll Party , Big Beat 1004/1005
  • 1984 - Joe Bravo , JM 102
  • 1992 - Otis Redding on the album Remember Me (22 Previously Unissued Tracks) , Stax SCD-8572-2
  • 1992 - Warren Storm on the album Night after Night , Jin 9036
  • 1992 - Sherry Holly on the album Looking Through Buddy's Eyes , Cloud 9 Records, EAN 07 6234 84514 2 4
  • 1993 - The Black Dynamites on the album The Black Dynamites: Best of (1960-1964) , Sam Sam Music CDHL 1009
  • 1993 - The Blues Band in the Swamp Medley : Honest I Do / Send Me Some Lovin ' / Rainin' in My Heart on the album Homage , Essential ESSCD202
  • 1995 - The Cadillac Band on the album 15 Years: Live On Stage , Croatia CD D 5068952
  • 1996 - Danny Everett on the album Indo Dreams , Rarity C192526
  • 1997 - Belô Velloso on the album Um Segundo , Velas 11 - V255
  • 1999 - Kashief Lindo and Jigsy King on Heavy Beat 168
  • 1999 - Spooky Tooth on the album Cross Purpose , Ruf 1030
  • 1999 - The East & West Rockers on the album Keep On Indo Rockin '- Vol.1 , Rarity C192583
  • 2000 - Carlos Segarra on the album Rock & Roll Club , AZ-114 CD
  • 2000 - The Kentucky Boys on the album Live at the Rockabilly-Bop-Night Heidelberg , Brainless
  • 2004 - The Arons on Jack's Beat Records Anthology 1 album , Frost 0204
  • 2006 - Hot Chickens on the album Speed ​​King , SFAX CD011
  • 2010 - Jimmie Vaughan on the album Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites , Shout! Factory 826663-12106
  • 2011 - Lasse Stefanz on the album Cuba Libre , Mariann 5052498-6001-2-0
  • 2011 - Sidney Butler on the album A Taste of Sam Cooke , Not On Label EAN794465928626
  • 2015 - The Unkool Hillbillies on the album Merry Christmas , Unkool 201501

Importance, Criticism, and Success

Chart placements
Explanation of the data
Singles
Little Richard
  US 54 04/06/1957 (12 weeks)
  R&B 3 04/06/1957 (11 weeks)
Sam Cooke
  US 13 01/26/1963 (9 weeks)
  R&B 2 02/09/1963 (10 weeks)
Hank Williams, Jr. & Lois Johnson
  Country 14th 08/01/1972 (14 weeks)

Send Me Some Lovin ' is "Richard's greatest performance of a blues ballad," according to Billy Vera. Due to the success and the numerous cover interpretations, the song is considered the standard of the genre. Specialty 598 have been sold over two million times. The gold status was not certified by a gold record , which was only awarded centrally by the Recording Industry Association of America from 1958 . But both sides of the record entered the American Billboard charts. Send Me Some Lovin ' stayed in the black rhythm and blues charts for eleven weeks with a top position at number 3 in the spring of 1957 54th place remained. This made the record his sixth hit single in a row since Little Richard's debut Tutti Frutti on Specialty in 1955. The song was awarded an in-house prize by the collecting society BMI .

The ballad managed in a special way to go along with the transformation of the Afro-American mainstream from rhythm and blues to soul . The version of Sam Cooke produced by Luigi Creatore and Hugo Peretti reached number 2 in the R&B market in 1963 and remained in the charts for ten weeks. His nine-week crossover in the pop segment led him to 13th place. Tom Scocca found that Cooke sang the song with his “beautiful, immortal soul-full voice” “without even trying to reach Little Richard's bar”. Using this cover version, Rolling Stone magazine explains the great influence that Little Richard had on the development of soul music: “You can hear the traces of his caressed consonants and ornate vowels in [Sam] Cooke's velvety-soft workmanship and when he does When the intensity picks up, it looks like he's creating the blueprint for the soulful, shabby pleading style [Otis] Redding perfected. ”In 1972, Hank Williams, Jr. duet with Lois Johnson for fourteen weeks with a top spot 14 in the country charts.

Extensive Beatles literature sheds light on the version of John Lennon , who recorded it for his album Rock 'n' Roll , released in 1975 . It was the second part of a Sam Cooke / Little Richard medley, the other title was Bring It On Home to Me . Lennon was familiar with the Little Richard version, but based on Cooke's version from 1963. Lennon's vocals borrow from Buddy Holly's version from 1957. The recordings for the medley Bring It On Home to Me / Send Me Some Lovin ' took place on October 22, 1974 at the Record Plant Studios in New York. In addition to Lennon (vocals and guitar), there were Klaus Voormann (electric bass), Jesse Ed Davis (guitar), Eddie Mottau (guitar), Kenneth Ascher (piano), Jim Keltner (drums), Arthur Jenkins (percussion), Joseph Temperley ( Saxophone), Dennis Morouse (saxophone) and Frank Vicari (saxophone). An alternative version of the medley appeared on the John Lennon Anthology in 1998 , among other things the brass section is missing .

Little Richard added Send Me Some Lovin ' to his live repertoire, which he played over and over again throughout his long career. At concerts at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn , New York, the organizer Alan Freed whispered the song title from the backstage area as his favorite number; a wish that Little Richard was happy to comply with. For Leo Price the co-authorship was the greatest success of his career, in which he was at least able to make another contribution to Little Richard's repertoire with Can't Believe You Wanna Leave . John Marascalco was able to continue his successful collaboration with Little Richard with the record. He found it remarkable that he was allowed to revise a song by Lloyd Price's brother, as he had considered Lloyd's debut single and million- seller Lawdy Miss Clawdy from 1952 to be the best record he had ever heard in college: "When I could ever write a song like this if I were a happy Italian! "

Individual evidence

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