FANNIE MAE

Created on 21/01/2002
Latest update on 28/09/2018

Artist: Buster Brown
Author: Bobby Robinson/Clarence Lewis/Waymon Glasco
Label: Fire
Year: 1959

N°1 R&B. Uses the intro of Carl Perkins' That's Right ('57).

Covers:

1960:

Elmore James [same horn motiv (and producer) in Early One Morning]

1961:

Joey Dee & The Starliters

1965:

Righteous Brothers

1965:

Rolling Stones [musical influence on The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man without proper credits; cut in the Chess Studio where they also cut a version as Fanny Mae]

1965:

Beach Boys [inspiration for Help Me Rhonda; n°1 US]

1966:

Mighty Sam McClain

1967:

Canned Heat

1968:

Steve Miller Band

1971:

Jimmy Lee Riley

1976:

Southside Johnny

1983:

Jaco Pastorius

1993:

Holmes Brothers

1995:

Bryan Koenig

2004:

Gary US Bonds [with Southside Johnny]

2010:

Coco Montoya

2011:

Levon Helm [at the Ryman; vocal & harmonica: Sammy Davis]

Contact


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