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

Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)
"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)"
Single by Lulu
from the album New Routes
B-side "Sweep Around Your Own Back Door"
Released December 1969 (1969-12)
Format 7-inch single
Recorded Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Alabama in September 1969
Genre Pop
Length 2:46
Label Atco
Writer(s) Jim Doris
Producer 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 a Top 30 hit for Lulu which charted in 1969–70; the song has been most notably remade by Aretha Franklin and Tina Arena.

Contents

Lulu version

"Oh Me Oh My..." was written by Jim Doris who – as Jimmy Doris – had been vocalist-guitarist for the Stoics, a band which formed in Lulu's native Glasgow in the late 1960s and whose membership had included Frankie Miller. Doris contributed another song to "Oh Me Oh My..."'s parent album New Routes, entitled "After All (I Live My Life)", and his composition "Take Good Care of Yourself" was featured on the follow-up album Melody Fair. Reportedly Doris subsequently went into A&R work before being sidelined by mental instability which factored into his being killed when run over by a bus in London in the late 1980s or early 1990s.[1]

The advance single from Lulu's Atco Records debut album New Routes, "Oh Me Oh My...", was released in October 1969. A radical change of direction for Lulu, who was coming off her best ever UK chart placing at #2 with the Eurovision winner "Boom Bang-a-Bang", the move to a more mature sound with "Oh Me Oh My..." was unappreciated in the UK where the track barely reached the Top 50. In the US, "Oh Me Oh My..." ranked as high as #4 in Birmingham, Alabama in November 1969 but nationally charted only as a moderate Easy Listening hit at #36. Several performances by Lulu on US television helped break "Oh Me Oh My..." into the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1969 and then buoy the track as it gradually gained momentum to become Lulu's first Top 30 hit since "To Sir With Love" at the end of February 1970: "Oh Me Oh My..." would peak at #22 that March (Cash Box ranked the track with a #18 peak).

In Australia the Go-Set Top 40 chart ranked "Oh Me Oh My..." with a #33 peak in January 1970. [2] The RPM 100 chart for Canada ranked "Oh Me Oh My..." as high as #16 in March 1970.[1]; that same month the New Zealand Listener Pop-o-meter chart ranked "Oh Me Oh My..." as high as #12.1

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.

  • 1The 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.

Aretha Franklin version

Aretha Franklin cut a version of "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby)" for her 1972 Young, Gifted and Black album which like Lulu's New Routes was produced by Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd. Franklin's first studio album of new material since 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
Released November 8, 2008
Format Music download
Recorded AIR Lyndhurst Hall, London in July 2008
Genre Pop
Length 3:15
Label EMI
Writer(s) Jim Doris
Producer Duck Blackwell, Paul Guardiani
Tina Arena singles chronology
"L'un pour l'autre"
(2008)
"Oh Me, Oh My"
(2008)

"Oh Me, Oh My" was remade in 2008 by Tina Arena for her Songs of Love & Loss 2album 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.[3]

Other versions

"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby)" has also been recorded by Irma Thomas, Oleta Adams, Buster Poindexter, Joe Tex and – as "Oh Me Oh My" – by Ann Austin, Renee Geyer, Rod McKuen, Benny Mardones, the Raes, B.J. Thomas and Lisa Hartman; the last named performed an abbreviated version of the song in the 1981 miniseries Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls.

References

  1. ^ Stoics
  2. ^ 1970
  3. ^ Tina Arena Discography. Tina Arena official website. Retrieved on 25 October 2008.

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