LOVESICK BLUES
Created on 13/03/2001Latest update on 02/03/2024
Artist: Elsie Clark
Author: Irving Mills/Cliff Friend
Label: Okeh
Year: 1922
First published as I've Got The Love-sick Blues and introduced by vaudeville singer Anna Chandler. In partnership with Duke Ellington, coauthor Irving Mills wrote It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, Mood Indigo and Caravan. The other coauthor Cliff Friend sold his share for $500 during the Depression. See also under Wah-Hoo!
Covers:
- 1922:
- 1922:
- 1924:
Emmett Miller [for OKeh (Ralph Peer)]
- 1928:
Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers [with the Dorsey Brothers; the version Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers knew, inspiring the latter to start yodeling]
- 1939:
Rex Griffin [example for Hank Williams a decade later]
- 1949:
Hank Williams [n°1 C&W, 16 weeks in a row; influenced by Rex Griffin's version, lyric changes included]
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Frank Ifield [n°1 UK]
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Eddy Mitchell [as Je ne pense qu'a l'amour]
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- 2001:
Ryan Adams [on Hank Williams tribute Timeless]
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