KEEP A-KNOCKIN' AN YOU CAN'T GET IN

Created on 21/12/2007
Latest update on 05/06/2024

Artist: James 'Boodle it' Wiggins
Author: Perry Bradford
Label: Broadway/Paramount
Year: 1928

With Bob Call on piano. Earlier titles like the instrumental I'm Busy And You Can't Come In by Sylvester Weaver in 1924 and the eponymous vocal version by Irene Gibbons in 1927, had little in common with James Wiggins' approach, magnified by Little Richard and again by Led Zeppelin.

Covers:

1928:

Bert Mays [barrelhouse pianist]

1935:

Kokomo Arnold [as Buzy Bootin']

1936:

Milton Brown & His Brownies [as Keep-A-Knockin' (But You Can't Come In)]

1937:

Lil Johnson [as Keep On Knocking]

1938:

Bob Wills [as Keep A Knockin' (see also: What's The Matter With The Mill)]

1939:

Louis Jordan [co-crediting Bert Mays]

1950:

Odeus Guillory [as Tu Peux Cogner Mais Tu Peux Pas Rentrer]

1957:

Little Richard [as Keep A-Knockin', inspired by Louis Jordan; n°2 R&B]

1958:

Everly Brothers [idem]

1958:

Gale Storm [idem]

1964:

Sonics [idem]

1970:

Flamin' Groovies [idem]

1970:

Dave Clark Five [idem]

1971:

Led Zeppelin [drum intro Rock And Roll identical to the one in Little Richard's Keep A-Knockin']

1971:

Mott The Hoople [as Keep-A-Knockin']

1974:

Suzi Quatro [idem]

1975:

Clifton Chenier [as Tu Peux Cogner Mais Tu Peux Pas Rentrer]

1978:

Shakin' Stevens [as Keep A Knockin']

1982:

Blasters [idem]

1998:

Beau Jocque [idem]

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