Shakin' All Over

Single infobox
Name = Shakin' All Over


Artist = Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
from Album =
B-side = "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" (Donaldson/Khan)
Released = 1960 (UK)
Format = 7"
Recorded = Abbey Road: 13 May 1960, (9 June 1959 "Yes, Sir")
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = HMV POP 753 (UK)
Writer = Frederick Heath
Producer =
Chart position = * #1 (UK Singles Chart)
Last single = "You Got What It Takes"
(1960)
This single = "Shakin' All Over"
(1960)
Next single = "Restless"
(1960)

Shakin' All Over is a rock and roll song originally performed by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. It was written by frontman Johnny Kidd and reached #1 in the United Kingdom in August 1960. Musicians were: Johnny Kidd (vocals), Alan Caddy (guitar), Brian Gregg (bass), Clem Cattini (drums), Joe Moretti (lead).

The original recording was not a hit outside of Europe. Instead, "Shakin' All Over" gained fame in North America after The Guess Who covered it in 1965, where it was a #1 hit in Canada and a #22 hit in the US.

The Guess Who's version also was a #27 hit in Australia, but another "Shakin' All Over" cover became a national #1 hit in late 1965 for Normie Rowe. Rowe's version of the track (backed by "Que Sera Sera") was one of the biggest-selling Australian singles of the decade.

Johnny Kidd is quoted as saying:

"When I was going round with a bunch of lads and we happened to see a girl who was a real sizzler we used to say that she gave us ‘quivers down the membranes’. It was a standard saying with us referring to any attractive girl…..I can honestly say that it was this more than anything that inspired me to write ‘Shakin’ All Over’."

Other versions

*The song has been performed many times by The Who, perhaps most famously on "Live at Leeds" in 1970.

*Recorded by The British Invasion All-Stars with original Pirates guitarist Mick Green on lead guitar. Appears on The Yardbirds Family Tree album. Mooreland St Records, 2006 [ [http://www.yardbirds.us/ The Yardbirds - American Home Of The Most Blueswailing Yardbirds ] ]

*The Beach Boys sampled the vibrato guitar break in the 1986 hit "Rock 'n' Roll to the Rescue."

Also covered by:
*Rose Hill Drive
*Suzi Quatro
*Iggy Pop
*Van Morrison
*The Guess Who

References in popular culture

*The Guess Who version has been included in the Battlefield Vietnam soundtrack.

*"Shakin' All Over" is the name of a CBC Television documentary on Canadian rock music in the 1950s and 1960s.

*The Guess Who version of the song is also featured in a Hugo Boss XY and XX Fragrance Commercial, featuring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Bette Franke.

*In 1998 Australia Post issued a special edition set of twelve stamps celebrating the early years of Australian Rock ‘n’ Roll, featuring Australian hit songs of the late 50s, the 60s and the early 70s.

"Each of them said something about us, and told the rest of the world this is what popular culture sounds like, and it has an Australian accent." [cite web |url=http://www.auspost.com.au/philatelic/stamps/index.asp?link_id=2.389 |title=Australian Stamps : Rock Australia |publisher=Australia Post |date=2001-03-20 |accessdate=2008-05-21]

One of the stamps featured was the 'Shakin' All Over' stamp as illustrated to the left.

References

External links

* http://www.thewho.net/discography/songs/ShakinAllOver.html
* http://www.musicdish.com/mag/index.php3?id=5302