“Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Idiot for You Child)” is a Prime 30 hit for Lulu which charted in 1969–70; the tune has been most notably remade by Aretha Franklin and Tina Area.
Lulu’s version
“Oh Me Oh My…” was written by Jim Doris who – as Jimmy Doris – had been vocalist-guitarist for the Stoics, a band which shaped in Lulu’s native Glasgow within the late Sixties and whose membership had included Frankie Miller. Doris contributed one other tune to “Oh Me Oh My…”‘s mum or dad album New Routes, entitled “After All (I Dwell My Life)”, and his composition “Take Good Care of Your self” was featured on the follow-up album Melody Truthful. Reportedly Doris subsequently went into A&R work earlier than being sidelined by psychological instability which factored into his being killed when run over by a bus in London within the late Eighties or early Nineteen Nineties.
The advance single from Lulu’s Atco Information debut album New Routes, “Oh Me Oh My…”, was launched in October 1969. A radical change of route for Lulu, who was coming off her greatest ever UK chart putting at #2 with the Eurovision winner “Growth Bang-a-Bang”, the transfer to a extra mature sound with “Oh Me Oh My…” was unappreciated within the UK the place the monitor barely reached the Prime 50. Within the US, “Oh Me Oh My…” ranked as excessive as #4 in Birmingham, Alabama in November 1969 however nationally charted solely as a average Simple Listening hit at #36. A number of performances by Lulu on US tv helped break “Oh Me Oh My…” into the Billboard Scorching 100 in December 1969 after which buoy the monitor because it progressively gained momentum to grow to be Lulu’s first Prime 30 hit since “To Sir With Love” on the finish of February 1970: “Oh Me Oh My…” would peak at #22 that March (Money Field ranked the monitor with a #18 peak).
In Australia the Go-Set Prime 40 chart ranked “Oh Me Oh My…” with a #33 peak in January 1970. The RPM 100 chart for Canada ranked “Oh Me Oh My…” as excessive as #16 in March 1970; that very same month the New Zealand Listener Pop-o-meter chart ranked “Oh Me Oh My…” as excessive as #12.1
Lulu recorded a translated model of “Oh Me Oh My…” for launch in Italy, entitled “Povera Me”; the monitor was launched in June 1970 to no obvious consideration regardless of a promotional junket by Lulu that July.
The one nationwide hit parade out there for New Zealand 1966–1975, the Pop-o-meter chart, didn’t replicate gross sales, fairly being a ballot compiled from voting coupons despatched in by NZ Listener readers.
