BAD PENNY BLUES
Created on 14/06/2002Latest update on 01/11/2023
Artist: Humphrey Lyttelton Band
Author: Humphrey Lyttelton
Label: Parlophone
Year: 1956
Early successful British blues recording (complete with full blown boogie woogie piano part) produced by Joe Meek, assisted by George Martin. Top 20 UK.
Covers:
- 1968:
Beatles [piano solo in Lady Madonna; n°1 UK]
- 1968:
Fats Domino [idem; recognized the Fats Domino elements in the Beatles' song; The Beatles were Fats Domino fans]
- 1969:
Booker T. & The MG's [idem]
- 1971:
Elvis Presley [idem; informal recording]
- 1982:
Flying Pickets [idem]
- 1986:
- 2003:
Elkie Brooks [with Humphrey Lyttelton]
When John or Paul asked for a New Orleans piano in Lady Madonna, producer George Martin automatically came up with Humphrey Lyttelton's Bad Penny Blues, a boogie woogie piano track he coproduced in the fifties.
