First Drink of the Day – the Dirty Mother Folkers
Drunk Englishman singing about alcoholism. Bruce Springsteen inspired.
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This is my version of this great little song. I hope you enjoy it. -Kenny. “Let Me Go, Lover!”, a popular song, was written by Jenny Lou Carson and Al Hill, a pseudonym used by Fred Wise, Kathleen Twomey, and Ben Weisman. It is based on an earlier song called “Let Me Go, Devil,” about alcoholism. It was featured on the television program Studio One on November 15, 1954, and caught the fancy of the public. Joan Weber sang the song on the tv production and was pregnant at the time. A result of the program was to illustrate how efficiently a song could be promoted by introducing it to the public via radio or a tv production. The recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 40366. Mitch Miller stocked national record stores the week before the program and because of its availability the record sold over 100000 the first week of its release. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on December 4, 1954. By January of 1955, Weber’s record of the song had hit #1 on all the Billboard charts (the Disk Jockey chart, the Best Seller chart, and the Juke Box chart). It was also quickly covered by a number of other singers: one artist to “cover” it was Lucille Ball. In the March 18th, 1955 episode of I Love Lucy, entitled Bull Fight Dance, Lucy sings a snatch of the song with a lot of verve and feeling. Such was the song’s popularity. Among the cover versions was one by Patti Page. This recording was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70511. It first …