- I Hear You Knocking
Infobox Single
Name = I Hear You Knocking
Artist =Dave Edmunds
from Album = Rockpile
B-side = "Black Bill"
Released = November, 1970
Format = 7" 45 RPM
Genre = Rock
Length = 2:48
Label = MAM
Writer =Dave Bartholomew ,Pearl King
Producer =Dave Edmunds
Audio sample? =
Certification =
Last single = --
This single ="I Hear You Knocking"
(1970)
Next single ="Baby I Love You "
(1973)
Misc ="I Hear You Knocking" (sometimes spelled "I Hear You Knockin'") is a popularrhythm and blues song with emphaticsyncopation , written byDave Bartholomew andPearl King and published in 1955. The original recording was made bySmiley Lewis .The song, a
12-bar blues , was popularized in 1955 in acover version byGale Storm in a recording onDot Records catalog number 15412, reaching #2 on the Billboard charts. The song reached #3 on the Cash Box Best-Selling Record chart.A later recording by
Dave Edmunds reached #4 on the Billboard charts in 1971 and was the Christmas #1 single in the UK of 1970, topping the chart for six weeks.In an interview with
John Lennon made shortly after the dissolution ofthe Beatles , Lennon told interviewerJann Wenner that the Edmunds version was his favourite new recording.There are also two versions of this song recorded by
Alvin Lee . A live version in 1994 on the album 'Live in Vienna' and a studio version in 1995 on the album 'Nineteen Ninety four'.The song was also covered live by the British rock band Thunder, and can be found as a live B-side on their "Castles in the Sand" single.
The lyrics concern a former lover whose knocking will not be answered. A similar lyrical theme appears in "
Keep A-Knocking " and "Open the Door, Richard ".Versions
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Jill Day
*Bryan Adams
*Canned Heat
*Clifton Chenier
*Fats Domino (1955)
*Dave Edmunds (1970)
*The Fabulous Thunderbirds (1981)
*Andy Fairweather-Low (1976)
*Connie Francis (1959)
*Screamin' Jay Hawkins
*Pee Wee King & The Golden West Cowboys
*Kingfish (1976)
*Alvin Lee (1994)
*Jerry Lee Lewis
*Smiley Lewis (1955)
*Rockin' Dopsie
*Bruce Springsteen (bootleg)
*Shakin' Stevens (1970)
*Gale Storm (1955)
*Billy Swan
*Thunder
*Joe Turner
*Mac Wiseman
*Joe Walsh
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