Artist: Big Maybelle
Author: Dave Curlee Williams/Sonny David
Label: Okeh
Year: 1955
Orchestra conducted by a young Quincy Jones.
Covers:
Roy Hall [coauthor under his alias Sonny David]
Commodores [pop band on Dot; unrelated with Lionel Richie's former band]
Jerry Lee Lewis [n°1 R&B and C&W]
Pirates avec Dany Logan [as Mon petit ange]
Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers [pre Beatles]
Larry Williams [with Johnny Guitar Watson]
Big Star [on third album recorded in '75]
Gary Busey & Jerry Zaremba [in film The Buddy Holly Story]
All I Have To Do Is Dream by The Everly Brothers and Jerry Lee Lewis' version of Whole Lotta Shakin' were the only two songs reaching the top position on both the C&W and R&B charts; that is if you take Elvis out of the picture of course.
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)