Artist: Eleventh Hour
Author: Bob Crewe/Kenny Nolan
Label: 20th Century
Year: 1974
Studio band with coauthor Kenny Nolan. On their only lp. No big deal. In Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Blanche Dubois addressed her suitor Mitch with a "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir? Vous ne comprennez pas? Ah! Quel dommage!"
Covers:
Labelle [n°1 US & NL; produced by Allen Toussaint, intrigued by the New Orleans lyrics]
Nanette Workman [Canadian in French]
Gilla [as Willst du mit mir schlafen gehn; first success for Frank Farian]
Jean-Paul et Claude-Alain [as Moi j'veux bien tut tut avec toi]
Strangers [as 't Jaar Van De Vrouw]
Daddy K [as Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?]
Christina Aguilera-Lil' Kim-Mya & Pink [in film Moulin Rouge; n°1 US & UK, n°2 NL]
Angie Stone [intro Labelle sampled in Soul Insurance]
Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan also cowrote My Eyes Adored You (Frankie Valli), the n°1 in the Hot 100 one week before Labelle's Lady Marmalade. And there are more originals Crewe composed: Silhouettes, Daddy Cool, Silence Is Golden, Let's Hang On, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore and Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)