NOTHIN' SHAKIN (BUT THE LEAVES ON THE TREES)

Created on 30/01/2003
Latest update on 31/01/2024

Artist: Eddie Fontaine
Author: Eddie Fontaine/Cirino Colacrai/Diane Charlotte Lampert/Jack Cleveland
Label: Sunbeam
Year: 1958

Real name: Eddie Reardon, rockabilly singer from Queens, NY. Got a part in rock 'n roll film The Girl Can't Help It and was Fonzie's father in tv-series Happy Days. A new version on Argo charted briefly.

Covers:

1963:

Beatles [BBC recording; vocal: George]

1963:

Linda Gail Lewis

1964:

Billy Fury [as Nothin' Shakin']

1968:

George Jones

1977:

Dr. Feelgood

Amos Milburn's (1950s) is a different song. So is Ain't Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves) by Dallas Frazier/A.L. Owens, first recorded by Connie Smith ('66 - RCA) and covered by George Jones ('66), Dallas Frazier ('67), Billy Crash Craddock (top 10 C&W in '72) and Commander Cody ('70s). Then there's still another Ain't Nothing Shakin', by Jess & Mae Robinson, first cut by Johnny Otis ('50) and covered by Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers ('04).

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