Shake Baby Shake Shake Off the Leaves Lyrics
Johnny O'Keefe - Shake, Baby, Shake (1957)
(Johnny O'Keefe*)
Australia
On Festival EP Whole Lotta Shakin', Dec 1957.
A rearranged version released in September 1963 charted in iv capital cities (#21 Sydney #8 Melbourne #21 Brisbane #26 Adelaide). See below.
Also released in the USA on Brunswick, May 1958, and in the Britain on Coral July 1958. Both were as B-sides of Real Wild Kid (see The Wild One).
* The vocal is clearly an adaptation of the Hank Ballard composition Sexy Means, recorded past Ballard'southward group The Midnighters (1954). See below under The Midnighters .
Attribution:
• This EP wrongly credits the writer as Champion Jack Dupree whose Shake Baby Shake (1953) is a different vocal.
• The U.s.a. and UK releases also credit Dupree .
• The 1963 re-recording by O'Keefe credits him as the writer.
• The Australian copyright societies APRA & AMCOS list the song with John Michael O'Keefe as the writer.
Page updated Nov 2021 with thanks to John Pierce at 94.1FM Gold Coast and Tony Watson.
Proffer and assay from Terry Stacey.
Wayne Raney and Jesse Lee Turner versions reassessed Jan 2022.
Wayne Raney - Milkshake Baby Milkshake (1957)
(Louie Ennis - Wayne Raney)
USA
B-side on Decca February 1957 by land singer-songwriter and harmonica player from Arkansas (1921-1993). The lyric goes Shake infant shake baby shake.
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one. Similar Johnny O'Keefe'southward Shake Baby Milkshake, this song borrows from The Midnighters' Sexy Means (1954), written past Hank Ballard :
• Hank Ballard'southward I simply love your sexy ways becomes I love your purty ways baby.
• Ballard'due south premise of shaking till something happens is intact, although with a fresh catalogue of consequences (till the roof falls on the floor).
2. Rayney's recording also inserts a variation on Little Richard's Rip It Up (1956) in this section:
Little Richard: I'm gonna rock it up, I'yard gonna rip it up / I'm gonna shake it upwards, gonna ball it up / I'm gonna rock it up, and ball this evening
Wayne Rayney: Y'all gotta romp information technology up, you gotta stomp information technology up / Y'all gotta live it up, never give information technology up / Yous gotta keep it up, I just dear those purty ways
Sources: 1. Discogs.com's Wayne Raney biography. two. Comments on the YouTube video, particularly by John Montague who discusses Sexy Ways and Rip It Up as sources. 3. Sound comparisons.
The Midnighters - Sexy Means (1954)
(Hank Ballard)
USA
Original version
Single on Federal by Detroit group formed 1950 equally The Royals , by at present led by Hank Ballard , existent name John Henry Kendricks (1927-2003), shown in the writer credit for Sexy Ways equally Henry Ballard .
Ballard was a pioneer of what became rock'n'coil, an R&B vocalizer and songwriter famous for writing and recordingThe Twist (1958), a B-side of his that was turned into a #1 hit and a dance craze by Chubby Checker (1960).
Encounter also Ray Hoff & The Off Beats – Let'south Go, Permit'southward Become, Allow's Go (1966), some other Hank Ballard composition.
Comparison of each vocal's melody, structure, and lyrics leaves no dubiety that O'Keefe's Shake Baby Milkshake is an accommodation of The Midnighters' Sexy Ways with some rewording and boosted lyrics. The fundamental line I love your sexy ways is not out of place among Ballard's lyrics, merely it has been watered downwardly to I love your cute trivial ways on O'Keefe'south record, an unsurprising adjustment for an Australian audience of 1957.
Some lyrics from the outset verse and the chorus of each song:
Hank Ballard Shake baby shake shake shake
Johnny O'Keefe Well, shake-a-baby shake-a-babe shake
HB till the meat roll off your basic
JO'Thou till the meat falls off the bone
HB till your mama and daddy comes home
JO'Yard till your mama and your papa come dwelling house
HB I just dearest your sexy ways
JO'K Well I love your beautiful little ways
HB Upside down, all effectually, any onetime mode, but pound
JO'Chiliad Well, upside down, all around, any way y'all do it baby clown(?)
Listen: Spotify playlist of Shake Baby Shake variations.
Sexy Means was also released in the 60s and 70s past:
• Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks (1964) on The All-time Of…
• Jerry Lee Lewis (1965) on The Render Of Rock
• Gene Vincent (1970) on I'm Back And I'1000 Proud
• Shakin' Stevens And The Sunsets (1976) on EP Sexy Ways.
Run across also: Sexy Ways at 2nd Hand Songs for a list with about ten other versions from the 1980s and beyond.
Aforementioned title different song :
• Crown Heights Affair – Sexy Ways (Arnold "Muki" Wilson – Britt Britton – Freida Nerangis) 1977
• The Ebonys – Sexy Ways (Kenny Gamble – Leon Huff) 1971
• The Four Tops – Sexy Means (Valjean Johns – Willie Hutch) 1985
Further reading: Steve Huey's biography of Hank Ballard at All Music.
