Australian singles chart:
Oh Me Oh My entered the Australian singles chart* on 20 December 1969 and peaked at #42.
Album:
The song is on Lulu’s 1970 album New Routes.
Songwriter:
Jim Doris
Producers:
Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler
Record label of Australian release:
Atlantic
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Originally a hit for Lulu, Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby) has also been recorded by Aretha Franklin, The Raes, Buster Poindexter, Tina Arena, and many others.
Lulu would later opine of Atlantic Record honchos Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, the producers of her album New Routes: “I don’t think they knew what to do with me, and the only big hit I got [off the album] was a song that I [brought in] with me”, referring to Oh Me Oh My. It was written by Jim Doris who 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.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Me_Oh_My_(I’m_a_Fool_for_You_Baby)
Lyrics:
To make you laugh I’d play the fool for you,
Although the people turn and stare.
I’d give my everything to keep you boy
It breaks my heart when you’re not there.
I’ll stage a ballet on a table top,
Command performance finger size.
Though I ain’t got no tune my show won’t flop,
‘Cause I’ll find the music in your eyes.
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