APRON STRINGS

Created on 03/04/2008
Latest update on 09/05/2023

Artist: Billy The Kid
Author: George David Weiss/Aaron Schroeder
Label: Kapp
Year: 1959

B-side I Hardly Know Me was another Weiss/Schroeder composition. Coauthor Aaron Schroeder also wrote Schoolboy Crush, A Big Hunk O' Love and It's Now Or Never. Unissued Sun recording by Curtis Hobock that same year.

Covers:

1959:

Cliff Richard [B-side of Living Doll]

1959:

Drifters

1959:

Jay B. Loyd [for Hi]

1959:

Elvis Presley [in Bad Nauheim medley]

1962:

Johnny Hallyday [as Tout bas, tout bas, tout bas]

1970:

Peggy Sue

1979:

Shakin' Stevens

1988:

Everything But The Girl

Aaron Schroeder offered his stuff to both Elvis and Cliff. The moment one of them bought it, the other one declined. Elvis' take was just a (German) home recording made public.

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