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The Clovers' lead vocalist, Buddy Bailey, was drafted into the U.S. Army at the end of August 1951 and John Phillip was brought in to replace him. Philip was soon replaced by Charlie White (born in 1930, Washington, DC), who had been in the vocal groups The Dominoes and The Checkers . [ 1 ]
The song describes a man seeking help to find love. He enlists the help of a Romani person who determines, by means of palmistry, that he needs "love potion number nine".". The potion, an aphrodisiac, causes him to fall in love with everything he sees, kissing whatever is in front of him, eventually kissing a policeman on the street corner, who reacts by breaking his bottle of love pot
violin. cello. harmonica. vocals. Years active. 1966–present. Website. Doobie Brothers official website. John McFee (born September 9, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist, and long-time member of The Doobie Brothers.
In 1955, the Clovers released a version of the song through Atlantic Records as a single. [17] The song was initially recorded, produced, and released when the R&B group was still composed of John "Buddy" Bailey (lead singer), Billy Mitchell, Matthew McQuater, Harold Lucas, Harold Winley, and Bill Harris. [18]
Meet The Searchers is the 1963 debut and most successful album by British rock band The Searchers.The album featured their first single released in June 1963, a version of the Drifters' "Sweets for My Sweet", which was a UK No.1 for the band, as well as their version of the Clovers "Love Potion No.9", which was released as a single in the U.S. (but not in the UK) the following year.
The pair set out to form a vocal group from the ranks of his students, hoping to cash in on the new trend of vocal groups in R&B. The group was at first called the Ques, composed of Clyde McPhatter (lead tenor), whom Ward recruited after McPhatter won "Amateur Night" at the Apollo Theater, Charlie White (), Joe Lamont (), and Bill Brown ().
Founded as a skiffle group in Liverpool in 1959 by John McNally and Mike Pender, the band took their name from the 1956 John Ford western film The Searchers. [3]The band grew out of an earlier skiffle group formed by McNally in 1957, with his friends Ron Woodbridge (born 1938 in Liverpool; lead vocals), Brian Dolan (guitar) and Tony West (born 1938 in Liverpool, died 11 November 2010 in ...
Buddy Knox singles chronology. "Long Lonely Nights". (1960) " Lovey Dovey ". (1960) "Ling, Ting, Tong". (1961) " Lovey Dovey " is a popular American rhythm and blues song originating in the 1950s and written by Eddie Curtis and Ahmet Ertegun, with the latter usually credited using his songwriter's pseudonym "Nugetre" (Ertegun spelled backwards).