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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: I'm a... not a .... |
| Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:38:30 -0400 |
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Then there's Jerry Reed's "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" from 1956. If memory
serves, it was on Capital, #F3381.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Coxe" <audities@gmail.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: I'm a... not a ....
> Jim McG wrote:
>> In a message dated 9/8/2006 4:03:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
>>
>> Richard Keith wrote a song with the title "I'm A Lover Not A Fighter"
>> back in
>> 1962 which pre-dates Jackson. I dare the phrase pre-dates even that.
>>
>> The Kinks had it as the title of song too (seventies I believe).
>>
>> The Kinks' "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" was a cover of Lazy Lester's 1958
>> Excello single, written by J.D. Miller. The Lazy Lester version
>> positively
>> stomps the Kinks.
>
> Yup, though Dave Edmunds version on Rockpile ain't half bad, and he
> made Lester's I Hear You Knockin' pretty famous too.
>
> - michael
>
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