SHAME SHAME SHAME

Created on 28/10/2001
Latest update on 15/04/2024

Artist: Smiley Lewis
Author: Kenyon Hopkins/Ruby Fisher
Label: Imperial
Year: 1956

At the time also featured in the controversial Elia Kazan film Baby Doll.

Covers:

1979:

Shakin' Stevens [credited to Jimmy McCracklin]

1983:

Red Beans & Rice

1985:

Barrence Whitfield [also credited to McCracklin (shame shame!)]

1994:

Big Joe & The Dynaflows [as Shame Shame]

2001:

Mike Sanchez

2003:

Roomful Of Blues

2004:

Aerosmith

2010:

Mitch Woods

Not to be confused, neither with that other Shame Shame Shame, n°1 R&B for Shirley & Company (see there), nor with Jimmy Reed's Shame Shame Shame for Vee-Jay (see there). Jimmy McCracklin's ('62) is yet another red herring.

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