Love Potion No. 9 (song)

Love Potion No. 9 (song)

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Name = Love Potion No. 9


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Artist = The Clovers
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Released = 1959
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Length = 2:02
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Writer = Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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"Love Potion No. 9" is a song written in 1959 by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally performed by The Clovers.

The song has since been covered by numerous artists. A partial list:
*The Clovers (1959)
*The Searchers (1963), a U.S. No. 3 hit in 1965
*Ronnie Dio and the Prophets (1964)
*Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass (1965)
*The Ventures (February 1965)
*Paolo Bracci (in Italian, as "Non Ho Dormito Mai") (1965)
*Nancy Sit (1967)
*The Coasters (1971)
*Elkie Brooks (1976)
*Tygers of Pan Tang (1982)
*Beau Nasty (1989)
*Southern All Stars (1990)
*Lowri Blake (1993)
*Neil Diamond (1993)
*Rockapella
*The Alley Cats
*The White Stripes
*Flotsam and Jetsam (band)
*MDC (band)
*Gary Lewis & The Playboys

It was featured in the movie of the same name, and in the musical "Smokey Joe's Cafe".

As a pop-culture reference, it is found in the animated film, Shrek 2. The bottle of love potion that the Fairy Godmother gives to the King of Far Far Away has IX (the number nine in Roman numerals) on the side of it.

Parodies

In 2008, Paul Shanklin recorded a version for The Rush Limbaugh Show called "Love Client No. 9," in which Bill Clinton is portrayed as describing the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal and lamenting that Eliot Spitzer did not call him for advice on how to get away with it. [http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/New/loveclientno9.asx]

The Capitol Steps also did a parody called "Polonium-209", which referred to the alleged murder of Alexander Litvinenko using the aforementioned chemical.

External links

* [http://www.emusic.com/samples/m3u/song/10669439/11571291.m3u M3u sampler of the song]


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