Send me some Lovin’

I've been finding it a bit more difficult to keep up with making these posts lately. I'm full of excuses though, so I'm going to blame it on how I cut the heck out of my thumb on Sunday. I know, I know, I've been being lazy way longer than that, but I'm so lazy even my excuses are bad. They're always bad.

Anyway in keeping with being lazy I'm doing the song Send me some lovin'. It was co-written in the 50s by Leo Price and John S. Marascalso, and recorded by Little Richard in 1957. It was released as a single and made it to number 54 on the Billboard top 100 and number 3 on the R&B chart. In 1958 it appeared on Little Richard self-titled second album.

The Crickets also recorded it in 1957 on their debut album, The Chirping Crickets, but I’m not featuring that version.

I’m featuring the Sam Cooke version. I know I just did Sam. Look, I said I was being lazy. It's even the second time I've featured Little Richard and you know how I keep going on about how I'm trying not to avoid repeats (even though they are inevitable). Anyway, Sam released his version as a single in 1963. It hit number 13 on the Billboard Top 100 and number 2 on the R&B chart. It also appeared as the last song on the first side of Sam's 1963 album Mr. Soul.

The song has also been covered by Stevie Wonder, Hank Williams Jr., Otis Redding, and John Lennon. Incase anyone is interested.

Little Richard:

Sam Cooke:

Okay, this one is tough. Way tougher than I expected. Both versions are great. Little Richards version is faster.  He puts so much energy into his performance. And those parts where he really gets on the mic and really pushes his voice are awesome. Sam’s version is a bit slower but it comes off so classy. It also has those background vocals, which I'm not going to lie are kind of minus points. It's not that I don't like them; I just feel they make the song seem kind of dated. But Sam's voice is so smooth that when light passes through the air his voice is vibrating, it actually travels faster than it does in a vacuum.

So yeah, I can't decide. Umm, I'm just going to make this one a tie and chalk it up to being lazy. I think that's pretty fitting.