BABY, LET'S PLAY HOUSE
Created on 14/06/2002Latest update on 03/01/2023
Artist: Arthur Gunter
Author: Arthur Gunter
Label: Excello
Year: 1954
Like an uptempo answer song to Eddy Arnold's C&W hit I Wanna Play House With You ('51), written by Cy Coben.
Covers:
- 1955:
- 1955:
Buddy Holly [as I Wanna Play House With You]
- 1955:
- 1956:
Johnny Burnette Trio [as Oh Baby Babe]
- 1957:
Quarrymen [recorded the day John met Paul and what strikes the most: John sounds like John since day one]
- 1961:
- 1965:
Beatles [opening lines from Run For Your Life (Rubber Soul) are borrowed verbatim: "I'd rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man"]
- 1970:
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- 1976:
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- 1979:
- 1979:
- 1979:
- 1981:
- 2005:
- 2006:
- 2015:
- 2020:
The song that brought Elvis under the attention of Col. Tom Parker. The Colonel had managed Eddy Arnold before, that's why. Gunter (and Arnold) sang: "You may get religion", Presley sang: "You may get a pink Cadillac". Made him different, to say the least.
