I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU

Created on 12/03/2003
Latest update on 30/01/2024

Artist: Bobby Bland
Author: Brook Benton
Label: Duke
Year: 1959

N°2 R&B. At the time, Brook Benton was better known as a composer than performer, writing A Lover's Question for Clyde McPhatter, Looking Back for Nat King Cole and The Stroll for The Diamonds.

Covers:

1969:

O.V. Wright

1973:

Margie Joseph

1979:

Junior Wells [with B.B. King]

1980:

Doug Sahm

1981:

Lonnie Brooks

1981:

Elvis Costello [outtake Almost Blue sessions; on bonus cd]

1983:

Ronnie Earl

1988:

Irma Thomas

1990:

Ray Charles

1993:

Van Morrison

1995:

Tav Falco

1999:

Mark Lanegan [album title track]

1999:

Etta James

2000:

Billy Price

2001:

Big Time Sarah

2008:

Mick Hucknall

2009:

Cyril Neville

2010:

Gil Scott-Heron

2012:

Joe Bonamassa [vocal: Beth Hart]

2012:

Drake ft. Rihanna [as Take Care; same lyrics]

An eponymous Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham composition was first recorded by Dan for FAME in '65, covered by George Soule in '73.

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