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Baby Let's Play House" is a song written and originally recorded by Arthur Gunter in 1954 on the Excello Records label, [1] [2] [3] and covered by Elvis Presley the following year on Sun Records. [4] A line from the song ("I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man") was borrowed by John Lennon for his Beatles song " Run ...
The song's lyrics deal with a heartbreak, but in a humorous way. [3] The singer says to his friend that the friend was right in warning him that the girl would break his heart. But the singer still had to find out for himself [ 3 ] if she was "the one" for him.
The Polecats played rockabilly with a "punk sense of anarchy and helped revive the genre for a new generation in the early '80s." [ 1 ] The band were first signed by the fledgling British rockabilly record label Nervous Records , [ 2 ] and recorded their first single "Rockabilly Guy" at guitarist Alan Warner's "Lane Studios" in 1979.
In November 1954, Gunter recorded "Baby Let's Play House" for Excello (2047), [4] which not only became a local hit, but peaked at number 12 in the US Billboard R&B chart. [5] It became better nationally known the next year, when Elvis Presley recorded a version for Sun Records. Gunter continued to record for Excello until 1961.
The song's lyrics establish a threatening tone towards the singer's unnamed girlfriend (referred to throughout the song as "little girl"), claiming "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man." The line was taken from an early Elvis Presley song, "Baby Let's Play House" (written by Arthur Gunter). [2] [3]
Presley in a Sun Records promotional photograph, 1954. Elvis Presley recorded at least 24 songs at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, between 1953 and 1955.The recordings reflect the wide variety of music that could be heard in Memphis at the time: blues, rhythm & blues, gospel, country & western, hillbilly, rockabilly and bluegrass.
The track "Let's Play House" was sampled by the hip-hop group Digital Underground for their single "The Humpty Dance". While Trombipulation wasn't as commercially successful as previous Parliament albums, its first single, "Agony of DeFeet" peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts.
"Let's Play House" is a song by hip hop duo Tha Dogg Pound featuring Michel'le. The song is the second single released from their debut album Dogg Food. Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg and Michel'le make appearances in both the song and the video. The song begins with a spoken intro from Dr. Dre.