Don't Knock My Love (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Don't Knock My Love - Pt. 1


Artist = Wilson Pickett
from Album = Don't Knock My Love
B-side = "Don't Knock My Love - Pt. 2"
Released = April 1971
Genre = Soul
Length = 2:13
Label = Atlantic
Writer = Wilson Pickett, Brad Shapiro
Producer = Wilson Pickett
Last single = "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You"
(1971)
This single = "Don't Knock My Love -Pt. 1"
(1971)
Next single = "Call My Name, I'll Be There"
(1971)Infobox Single
Name = Don't Knock My Love
Artist = Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye
from Album = Diana & Marvin
B-side = "Just Say, Just Say"
Released = July 1974
Genre = Soul
Length = 2:13
Label = Motown
Writer = Wilson Pickett, Brad Shapiro
Producer = Hal Davis
Last single = "My Mistake (Was to Love You)"
(1974)
This single = "Don't Knock My Love"
(1974)
Next single = "Don't Knock My Love" is a hit song by R&B singer Wilson Pickett. Released in the spring of 1971 from the album of the same title, it spent a week at number-one on the "Billboard" Best Selling Soul Singles Chart and peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. The song, which was produced under a funk tempo, would be Pickett's last number-one single and one of his last hits for Atlantic Records.

Cover version

The best known cover version of this song was recorded by Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye for their 1973 duet album, "Diana & Marvin". It peaked at #46 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart and #25 on the Hot Soul Singles Chart.

Credits

Wilson Pickett version

*Lead vocals by Wilson Pickett
*Instrumentation by assorted musicians
*Produced by Wilson Pickett

Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye version

*Lead vocals by Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross
*Background vocals by assorted singers
*Instrumentation by assorted Los Angeles musicians
*Produced by Hal Davis