found on TOS (cd/cas).
duet with Chuck Brown (bold: Eva; small caps: both).
►TOS inlay (1992 and later) incorrectly cites one 'Lee' as writer of this song. This is not the Shirley & Lee adaptation (see below), but the original, credited to Sam Theard & Fleecie Moore (cop. 1946, renewed 1974). Fleecie Moore was Louis Jordan's wife. To avoid breach of contract Jordan was in the habit of crediting songs to her when signing them to a third party publisher. 'This worked fine until they divorced in 1947--after she stabbed him'.
►Louis Jordan website.
►Little biographical information is available on Sam Theard on the web. Some titles in a list of original Theard releases on 78 rpm (list no longer online) suggest he was a purveyor of the kind of early urban blues called 'jelly roll': smirking songs about coitus.
original: Louis Jordan (1946).
covers. The original was adapted by Shirley & Lee in 1956, and in 1964 Sam Cooke wrote the song Good Times, obviously inspired by one or both of the others. These three have become hopelessly confused. A very selective list of recordings of the Theard & Moore song: 32/20 Blues Band (live, 2003); John Ashley; Tony Bennett; Tony Bennett & B.B. King; Big Brother & the Holding Company (1967); [more...] Bobby Bland; Blues Band (1993); Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (1976); Buckwheat Zydeco (1998); Ray Charles (1959); Clifton Chenier (1982); Rick Derringer (1998); Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames (1966); Fishbone (1994); Helen Humes (1973); Quincy Jones, Bono, Ray Charles & Stevie Wonder (1995); Louis Jordan & Tympany 5; B.B. King; B.B. King & Bobby Bland (1976); Freddie King (1974); Alexis Korner (1966); League of Decency (1995); Jerry Lee Lewis (1975); Zoot Money (live, 1966); Muddy Waters (1975); Koko Taylor (1978); Rufus Thomas; Link Wray & The Raymen with Kathy Lynn (1966). One or other of the three songs or adaptations has been recorded by Grateful Dead, and Robbie Robertson. According to allmusic.com there are more than 100 covers of the Shirley & Lee adaptation. There are at least 15 cover versions of the Sam Cooke song. Second Hand Songs lists 12 versions, Cover Info has 24.