Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham - I'm Your Puppet (HQ)
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham were the great song writing duo who wrote among many excellent songs – I’m Your Puppet. Spooner Oldham also performed on many sessions at Muscle Shoals as an organist. Real name Dewey Lindon Oldham, his nickname ‘Spooner’ was a result of an accident in the kitchen when he was a child when he knocked a spoon off a shelf, blinding him in his right eye. School chums, ever sensitive to the feelings of others, gave him the ‘Spooner’ moniker as a result.
Their first song for FAME studios was James Barnett’s Keep On Talking.
They wrote or contributed to the writing of lots of Soulful songs:
Sweet Inspiration – The Sweet Inspirations.
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man – Aretha Franklin
It Tears Me Up – Percy Sledge
Dark End Of The Street – James Carr
You Left The Water Running – Maurice and Mac
I’m Your Puppet – James and Bobby Purify
All Soulful slow songs and much more popular at the time in the late sixties at The Blue Note club in Manchester, but did get played mid-week at The Twisted Wheel.