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Artist: Clovers
Author: Memphis Curtis/Ahmed Ertegun
Label: Atlantic
Year: 1954
Lyric line "If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree" is a 'floating verse' also used by Bessie Smith in Mamma's Got The Blues (1923), by Charlie Poole in If The River Were Whiskey (1930), Carl Perkins in Matchbox, Elmore James in Rollin' And Thumblin' (1959), Lonnie Johnson in St Louis Blues (1960) and later by Noosha Fox (B-side of Electro People).
Covers:
Steve Miller [the first two lines and the title in The Joker; Ahmed Ertegun sued him all right]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors, please let us know by contacting us:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)