The Clovers-Love Potion No.9

[radiodiary1]

I have no idea who the ...CLOVERS ARE...but I REMEMBER THIS SONG GROWING ..up as a child...LIVING IN GREENVILLE NC. My family ...worked at the only movie theater for blacks. My mother sold the tickets..my aunt sold the popcorn..my father showed the movie..and my uncle..PUT YOU OUT....

[Singer148]

This version of Love Potion Number 9 was not recorded by the "ORIGINAL CLOVERS". This is just a poor imotation of the original

version by a group of wannabes that own

the trademark of The Clovers. This group

has done everything in its power to keep

the original guys from performing under

The Clovers name. If you want the real

group then you should look up The Original Clovers featuring Harold Winley. Mr. Winley

Is THE ONLY LIVING ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE GROUP!!!!!!

[MyBeautifulZombie]

i sang this song back when i was in 5th grade, and now i still consider this one of my favorite songs :)

[Singer148]

The reason that you can't find the original version of this record is because, THE CLOVERS made the original version of this song in 1959 and not the COASTERS. They are two separate groups, and were NEVER THE SAME GROUP. Although they both have versions of this song. But, The Clovers recorded this song first and had the biggest hit record. Check out The Clovers history at The Vocal Group Hall of Fame.org

[NikkyNakky1]

Oh hold on. The Clovers became The Coasters. Still can't find the old Coasters version that I know.

[elamite66]

@NikkyNakky1 The Clovers did the original as Singer148 says the Coasters recorded it years later as the Searchers did in 1964 The Clovers is the best no competition there is also an LP version mentioning Love Potion Number 10 Word Up

[NikkyNakky1]

The Coasters definitely did the original. Maybe it was a hit only in USA. Ive not found their original version on here yet.

[bswade007]

I brought myself here

[curvy71]

which version is better?the Cloves or the Searchers?

[Mata041]

@curvy71 The Coasters :-)

[curvy71]

@Mata041 never heard the Coasters version.

[raintalonwindclan]

@curvy71 Clovers. Not just sayin that either.

[curvy71]

@raintalonwindclan ok

[raven013]

Are there any Cirno fans here who clicked this vid just because of the number 9?

Touhou rocks!

[KellBeezy28]

I was watching the movie "Sparkle" last night and had to listen to this song. I love all kinds of music. I like it alot :)

[STANDREW2]

Not the original.



[CaptainUniverse100]

@STANDREW2 Yes it is. The Searchers had a more famous version, but they're the ones who covered it.

[raintalonwindclan]

@STANDREW2 Yes it is.

[rara123rara123]

heineken commercial :D

[JohnCharlesHeiser]

Pure Kansas City

[jamirosmajicrocks]

this commercial on my tv keeps playing this song!

[STANDREW2]

STANDREW2

Not a good version the original recording was much better

[corvus13]

@STANDREW2 This IS the original recording.

[Freyja1133]

being a singer ,I love the clovers original version

[Suprkit]

RIP Mr Leiber.

[jbowen43]

I only ever heard the Clovers version. This isn't the original Clovers version. Totally different sound.

[djola77]

nicolas jaar did a great track (stay in love) with these lyrics

[superfastmikey]

great ta

[PurplePillEater]

Worst version.

[CandyAndre]

The Clovers is number 1 in singing "Love Potion Number 9"!

[amra33]

So which version is this?

[28ashfield]

The Clovers made two recordings of Love Potion No. 9,with different last verses. This is neither of these.

[theScytheofGod]

I can't find the version of this song I grew up on. It's not the Clovers, and I've listened to the searchers and the Coasters. Sigh. Lost forever.

[chgosatrap]

@theScytheofGod

Maybe Ronnie Dio?

[CheckMate657879]

Great sound quality!!! Thanks for this upload. This is my fav version because it's the one I grew up on - FUNKY rhythm and blues - it's all in this song.

[amra33]

@CheckMate657879 which version is this?

[metyuewb]

@amra33 can you read?

[lyingmongoose]

I didn't know The Seachers did a cover of this, I've always had it by The Clovers.

[1Ocish]

James Durbin killed this...

[toymaster7425]

This version SUCKS! The Searchers did it best.

[yhelgi]

heineken brought me here :D

[cronostitan92]

wow the first version I ever heard was by Ronnie James Dio & the prophets, but my god I like this one so much better

[birdwatcherdee1]

Thought it was the Coasters?

