I'M LIVING GOOD

Created on 09/02/2006
Latest update on 15/03/2024

Artist: Ovations
Author: Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham
Label: Goldwax
Year: 1965

Recorded at American, Dan's first song there. Suited lead singer Louis Williams's Sam Cooke-styled delivery well. Re-recorded in '69 with horns & vocal overdubs while skipping the spoken introduction.

Covers:

1965:

George Jackson

1971:

Arthur Conley

1999:

Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham [autobiographical to say the least: royalties rolling in like rainwater makes they might just as well go out fishing every day, which is pretty much what both of these songwriters have been doing lately; Dan's demo came out on his ACE comp The Fame Recordings ('12)]

2004:

Beautiful South

2015:

Julian Dawson [on cd Living Good]

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