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| "Take Out Some Insurance" | ||||
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 "Take Out Some Insurance" single | ||||
| Single byJimmy Reed | ||||
| from the album Rockin' with Reed | ||||
| B-side | "You Know I Love You" | |||
| Released | April 1959 (1959-04)[1] | |||
| Genre | Chicago blues | |||
| Length | 2:22 | |||
| Label | Vee-Jay(Cat. no.314) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Charles Singleton, Waldenese Hall (credited toJesse Stone) | |||
| Jimmy Reed singles chronology | ||||
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"Take Out Some Insurance" is ablues song released in 1959 byJimmy Reed written byCharles Singleton and Waldenese Hall but originally credited toJesse Stone. The copyright registration for the song lists its title as "Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby".[citation needed].Tony Sheridan recorded it with different lyrics in 1961 withThe Beatles as his backing band. Misidentified, it was released in Germany in 1964 as "If You Love Me, Baby (Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby)" but subsequently as "Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby (If You Love Me, Baby)" , "Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby" or erroneously as "If eou Love Me, Baby" .
Riding a string of popular releases,Jimmy Reed recorded this song in early 1959 and it was released as a single in April with the title "Take Out Some Insurance" (Vee Jay 314). It wasBillboard's R & B "Best Buy" for the week of May 11. According to this magazine, the song sold well in Louisiana but never made the national charts.[2]
| "If You Love Me, Baby" | |
|---|---|
 B-side label of UK single | |
| Single byThe Beatles withTony Sheridan | |
| A-side | "Ain't She Sweet" |
| Released | 29 May 1964 |
| Recorded | 24 June 1961 |
| Studio | Studio Rahlstedt,Hamburg,Germany |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 2:52 |
| Label | Polydor RecordsNH 52-317 (UK) |
| Songwriter(s) | Charles Singleton, Waldenese Hall |
| Producer(s) | Bert Kaempfert |
The song was covered byTony Sheridan andThe Beatles in Hamburg while they were playing at theTop Ten Club. On June 22, 1961, they recorded a version of the song.Bert Kaempfert produced the session for Polydor, of which a single with the songs "My Bonnie" and "The Saints" was issued in 1961. The other recordings were not immediately released[nb 1]. After the Beatles became popular, Polydor prepared three more singles of unreleased material, one of which contained their recording of this song (German Polydor NH 52-317, released in mid-April 1964). These songs were also compiled in the albumThe Beatles' First! that same month. Due to the song's relative obscurity and the fact that the lyrics that Sheridan sang are almost entirely different from Reed's version, the song was mistitled at first as "If You Love Me, Baby" (even being credited as traditional without authorship on early German[3] and British[4] pressings). When the singles were sent toAtlantic Records in the United States for release in that country, apparently someone recognized the song (and copyrighted it to Singleton and Hall). Corrected labels of the June album,The Beatles' First! (German Polydor LPHM 46-432), show the proper title; this album was released in England in 1967, in Canada in 1969 and in the US in 1970.
The American release of the single came slightly later due to Atlantic/Atco's decision to overdub drum (possibly byBernard Purdie) and guitar (possibly byCornell Dupree).[5] Due to one brief use of language that was inappropriate for radio in 1964, Atco also edited the song.[6]
These four Polydor albums have the same tracklist.
1964US album by Atco Records.
1984 CD reissue by Polydor.
American release:
Liner notes by Tony Sheridan for "The Beatles' First" (Polydor Records Ltd., UK 236.201)
