RELEASE ME
Created on 28/11/2001Latest update on 12/04/2024
Artist: Eddie 'piano' Miller
Author: Eddie Miller/Dub Williams/Robert Gene Yount
Label: 4-Star/Rainbow
Year: 1949
B-side of Motel Time. Full title: Release Me (And Let Me Love Again). Sometimes called "the world's most performed country song". Written in '46.
Covers:
- 1953:
Jimmie Heap & The Melody Masters [top 5 C&W; vocal: Perk Williams]
- 1954:
Kitty Wells [top 10 C&W]
- 1954:
Ray Price [top 10 C&W]
- 1954:
- 1960:
Jivin' Gene & The Jokers [inspired Esther Phillips]
- 1962:
Esther Phillips [n°1 R&B]
- 1963:
- 1966:
- 1967:
- 1967:
Engelbert Humperdinck [n°1 UK & B]
- 1968:
- 1968:
Jerry Lee Lewis [and in 2010]
- 1969:
Clifton Chenier [as a zydeco waltz]
- 1970:
- 1970s:
John Holt [reggae version]
- 1971:
Roger Ruskin Spear & His Giant Kinetic Wardrobe [member of the Bonzo Dog Band]
- 1973:
- 1977:
Yvette Horner [in Nashville]
- 1978:
Urbanus [in sketch De Verloving]
- 1989:
Def Leppard [B-side of Rocket]
- 1996:
- 2012:
Lyle Lovett [title track cd; duet with k.d. lang]
Without Engelbert Humperdinck's Release Me, The Beatles would have held the UK top position with all of their singles between From Me To You in '63 and The Ballad Of John And Yoko in '69.