[TheFlowarBloempjee]

Thumbs up if the Heineken commercial brought you here.

[peopleunite]

Ah, this song whisks me away to a time when music was actually about singing! Who needs all the flashing lights of American Idol? I can close my eyes and see neighborhood kids singing this song on the stoop. It's so much better that way.

[ilovekelly75]

@peopleunite I'm sure the average American Idol is a whole lot more talented than any given neighborhood kid.

[Bl00dDeath]

james durbin rockz more then dis shit!

[hammerman7777]

@Bl00dDeath durban screeches like a little girl--he absolutely does not "rock"

[Bl00dDeath]

@hammerman7777 na durbiz awesome douchebag

[wontmakeorbreakme]

@hammerman7777 We gotta drop the "Amen" for now! Can I get a "Hater"?!

[wontmakeorbreakme]

@hammerman7777 Since, "Screeching like a little girl" isn't rock you must truly hate Slash and Steven Tyler because they literally screech like women and they're legends of rock. You obviously don't know what rock is then

[TheMStatic]

yeah i cam e to check this after looking at american idol in finland, had to check up it

[girlbow532]

12 people are fans of justin bieber

[NormalGirlAbby]

@girlbow532 I am but I still like this song...

[girlbow532]

@NormalGirlAbby oo: well you're special! :D yaaaay!

[herbertpalo14]

James Durbin Brought Me Here..

[spicawind11]

heard the american idol cover of it and fell in love with the original too <3

[sanderella]

Whenever I hear this song I have a flashback of my mom back on some 70's kick when she took belly dancing lessons and they practiced to this song.. Good grief!

[Knicksman76]

Love the soulfulness of this version... great post :)

[MyBeautifulZombie]

i sang this with my 5th grade class

it has been my favorite song ever since! :)

[NatalieLuvsAlot]

@MyBeautifulZombie omg same in gr5 same by little sister is in grade 5 and she just sang this :P

[MrChickenZombie]

Aw... memories...

[winsome1235]

Although the Clovers were the first to do this, the group that initially made it famous was "The Coasters" who came out with it in 1959, the same year as the Clovers. They then did a remake in 1971. Most of the DJ's back in the day played their version and that includes the so-called "mainstream" radio stations.

[thomas242007]

@winsome1235 Congradulations! you can use GOOGLE. hahaha just kidding just felt like being a dick to a random person on here

[hjb103055]

@fosbury68 I typed in Love Potion No. 9, clicked on "Love Potion No. 9 (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" and the first 2 sentences were "Love Potion No. 9" is a song written in 1959 by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally performed by the Clovers." On the bottom of the page is all the groups who did this song. I never heard of The Clovers before now so I have nothing to compare it too. It's just what I read on the computer. The group I know is The Searchers

[CLCFootball]

added after it. They were discovered at a local social club where they played for free for the experience. They originally started at Armstrong High School in Washington D.C. After they met their manager Lou Krefetz they started makeing it big. When they signed with Atlantic Records.

[CLCFootball]

For your information this is the Clovers original fr 1959. With John "Buddy" Bailey at the lead with Harold Lucas and Harold Winley also in the band. This original hit #1 on the charts and was the last song for The Clovers to do so. Of course the band doesn't have the very first originals in it after all of the replacements but it's as original as it gets. Most people don't know but there were 21 people in and out of the band. There were originally three members with the fourth shortly adde

[fosbury68]

NOT the original by the Clovers.

[hjb103055]

@fosbury68 This is the original The Clovers. Type in The Searchers Love Potion No. 9. That's who you want.

[fosbury68]

@hjb103055

You've got tin ears my friend..

The version on this link is NOT the original by the Clovers. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller not only wrote but produced the original recording of LP#9. It's obvious that Jerry and Mike had nothing to do with this muddy, soulless and lackluster version.

This is just a poorly executed remake.

[akazification]

awesome!

[maninblack1064]

The version on video responses  above is very close to the original take .... a damn sake better than the others on here

[maninblack1064]

Just listened to all the Love Potion No 9 by the ( so called ) Clovers and not one is the original version that was released in England on the London or London American label in 1959.... how strange .....

[hjb103055]

@maninblack1064 The Clovers first did this in 1959 and everybody did it after that, but, it was The Searchers that everybody knows.

[wheimer2]

@hjb103055 I always associate it with The Clovers!

