My Babe

1955

My Babe is a Blue song Willie Dixon wrote for Little Walter. The single was released in 1955 on the Chess- Checker Records sub-label and is the only number -one hit in the U.S. R & B charts, the Willie Dixon has ever written. On the B - side is the instrumental piece Thunderbird; so that the publication follows the success of Juke to release an instrumental and sung a song together on a single.

General

The piece is based on the traditional gospel song This Train (Is Bound For Glory ), Sister Rosetta Tharpe as the This Train 1939 made ​​it a hit. Dixon walked this item from a religious to a secular song to by in the sky in a piece changes the train of the saints about a girl who cheats her husband can not stand (My baby, she do not stand no cheating, my babe, she do not stand none of did midnight creeping ). Pioneering work in the conversion of Gospel in secular songs made ​​Ray Charles, by making his hit I Got a Woman from the Gospel Jesus Is All the World to Me. This piece reached the charts shortly before My Babe.

Charts

My Babe was 19 weeks of 25 March 1955, on the Billboard R & B charts, including nine weeks at the first place. Thus, the title of one of the most successful of the year 1955. 1961 was the song with a female backing singer was reissued and came up short in the pop charts.

Awards

2008, the song in the Blues Hall of Fame Blues Foundation was incorporated.

Cover versions

Cover versions of the piece there by artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Dale Hawkins, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Narvel Felts, Sonny Burgess, Cliff Richard, Mickey Gilley, Ricky Nelson, Peter & Gordon, Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty, Ramsey Lewis, Grant Green, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Coleman Hawkins, Gene Ammons, The Animals, The Steve Miller Band, Lou Rawls, Ike & Tina Turner, Luther Allison, Big Walter Horton and many more.