I am trying to trace the origins of "You Don't Love Me" which is credited to Willie Cobbs.
While it is pretty widely believed that Willie borrowed the riff for You Don't Love Me from Bo Diddley's She's Fine, She's Mine, the melody and lyrics are less clear.
Clarence Edwards recorded You Don't Love Me (without the Bo Diddley beat) for Dr. Harry Oster, released on Country Negro Jam Sessions.
I believe that the Clarence Edwards recording occurred prior to the Willie Cobbs session, but I have been struggling to pin down exact dates for both. Dates for the Harry Oster / Clarence Edwards session seem to be 1960 and for the Willie Cobbs session seem to be either 1960 or 1961, but the ambiguity allows for overlap (and therefore the possibility that Edwards learned teh song from the Cobbs record.)
Does anyone know the exact recording and/or release dates of these two records?
Or, more interesting, does anyone know of any evidence that You Don't Love Me was sung as a folk/country blues song BEFORE the recordings by Cobbs and Edwards?
While it is pretty widely believed that Willie borrowed the riff for You Don't Love Me from Bo Diddley's She's Fine, She's Mine, the melody and lyrics are less clear.
Clarence Edwards recorded You Don't Love Me (without the Bo Diddley beat) for Dr. Harry Oster, released on Country Negro Jam Sessions.
I believe that the Clarence Edwards recording occurred prior to the Willie Cobbs session, but I have been struggling to pin down exact dates for both. Dates for the Harry Oster / Clarence Edwards session seem to be 1960 and for the Willie Cobbs session seem to be either 1960 or 1961, but the ambiguity allows for overlap (and therefore the possibility that Edwards learned teh song from the Cobbs record.)
Does anyone know the exact recording and/or release dates of these two records?
Or, more interesting, does anyone know of any evidence that You Don't Love Me was sung as a folk/country blues song BEFORE the recordings by Cobbs and Edwards?