[2waterfall2]

@hjb103055 This is the first version I ever heard and it was in, like, second grade. xD

[Megadeaf75]

@hjb103055 true but i knew this version i had parents with fine tastes in tunes! I love this song so much i want to metalize it but i dont know how it will go over. i think chicks ill dig it still.

[misterkurdt]

@hjb103055 Not me, just The Clovers version... Thank god for awesome parents and American Graffiti.

[maninblack1064]

Sorry....Definately not the original ... Its sounds like a different group completely

[miked104]

If this is the original. The other ones cooler

[carlswitzerfan]

^^^^^^^ This video response on the left is the original one. What you currently hear is a remake.

[nutleyguitar1968]

Written by Leiber and Stoller!

[AvidOldiesCollector]

Sorry, but this is NOT the original by The Clovers.

[codygx123]

Cheyenne Likes This Sing

[kurtb11593]

This is the original. The most commonly heard version and the one mistaken for the original is covered by the Searchers.

[ThirdandPine]

@kurtb11593 This is not the original. Sounds like a redo done about 20 years later.

[sleepytimegalz]

I love the piano on this!!  Phyllis..

[DonQuixBalls]

I still prefer the Tygers of Pan Tang version (1982) and The Searchers (1966)

[Cinnamombunz]

definitely not the original ... too bad ... wish it was.

[greendaysaint8302]

@Cinnamombunz

This most certainly is the original done in 1959

[AvidOldiesCollector]

You're absolutely right, cecil206bik, they did a version in 1971 that was issued only in the U.K. as a single on Parlophone. Not bad either.

[AvidOldiesCollector]

This is a re-make of their 1959 hit with different group members. The original hit # 23 in October 1959., The cover by The Searchers reached # 3 in late 1964. The original by The Clovers is better than both this remake and the cover.

[cecil206blk]

@AvidOldiesCollector Love this song !!! I can remember hearing it but didn't the coasters do one also ? Love the Oldies & Classic Rock !!!! AWESOME

[307OLDS]

I'm sorry I think I got my dates mixed up. The original was made in 1962 I think and the remake by The Searchers was made in 1966. sorry for the mix up.

[307OLDS]

The Clovers originally did the song in 1958 and then someone else remade it in 1962. This version is the Clovers but this is a remake that they did, this for sure isn't the original. Nothing sounds as good as the original of this song.

[Thericardoable]

lol my teacher played this song wit his guitar and also sang it today

[michael144635]

I just heard a totally different version tonite on KAAM 770 in Dallas. Probably the Clovers but had almost a Latin/Jazzy-esque beat to it. At the end the background singers are saying "stir it up . . . and drink it down" Im trying to find this version and that's how I wound up here. The Clovers did the original but this is not the original, in fact, doesnt sound like the same lead singer. The Searchers did the remake in 64-65. Both great hits.

[AmericanEvita]

I prefer The Searchers version of this song; this is nice, has more instrumentation - piano and sax but I'm used to hearing The Searchers, heard it ad nauseum on K Earth 101 Oldies radio station for many years.

[MrBuckwilliam]

ooo, gimme more. i'm stilla flop with chicks :)

[Kingscrib]

Wow I am constantly amazed at what pops up on the internet! I collected 45s back then and this was one among many I just loved. Glad I hung onto them and the many LPs amassed over the years, until they phased them out in the late 80s! CDs were supposed to be better and cheaper to produce. Ha! Never happened. Early R&B...THIS is the music that started the revolution from the age of crooners into modern music! Awesome stuff. Thanks for posting it!

[MrCreed89]

I love this version. It's a shame it didn't get as much popularity as the Searchers did.

[CardinalEgan]

HotPlatters1 is right. It might be the Clovers, but it's not the original recording. I could tell right from the beginning, and the 80's sounding drums made me 100% sure (recorded drums didn't sound like that in 1959).

A lot of groups re-recorded their hits, sometimes more than once. The records were advertised as "by the original artists", but the original artists did not own their master recordings. A label will almost never sell the master of a hit, the only way around it is to rerecord.

[971redhead]

Classic...

[rmhomemail]

SUPER! Thank you. Of course, the verse about Love Potion #10 is missing.

[kayleighbaaybiee]

I Have To Sing This Song At School!!

[CheckMate657879]

"She said I'm gonnna mix it up right here in the sink ... But when I kissed that cop down on 34th and Vine ... broke my little bottle of ... "

Yeah - I think a lot of folks done "kissed the cop down on 34th and Vine" and "broke their little bottle of ..." because they were doing too muuuuccccchhhhh!!!!! Aside from that - love this jam - too funky!

