Artist: Bo Diddley
Author: Ellas McDaniel
Label: Checker
Year: 1955
B-side of Diddley Daddy.
Covers:
Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards & Butch Cage [the first as You Don't Love Me (uncredited); Folklyric field recording in Zachary, LA (Butch Cage's home)]
Willie Cobbs [idem on Billy Lee Riley's Mojo label; recorded in the Airway Recording Studio in Memphis with Cobbs' band from Hughes, Arkansas; he was but a local hero who reinvested all his royalties on this song in new recordings, a nightclub and finally a restaurant; while part of this money belongs to Bo Diddley]
Megatons [instr. as Shimmy Shimmy Walk; crediting Billy Lee Riley]
Louisiana Red [as I Am Louisiana Red]
Little Walter [as Up The Line]
Birds [with Ron Wood as You Don't Love Me]
T.S. McPhee [as Shimmy Shimmy Walk]
Pretty Things [only other version as She's Fine, She's Mine]
Junior Wells [as You Don't Love Me, Baby]
Gary Walker [hit UK]
Bob Dylan [tune in Obviously 5 Believers]
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers [as You Don't Love Me]
Dawn Penn [as You Don't Love Me (No, No, No), remix n°3 UK in '94]
Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Stephen Stills [idem on Super Session]
Kaleidoscope [idem]
Booker T. & The MG's [idem]
Magic Sam [idem]
James & Bobby Purify [idem]
Albert King [as Shimmy Shimmy Walk]
Frank Zappa [violin intro and foundation for Willie The Pimp]
Allman Brothers Band [as You Don't Love Me Live At The Fillmore in medley with Soul Serenade; influenced by Junior Wells's version]
Prince Jazzbo [as Fool For Love inna Dawn Penn vein]
Big Youth [as Screaming Target]
Black Uhuru [as No No No]
Otis Rush [with Eric Clapton and Luther Allison]
Gary Moore [Live at Montreux]
Willie Cobbs [on his first album under his own name for Rooster Records]
Gales Brothers [as You Don't Love Me]
Beyoncé [all as You Don't Love Me]
Blues standard since Willie Cobbs, who indeed worked it out consistently. Although the guitar part, title and Cobbs' vocal line are clearly there since Bo's original. Settled in court. (see also Hey Bo Diddley). On the sideline Little Walter's Up The Line made school with Bacon Fat, Robben Ford, John Hammond, Omar & The Howlers, Paul Orta, Rod Piazza and Roomful Of Blues. Willie Cobbs' You Don't Love Me is not to be confused with Bo Diddley's. Indeed, it's complicated.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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