I hear you knocking1/8/2023 But now the ex-girlfriend/lover is back wanting to re-ignite the relationship (‘now you come back tellin’ all those lies’) but he doesn’t want to know (‘I hear you knockin’, but you can’t come in’) and telling her, ‘Go back where you been.’ĭomino’s version is just a couple of verses, but Dave Edmunds’ version has two additional short verses, verse three says, ‘You better get back to your used-to-be, ’cause your kind of love ain’t good for me’ and verse four reveals, ‘I told you way back in ’52 that I would never go with you,’ but who wrote those verses is a mystery as the writing credit on Edmunds version is the same and Lewis and Domino’s.ĭomino’s version is more relaxed in his delivery whereas Edmunds is a bit more forceful cemented by the heavier backing. The song’s meaning is best understood from the Domino version which tells the story of yet another relationship that goes wrong, seemingly, as the song suggests, she had cheated and refused to commit to the relationship and despite him not wanting here to go, (‘I begged you not to go but you said, goodbye’), she leaves nonetheless. Bartholomew and Domino began their collaboration as early as 1949 and it was Bartholomew who suggested Domino do a version which was produced by the former and the one most will remember. Gale Storm took the song to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and Connie Francis released a version in 1959. Lewis’ version, which featured Huey ‘Piano’ Smith on the keys and Earl Palmer on drums, reached number two on the Billboard R&B chart and soon prompted a number of cover versions. It was written by Dave Bartholomew who was a New Orleans trumpet player and Pearl King which was a song writing pseudonym for the guitarist Earl King and first recorded by Smiley Lewis – the same man who recorded the original versions of Fats Domino’s hit Blue Monday and Elvis Presley’s One Night. Many older people will remember the version by Fats Domino in 1961 but it actually goes back six years before that. When Dave Edmunds topped the UK chart in 1970 with the song, many thought it was written by Edmunds as the song was new to the UK chart. This week’s request comes from my good lady who said to me one night, “What’s I Hear You Knocking all about?” to which I replied, “I’m not actually sure” so she said, “Ok, you can research it for your Single of the Week feature.” So, naturally, not wanting to let the better half down, I got to work.
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