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Written by Don Robey, also Share Your Love With Me (Aretha Franklin), Turn on Your Love Light and Gotta Get to Know You (Foghat)
Part of Two Steps From the Blues, also Cry Cry Cry, I’ve Been Wrong So Long and I’m Not Ashamed
Released on Duke, also Turn on Your Love Light, Touch of the Blues and The Clock (Johnny Ace)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Don Robey wrote 8 of Bobby “Blue” Bland’s top 10 songs
Don Robey wrote 30 songs on fono
Don Robey’s most frequent co-writer is Joseph Scott (3 songs together)
Credits
All 3 credits
- Written by
- Don Robey
- Part of
- Two Steps From the Blues
- Released on
- Duke
- Written by
- Don Robey
- Part of
- Two Steps From the Blues
- Released on
- Duke
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Don Robey
Same release: Two Steps From the Blues
Same label: Duke
Same release: Two Steps From the Blues
Same label: Duke
Same writer: Don Robey
Same release: Two Steps From the Blues
Same label: Duke
Elsewhere
Sources (4)
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1MusicBrainz I Pity the Fool was written by Don Robey
I Pity the Fool was written by Don Robey
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz I Pity the Fool is part of the release Two Steps From the Blues
I Pity the Fool is part of the release Two Steps From the Blues
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
3MusicBrainz Duke is the label of the song I Pity the Fool
Duke is the label of the song I Pity the Fool
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz I Pity the Fool was released on 1961