The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

Artist: Sam Cooke
Author: Sam Cooke
Label: RCA
Year: 1964

On lp Ain't That Good News, just released when he was murdered.

Covers:

1965:: Ike & Tina Turner
1965:: Supremes
1965:: Rolling Stones
1965:: King Curtis
1965:: L.C. Cooke
1965:: Solomon Burke [as Got To Get You Off My Mind, crediting himself, his wife and his mother; n°1 R&B, top 40 US; written the DAY he heard Sam Cooke was murdered, the same day his wife mailed him her intention to divorce]
1966:: Buddy Greco
1966:: George Jackson & Dan Greer
1967:: Aretha Franklin
1967:: Dusty Springfield
1967:: Willie Hightower [same melody in I Love You, Yes I Do, crediting Bobby Robinson]
1968:: James Cotton [as Got To Get You Off My Mind]
1969:: Tyrone Davis [as Gotta Get You Off My Mind]
1970:: Kim Weston [as Got To Get You Off My Mind]
1972:: Persuasions
1972:: Joe Haywood [as I Love You, Yes I Do]
1974:: Phoebe Snow
1976:: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes [as Got To Get You Off My Mind]
1977:: Rita Coolidge
1986:: Ted Hawkins
1988:: Arthur Prysock [as Got To Get You Off My Mind]
1991:: Eddie Hinton
1991:: Nona Hendryx & Billy Vera [as Got To Get You Off My Mind]
1992:: Journey
1992:: Amos Garrett [as Got To Get You Off My Mind]
2010:: Huey Lewis & The News [as Got To Get You Off My Mind]
2018:: Van Morrison [as Gotta Get You Off My Mind, along with a second Sam Cooke cover on his album The Prophet Speaks]

Not to be confused with Lightnin' Hopkins' Good Times (covered by Jeffrey Lee Pierce), Jerry Butler's, Gene Chandler's, Eric Burdon's (see there), Cliff Richard's, Chic's (see there), Matt Bianco's and the one by INXS & Jimmy Barnes.

GOOD TIMES

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