Coquette

Song facts

“Coquette” is a song by Fats Domino, released as the B-Side of “Whole Lotta Loving” in October 1958. A cover by Paul McCartney appears on “Run Devil Run” released in 1999.

From the liner notes of “Run Devil Run”:

An obscure Fats Domino B-side. “It’s just me singing Fats. We tried fixing little bits of it because I thought ‘God, this is too much like a pub singer’ … but we ended up going back to the earliest mix, it just has a feeling“.

From an interview with Laura Gross (promotional interview for “Run Devil Run” in 1999):

Paul McCartney: Coquette was a B-side of Fats Domino’s, that, I always liked the tune. Hear me, why you been fooling, little Coquette. It’s just a charming little song and I always loved it, you know. And it was just one of mine that I always meant to do one of these days, either with the Beatles or, it never came up. So, I just remembered it. I thought, right, got to do that one. So that’s one, that’s got a bit of a retro sound. It’s, it’s really me doing Fats, you know. I love it so much that I couldn’t do it any other way.

Last updated on September 21, 2016

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