DUKE OF EARL

Created on 02/11/2002
Latest update on 19/03/2022

Artist: Dukays
Author: Earl Edwards/Eugene Dixon/Berniece Williams
Label: Nat
Year: 1961

Recorded for but never released on Nat. Coauthor Eugene Dixon couldn't get away with it unless under an alias: he became Gene Chandler for Vee-Jay.

Covers:

1961:

Gene Chandler [n°1 US]

1962:

Pearlettes [as Duchess Of Earl; answer song]

1962:

Upfronts [answer song as I Stopped The Duke Of Earl; feat. Barry White]

1962:

Dorothy Berry [answer song The Girl Who Stopped The Duke Of Earl; Richard Berry's wife]

1966:

Robert Parker

1971:

Sha Na Na

1973:

Curtis Mayfield

1975:

Cornell Campbell [reggae]

1979:

Darts

1982:

Nylons

1986:

New Edition

1991:

Cypress Hill [Gene Chandler's refrain sampled under Hand On The Pump]

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