SHAPE I'M IN, The

Created on 05/01/2006
Latest update on 26/10/2023

Artist: Kenny Lee Martin
Author: Lee Cathy/Otis Blackwell
Label: Decca
Year: 1958

B-side of The Rock Keeps Rollin' On. Reissued on the Let's Flat Git It series (Charly).

Covers:

1959:

Johnny Restivo [15 at the time; one-hit-wonder; cut at the end of a Carole King recording session, with Paul Simon on guitar]

1970:

Jeremy Spencer [Fleetwood Mac's rockabilly solo, accompanied by the rest of the band minus Peter Green]

1983:

Dave Edmunds

1985:

Shakin' Stevens

1989:

John Spencer [also in Dutch as Het Heeft Geen Zin]

2015:

Playtones

2023:

Van Morrison

Not to be confused, neither with The Band's song ('70), covered by Bo Diddley ('71) and Bob Dylan ('74), nor with The ARC Angels' The Shape I'm In (see there).

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