"Fannie Mae" | |
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Single by Buster Brown | |
B-side | "Lost in a Dream" |
Released | 1959 (U.S.) |
Recorded | 1959 |
Genre | R&B |
Length | 2:57 |
Label | Fire Records |
Songwriter(s) | Buster Brown |
"Fannie Mae" is a 1959 song, written and performed by the American blues and R&B singer, Buster Brown. [1]
The track made it into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, and to number one on the US Billboard R&B chart in April 1960. [2] AllMusic's Vladimir Bogdanov called the song "one of the most undiluted blues records to ever make the Top 40." [3]
The song is featured in the film American Graffiti (1973). [4]