LOVEY DOVEY

Created on 20/03/2002
Latest update on 02/03/2024

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:

1959:

Clyde McPhatter

1961:

Buddy Knox

1967:

Bunny Sigler

1968:

Otis & Carla

1973:

Steve Miller [the first two lines and the title in The Joker; Ahmed Ertegun sued him all right]

1988:

Tony Terry

1995:

Davell Crawford

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