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词条 The Girl Can't Help It (song)
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  1. Cover Versions

  2. Notes and references

  3. External links

{{Refimprove|date=August 2016}}{{Infobox song
| name = The Girl Can't Help It
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Little Richard
| album =
| B-side = All Around the World
| released = December 1956
| format = 7" single
| recorded = October 16, 1956
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Rock and roll
| length =
| label = Specialty Records
| writer = Bobby Troup
| producer =
| prev_title = She's Got It
| prev_year = 1956
| next_title = Lucille
| next_year = 1957

}}"The Girl Can't Help It" is the title song to the film The Girl Can't Help It, with words and music by songwriter Bobby Troup. It was performed by Little Richard and was released in December 1956 (see 1956 in music). In the US, the song peaked at #49 on the Billboard Top 100 singles chart and #7 on the R&B Best Sellers Chart.[1] Overseas, "The Girl Can't Help It" peaked at #9 in the UK. It was included on the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at #413. Originally, Fats Domino was lined up to record the track, which was not written as a rock song.[2]

Cover Versions

The Animals covered it on both their US debut album The Animals, on MGM Records and their UK debut album also called The Animals, on Columbia (EMI) in 1964. In 1965 by The Everly Brothers, in 1969 by The Flamin' Groovies, in 1970 by Led Zeppelin, in 1975 by Mick Ronson, and in 2001 by Babes in Toyland.{{cn|date=January 2015}}

American singer Fergie sampled the song for her 2007 single "Clumsy" and the cover by House DJ Duo, LMFAO, also the title of the original Little Richard song "Girl Can't Help It".{{cn|date=January 2015}}

The song was also used in commercials for Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The advertising slogan was "You just can't help chewing".{{cn|date=January 2015}}

The music appears in the 1972 film Pink Flamingos directed by John Waters and starring Divine.{{cn|date=January 2015}}

A gender-reversed version, "The Boy Can't Help It", appears on Bonnie Raitt's 1979 album The Glow.{{cn|date=January 2015}}

Notes and references

1. ^{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=356}}
2. ^ Liner Notes by Ray Tapping, for Little Richard The Speciality Sessions Box Set, 1989

External links

  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTxZqAmaVeA The Girl Can't Help It] Little Richard YouTube
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