Artist: Dan Penn
Author: Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham
Label: MGM
Year: 1965
B-side of Is A Bluebird Blue, version with strings and a female chorus which failed to chart. He recut it in '94 as I'm Your Puppet, while his delicate demo was released on his ACE comp The Fame Recordings ('12).
Covers:
James & Bobby Purify [as I'm Your Puppet; top 10 US, top 5 R&B, hit UK & NL in '76; recorded at Fame in Muscle Shoals with Dan Penn at the controls]
Box Tops [also produced by Dan Penn]
Mickey Gilley [hit C&W]
J.J. Cale [vocal: Spooner Oldham]
John Legend [in film Soul Men]
Cliff Richard [with Percy Sledge]
In the 1966 line-up of James & Bobby Purify, the Bobby was Robert Lee Dickey, in the '76 line-up his name was Ben Moore.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)