[iloveclassics50]

this is not weak ! its the best imo

[ssamcmlpe]

1959

[Cindicado]

Maren! I raise your Love potion #9! A little mo-town! I love them both!!!<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3!!!

[aretiredfed]

looking for the orginal clovers recording that says 'wonder what would happen with love potion #10 anyone remember that one???

[baldgit646]

@aretiredfed Oh yes my friend, I FOUND A COPY ON CD LAST WEEK, IT TOOK ME AGES. INTERESTED ??????????

[Freyja1133]

@aretiredfed are, do ou meanthe ines I'm going back again for some love potion # 10?

this may on a lp some where

[michael144635]

@Freyja1133

I've heard that version too and I think it might be on the American Graffiti Soundtrack.

[skwalkerdevore]

Hmm, I saw this at my school and the sixth graders sung it, I'm not dissin this vid, but I liked it better (=

[edwardbellscullen]

@dkramnik the searchers did

[crazysquirrel7]

I have to say I'm confused. I'm not dissing this video, but this doesn't sound like the Clovers. I have a record of the Clovers doing this song and it's way different. Are you sure it's them?

PS no matter who does it, it's still a great song :)

[bscfan1]

I have to say my favorite s the searchers

[roseblood12344]

i perfer the coasters version

[mcwaddle]

too short

[TheLongestTone]

Not the original but not disgraceful

[Cleftonefan]

This is hard to take. It's not the marvelous Clovers' 1959 original on UA 180. That was their biggest pop hit ever. This is blasphemy.

[3plus4equals7]

this isnt the original

[djkramnik]

@3plus4equals7 who made the original?

[jakisemo]

@djkramnik This is the original the searchers did a cover

[HotPlatters1]

This IS NOT the original... It's a weak remake....

[TheElvis401]

@HotPlatters1 Jakisemo is right

[Freyja1133]

@HotPlatters1 Hot .what is your age? this is the oRIGINAL !

[Freyja1133]

@HotPlatters1 I agree with ou hotplatters..I had the original version of this song ona cd back in the late 80s

[Freyja1133]

@jakisemo you're right.. the searchers version is a all guitar cover of the song

[grubtub]

I have the original this Aint it No way

[77GetReady]

I AGREE !100% WITH grubtub, I too have The Clovers version of this song,and this aint it.....this must be a re-recording because it does'nt sound like its from the 1950's more like 1990's karaoke machine

[edweirdo]

Bogus remake...

[wierdchick711]

It's not a remake, it's the original song, the remake was the one by  The Searchers

[fullmetalkunai67]

and the other 5 or so bands that had to make a cover song of it

[GeoSilverMore]

Is this from the 1964 Grand Prix label LP "The Original LP#9" (falsely titled). Those were new recordings by a reconstituted Clovers.

I put a post on this subject but the audio is disabled because of the lp#10 version.

[SabraStiehl]

Does anyone know if "Crawling Instead of Balling" by the Clovers s in here someplace. I still remember the words to that from high school.. Sabra

[yongary01]

Or their version of "Down in the Alley" I miss that

[TheDanailama]

i think the song is just calle crawlin'!

[shanny099]

We do that song in Choir!!

[KhemuLuxons]

where is the original recording?!

[sourwhiterose99]

Actually, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (The writers of all the music for Smokey Joe's Cafe) wrote this song. Along with quite a few Elvis songs as well.

This was the first band to perform it outside the musical though.

[Jeny40000]

is this the original? if it isnt who is the original by?

[quinnpplgoinon]

No it is not.  It may be the Clovers singing, but it is not the version by the Clovers released as a single in December of 1959. I've heard two different versions of that "original:" One that ends as this one does, the other that ends with "I had so much fun that I'm goin' back again, wonder what'll happen with Love Potion #10. That's not the original either.

[MrBruceBarham]

this is the best version actually, original,,, the "mix it up right here in the sink" instead of "make it up right here in the sink" was way they read it..

[Freyja1133]

this sounds as if the tempos been sped up a bit..the version that I remember was  a bit slower than this one

[bellgardens53]

I second that....no good

[edweirdo]

What is this S*** ??.. No offense but this sounds like a bad 80's cover version of a classic Leiber-Stoller tune...