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Artist: Johnny Otis Show
Author: Johnny Otis
Label: Capitol
Year: 1958
Top 10 US, top 5 R&B. With Earl Palmer on drums ripping off the Bo Diddley beat. Johnny once had Bo over for dinner and Bo said to him, half jokingly: "Hey motherfucker, what were you doin' takin' my song?" Then Johnny said: "Bo, you ever heard Hambone?" (see there). Also there's a similarity in rhythm with Mama Had A Chicken by Count Otis Matthew's West Oakland House Stompers where Johnny had been part of as a teenager.
Covers:
Cliff Richard [B-side of Fall In Love With You]
Chaussettes Noires [as Je reviendrai bientôt]
Strangeloves [as Hand Jive]
Duck & The Bear [with Duane Allman as Hand Jive]
King Biscuit Boy [with The Meters]
Richard Thompson [in medley with Not Fade Away]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)