Georgie Fame - You Can't Do That

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"You Can't Do That" is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and released by The Beatles as the B-side of their sixth UK single "Can't Buy Me Love." * Vanilla Fudge covered it on their second album, The Beat Goes On. * Andy Ellison recorded a version. * Amanda Overmyer sang a faster rendition of the song on the Top 12 show of American Idol (season 7) and likewise recorded a studio version of the song. * The Punkles did a cover of this song on their 1998-2003 album. * The Supremes covered the song on their 1964 album A Bit of Liverpool.

Fame took piano lessons from the age of seven and after leaving Leigh Central County Secondary School at 15, he worked for a brief period in a cotton weaving mill and played piano for a band called The Dominoes in the evenings. After taking part in a singing contest at the Butlins Holiday Camp in Pwllheli, North Wales he was offered a job there by the band leader, early British rock'n'roll star Rory Blackwell.

At sixteen years of age, Fame went to London and entered into a management agreement with Larry Parnes, who had given new stage names to such artists as Marty Wilde and Billy Fury. Fame later recalled that Parnes had given him an ultimatum over his forced change of name:
" [It] was very much against my will but he said, "If you don't use my name, I won't use you in the show". "

Over the following year he toured the UK playing beside Wilde, Joe Brown, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and others. Fame played piano for Billy Fury in his backing band "The Blue Flames". When the backing band got the sack at the end of 1961, the band were re-billed as "Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames" and went on to enjoy great success with a repertoire largely of rhythm and blues numbers. Fame enjoyed residences at a number of Soho nightclubs such as "The Flamingo" and "The Whiskey-A-Go-Go" (site of the latter day WAG Club) in Soho's Wardour Street. The clientele of The Flamingo were particularly cosmopolitan. Half were West Indian while, Fame later recalled, ".. the other half were black American GIs mixed up with a few gangsters and pimps and prostitutes". The West Indian "Lucky" Gordon, and Johnny Edgecombe were, according to Fame, "... both involved with Christine Keeler ...". Gordon's brother, "Psycho" Gordon, occasionally joined Fame's group on stage.

One young musician who opened with Fame on 26 December 1966 for three weeks in the "Fame in '67 Show" at London's Saville Theatre was Cat Stevens, who at that point had released only his first hit song, "I Love My Dog." Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were the only act from the UK to be invited to perform with the first Motown Review in the UK in the mid-1960s. The 'Tamla Motown Package Show' was a 21 date UK tour featuring, amongst others, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas.

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[babykeepgroovin]

Thanks I love Georgie Fame, he's one groovy guy man!

[Muddyrich]

Nilsson covered this too, with some notorious liberties...

[StanRobak]

Coolest thing Ever!

[anastasiamoda]

why does this video appear when you type johnny edgecombe . what was the connection

[willminkorea2010]

Good version

[Teriann156]

But Georgie can!



[ivocoser]

The female coral is terrific.

[bipolarbert]

i like it wen u get plenty of info as well as the movie !

[Sprongo]

Best middle-eight in history.