I DON'T KNOW
Created on 07/11/2005Latest update on 12/08/2024
Artist: Cripple Clarence Lofton
Author: Clarence Lofton
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1937
Rent party piano player from Chicago, popular among jazz fans. Variation on his two years older Strut That Thing, with Big Bill Broonzy on guitar (reissued on Yazoo). The Blues Brothers' version was a pure copy of Mabon's, introduced by John Belushi as: "This is a Willie Mabon song also done by Cripple Clarence Lofton". Cripple or not, the latter's version came out 15 years earlier.
Covers:
- 1952:
Willie Mabon [first real big hit for Chess (first released on Parrot)]
- 1953:
Linda Hayes [answer song as Yes I Know]
- 1953:
- 1954:
Annisteen Allen [idem]
- 1955:
Richard Berry [sequel as Next Time]
- 1961:
- 1962:
- 1970:
- 1972:
- 1972:
- 1974:
- 1976:
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- 1997:
- 1998:
