You're No Good
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| Single by Dee Dee Warwick | |
| B-side | "Don't Call Me" |
| Released | 1963 |
| Format | 7" single |
| Genre | R&B |
| Length | 2:30 |
| Label | Jubilee |
| Writer(s) | Clint Ballard, Jr. |
| Producer(s) | Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller |
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| Single by Betty Everett | ||||
| B-side | "Chained to Your Love" | |||
| Released | 1963 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Length | 2:18 | |||
| Label | Vee-Jay | |||
| Writer(s) | Clint Ballard, Jr. | |||
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| Single by The Swinging Blue Jeans | ||||
| B-side | "Don't You Worry About Me" | |||
| Released | May 1964 | |||
| Genre | Beat | |||
| Label | HMV | |||
| Writer(s) | Clint Ballard, Jr. | |||
| Producer(s) | Walter J. Ridley | |||
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| Single by Linda Ronstadt | ||||
| from the album Heart Like a Wheel | ||||
| B-side | "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)" (w/ Emmylou Harris) | |||
| Released | November 19, 1974 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 3:44 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Writer(s) | Clint Ballard, Jr. | |||
| Producer(s) | Peter Asher | |||
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"You're No Good" is a song written by Clint Ballard, Jr., first performed by Dee Dee Warwick for Jubilee Records in 1963 with production by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It has since been covered by many artists, including charting versions by Betty Everett in 1963, The Swinging Blue Jeans in 1964, and Linda Ronstadt in 1975, whose version was a number 1 hit in the United States.
The song first became a hit in November 1963 when recorded by Betty Everett for Vee-Jay Records of Chicago. The single peaked at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100, and at number 5 on "Cashbox's R&B Locations" chart.
Vee-Jay's head a&r man Calvin Carter found the song while visiting New York City in search of material for his label's roster and he originally intended to cut "You're No Good" with Dee Clark but, he recalled: "when I went to rehearsal with the tune, it was so negative, I said, 'Hey, guys don't talk negative about girls, because girls are the record buyers. No, I better pass on that.' So I gave the song to Betty Everett." During the playback of Everett's track her label-mates the Dells "were sitting on the wooden platform where the string players would sit... just stomping their feet on this wooden platform to the beat of the song as it was playing back... I told the engineer 'Let's do it again, and let's mic those foot sounds, 'cause it really gave it a hell of a beat.' So we did that, and boom, a hit."
In the UK the Swinging Blue Jeans had the hit version of "You're No Good" reaching number 3 in the summer of 1964. Sue Johnston, then PA to Peter Brown, was dating Swinging Blue Jeans drummer Norman Kuhlke and claims that she brought "You're No Good" to the attention of the Swinging Blue Jeans. Their version also charted in France at number 26 and was successful enough regionally in the US to reach number 97 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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