I'M A LOVER, NOT A FIGHTER

Created on 09/02/2006
Latest update on 30/01/2024

Artist: Lazy Lester
Author: J.D. Miller
Label: Excello
Year: 1957

On cd version of Authentic (Excello - '63) R&B, with eight extra tracks, including the original Lover Not A Fighter instead of the '58 single version. Authentic R&B was a popular VA-album circulating among British beat bands. That's where The Stones found I'm A King Bee (see there), The Kinks and The Yardbirds Got Love If You Want It. (see also: I Hear You Knocking and Naggin')

Covers:

1964:

Kinks

1972:

Dave Edmunds

1983:

Totta's Bluesband

1993:

Flamin' Groovies

1994:

Cub Koda

1995:

Webb Wilder & The Nashvegans

1999:

Headcoats Sect [with Billy Childish]

2000:

Downliners Sect [who'd introduced dearstalker hats in British R&B, also favored by Billy Childish and his Headcoats Sect (with Downliners members)]

Not to be confused with the Skeeter Davis song by that name.

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