Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)

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"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)"
Side-A label of UK vinyl single
Single by Lulu
from the album New Routes
B-side"Sweep Around Your Own Back Door"
ReleasedNovember 1969 (1969-11)
RecordedMuscle Shoals Sound Studio, Alabama in September 1969
GenreBlue-eyed soul
Length2:46
LabelAtco
Songwriter(s)Jim Doris
Producer(s)Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler
Lulu singles chronology
"Boom Bang-a-Bang"
(1969) 		"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)"
(1969) 		"Hum A Song (From Your Heart)"
(1970)

"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)" is the title of a Top 30 hit single for

English Heart
(2016).

Lulu version

Lulu would later opine of

Melody Fair. Reportedly, Doris subsequently went into A&R work before being sidelined by mental instability, which may have been a factor in his being killed when run over by a bus in London in the late 1980s or early 1990s.[2]

Issued as advance single from New Routes in October 1969, "Oh Me Oh My ..." represented a radical change of direction for Lulu, who was coming off her best ever UK chart placing at #2 with the

Cash Box
it achieved a #18 peak.

In Australia the Go-Set Top 40 chart showed "Oh Me Oh My ..." peaking at #33 in January 1970.[3] The RPM 100 chart for Canada ranked "Oh Me Oh My ..." as high as #16 in March 1970.[4] That same month the New Zealand Listener Pop-o-meter chart ranked "Oh Me Oh My ..." as high as #12.[nb 1]

Lulu recorded a translated version of "Oh Me Oh My ..." for release in Italy, entitled "Povera Me"; the track was released in June 1970 to no apparent attention, despite a promotional junket by Lulu that July.

Chart performance

Chart (1970) Peak
position
Australia (Go Set) 33
Canada (RPM chart) 16
UK Singles (
The Official Charts Company)[5]
 47
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening[6] 36
US Billboard Hot 100[7] 22

Aretha Franklin version

Spirit in the Dark in 1970, Young, Gifted and Black demonstrated Franklin's increasing penchant for covering pop songs and besides Lulu's "Oh Me Oh My..." Franklin gave R&B readings to songs made famous by Dusty Springfield and Dionne Warwick, specifically "A Brand New Me" and "April Fools". "Oh Me Oh My..." was used as the B-side for the album's lead single "Rock Steady
", eventually receiving enough focus to reach #9 on the R&B charts crossing over to #73 Pop.

Tina Arena version

"Oh Me, Oh My"
Single by Tina Arena
from the album Songs of Love & Loss 2
ReleasedNovember 8, 2008
RecordedAIR Lyndhurst Hall, London in July 2008
GenrePop
Length3:15
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)Jim Doris
Producer(s)Duck Blackwell, Paul Guardiani
Tina Arena singles chronology
"
To Sir with Love
"
(2007) 		"Oh Me, Oh My"
(2008) 		"Voici les clés"
(2011)

"Oh Me, Oh My" was remade in 2008 by Tina Arena for her Songs of Love & Loss 2 album recorded at AIR Lyndhurst Hall in London accompanied by conductor Simon Hale and the London Studio Orchestra in July 2008. Arena's version – entitled "Oh Me, Oh My" without the subtitle in parentheses – was issued as the album's single in digital format on November 8, 2008 by EMI Australia.[8]

The Gypsy Queens & Lulu Version

On November 3, 2023, The Gypsy Queens released "Oh Me Oh My", a second single for their album "Reminiscing with Friends", with legendary singer Lulu herself.[9][10][11] The version was produced by multiple

Metropolis Studios in London. The version also features studio musicians such as Dean Parks, James Gadson and Saxophonist Kirk Whalum.[12] It was mastered by Bernie Grundman.[13]

Other versions

"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby)" has also been recorded by

Lisa Hartman
; the last named performed an abbreviated version of the song in the 1981 miniseries Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls.

Notes

  1. ^ The only national hit parade available for New Zealand 1966–1975, the Pop-o-meter chart, did not reflect sales, rather being a poll compiled from voting coupons sent in by NZ Listener readers.

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-84954-763-5
    .
  2. ^ "The Stoics". www.rockingscots.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  3. ^ "1970 Charts Index". Go Set. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  4. ^ "RPM 100". Library and Archives Canada. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  5. ^ "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 151.
  7. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 521.
  8. ^ Tina Arena Discography. Tina Arena official website. Retrieved on 25 October 2008.
  9. ^ "Tony Danza is surprise guest on The Gypsy Queens' third Album - Alongside LULU!". uk.news.yahoo.com. 2023-11-08.
  10. ^ "Tony Danza surprise guest on The Gypsy Queens' third Album - Alongside LULU!". femalefirst.co.uk. 2023-11-08.
  11. ^ "Tony Danza is surprise guest on The Gypsy Queens' third Album - Alongside LULU!". cleburnetimesreview.com. 2023-11-08.
  12. ^ The Gypsy Queens & Lulu "Oh me Oh my" music clip on Youtube
  13. ^ "Tony Danza is surprise guest on The Gypsy Queens's thirds Album -Alongside Lulu!". perthnow.com.au. 2023-11-08.

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