Jesse Lee Turner - Shake Baby Shake (1958)
(Jesse Lee Turner)
USA
Later version
B-side on Carlton YouTube Dec 1958 past singer-songwriter from Texas who released over a dozen singles on various labels, more often than not from 1958 to 1962. The A-side of this rail, The Petty Space Girl, charted #20 Billboard, his only national hitting.
This Shake Baby Milkshake also draws on Hank Ballard's Sexy Ways musically, thematically and lyrically.
Verse 1:
Hank Ballard Milk shake baby shake shake shake / till the meat curl off your bones
Jesse Lee Turner Shake-a-infant shake-a-babe shake / before this trip the light fantastic is through
HB I just love your sexy means
JLT I just honey your comport on
Poetry two:
HB Jerk wiggle wiggle jerk wiggle / Till your hips get tired and weak
JLT Wiggle jerk wiggle wiggle wiggle / When you lot dance across the floor
Chorus:
HB Upside downwardly, all around…
JLT You lot bop around, all effectually…
It's interesting to annotation that the phrase shake-a-baby milkshake-a-baby shake was likewise heard in Johnny O'Keefe'south earlier Australian version (December 1957).
Farther reading: Short biography at All Music.
Johnny O'Keefe - Milkshake, Baby, Milk shake (1963)
(Johnny O'Keefe*)
Australia
Later on version
#21 Sydney #8 Melbourne #21 Brisbane #26 Adelaide
Single on Leedon September 1963, a re-recording with a new arrangement of O'Keefe'southward 1957 EP track. Double-sided striking in Sydney with Skillful Luck Charm. Also on EP Shake Baby Shake And Twist And Shout (1964).
* The writer credit is now to O'Keefe. Come across note above under Johnny O'Keefe (1957).
This rearrangement loses the energetic step and commitment of the original 1957 rocker. Information technology has a similar feel to O'Keefe's #one hit Motility Infant Move, released a few months earlier.
Champion Jack Dupree - Shake Babe Shake (1953)
Same title but not the aforementioned song as 'Shake, Baby, Shake' by Johnny O'Keefe.
45 rpm unmarried on Reddish Robin, also on 78 rpm. Reissued on Vik, 1957. YouTube
Johnny O'Keefe'south Shake Babe Shake, (1957) inaccurately credits Dupree equally writer of that song.
Champion Jack Dupree : blues singer and pianist, former boxer from New Orleans ( William Thomas Dupree c.1910-1992). He recorded for several labels from the 40s, including Okeh, King and Atlantic. Later in life he lived in the Uk and connected to record there.
Clarification: In his hitting song Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (1957) Jerry Lee Lewis prominently repeats the words milkshake, baby, shake. Vocal historian Joop Jansen suggests that Champion Jack Dupree's 1957 rerelease of his Shake Baby Shake may have been a response to the success of Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On. Still Lewis did non record Dupree's Milkshake Baby Milk shake and there is no real connection between the 2 songs.
Archibald And His Orchestra - Shake Milk shake Babe (1950)
(Leon T. Gross)
USA
Ruby-red herring
Similar title, 'Shake Shake Infant', but not the same song as 'Milk shake, Baby, Shake' past Johnny O'Keefe.
78 rpm Imperial disc. also on 45 rpm single, an original composition by New Orleans singer-pianist Leon Gross (1912/xvi-1973) who used the phase proper name Archibald .
Possibly considering Jerry Lee Lewis's use of the phrase shake baby shake is so familiar, Shake Shake Baby is hands mistyped as Shake Infant Shake. The AllMusic biography of Archibald has the sideslip, as practice several YouTube posts of the song.
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Celestine - Shake Infant Shake (1961)
(John Bizant)
USA
Red herring
Same title but not the aforementioned vocal as 'Milkshake, Baby, Shake' by Johnny O'Keefe.
B-side on Adore, a small, brusque-lived New York characterization.
This appears to be the just output on record by Celestine or past writer John Bizant , and the only trace I can find of either.
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Cherry herring alert from Philippe Edouard.
Ronnie Gallant - Shake, Shake, Infant (1962)
(Billy Myles)
USA
Cherry herring
Similar championship but not the same vocal equally 'Shake, Babe, Shake' by Johnny O'Keefe.
B-side on NY label Starlite, also on Atlantic, by singer who released two singles in 1962 and nothing else, as far as I can run across. This was written, arranged and produced by vocaliser-songwriter Billy Myles (see Discogs.com for biography).
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Ruddy herring alert from Terry Stacey.
Lee Bates - Shake, Baby, Shake (1976)
(Isaac Bolden)
USA
Cerise herring
Same title but non the same song as 'Milkshake, Baby, Shake' by Johnny O'Keefe.
Single on Allen Toussaint's characterization Sansu by New Orleans-based soul singer. Written, arranged and produced by Isaac Bolden (see discogs.com), as was the B-side Shake, Babe, Shake (Disco Version).
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Further reading: Detailed account of Lee Bates'southward career at the Soul Detective blog.
Source: https://poparchives.com.au/johnny-okeefe/shake-baby-shake/
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