You Don't Love Me (Willie Cobbs Song)

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You Don't Love Me is a blues song by the American musician Willie Cobbs from 1960. Based on an earlier song by Bo Diddley , the piece has been recorded and varied many times by other musicians, for example by the group The Megatons Shimmy Shimmy Walk (1962) or Dawn Penn as You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) "(1994).

history

Cobbs later said that one day he heard a field worker sing "Uh, uh, uh, you don't love me, yes I know" to a haunting melody, after which he wrote the song. But the song She's Fine, She's Mine of Bo Diddley in 1955 is very similar to You Do not Love Me on, both in the text and in the melody and the guitar.

At the time of You Don't Love Me , Cobbs was performing with Eddie Boyd in Arkansas , where the new song was enthusiastically received by the audience. Cobbs turned to Home of the Blues Records in Memphis, Tennessee to get the record label to record. However, it was turned down on the grounds that while it was a good song, he couldn't sing.

Fortunately, two other producers , Billy Lee Riley and Stan Kessler , saw the song's potential. So it came to the recording in the Echo Studio in Memphis for Riley's label Mojo Records. Cobbs sang, Boyd played the piano, and there was also Sammy Lawthorn on guitar, Rico Collins on tenor saxophone, Wilbert Harris on drums and an unknown bassist.

Publications and copyright disputes

The Mojo Records single became an instant local hit in 1960. To reach a wider audience, Riley and Kessler sold the recording to Home of the Blues Records, which Cobbs had previously rejected. Home of the Blues released the single on April 3, 1961 and in turn sold the recording to Vee-Jay Records , which they also released.

Sales prospects were good until Riley appeared as the author of Shimmy Shimmy Walk , an instrumental version of You Don't Love Me released by group The Megatons in 1962. It came to a lawsuit, as a result of which Vee-Jay broke off the advertising for the single, whereupon the piece missed entry into the Billboard charts .

Recordings of other musicians

The Megatons

Louisiana's The Megatons released Shimmy, Shimmy Walk, Part 1 , an instrumental version of You Don't Love Me , in 1962 . The track was broken up into two parts, Part 1 and Part 2. Later distributed by Checker Records , it reached number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Albert King recorded Shimmy, Shimmy Walk for his album Years Gone By in 1969 , where the piece was released as You Don't Love Me (instrumental) .

Junior Wells

Junior Wells recorded the song with Buddy Guy in 1965 as You Don't Love Me Baby for his album Hoodoo Man Blues . They changed the guitar riff slightly and added new lines of text. Junior Wells later re-recorded the piece for his album Coming at You , and Buddy Guy for his album Hold That Plane . The Allman Brothers Band's recording on their 1971 live album At Fillmore East is based on the recording by Junior Wells.

Dawn Penn

The Jamaican singer Dawn Penn took You Do not Love Me on 1967th Were while text and melody of Diddley and Cobbs largely taken, it was recorded in a Rocksteady - Arrangement dressed. In 1994 Penn recorded the song again, this time in a dancehall arrangement and entitled You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) ; it became an international hit that later inspired Rihanna (2005) and Beyoncé Knowles (2010) to re-record.

More shots

In addition to the recordings mentioned above, there have been numerous other recordings of You Don't Love Me by other musicians, mostly the versions of Diddley / Cobbs or Wells / Guy formed the basis. Here is a selection:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willie Cobbs: You Don't Love Me on Allmusic
  2. ↑ Bo Diddley: She's Fine, She's Mine on Allmusic
  3. ↑ The Megatons on Allmusic
  4. ↑ Dawn Penn: You Don't Love me (No No No) on Allmusic
  5. ↑ Sonny & Cher on YouTube
  6. ↑ Gary Walker on YouTube
  7. ↑ Ike & Tina Turner on YouTube