You 're No Good - wikipedia You 're No Good This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2014 ) `` You 're No Good '' Single by Dee Dee Warwick B - side `` Do n't Call Me '' Released 1963 Format 7 '' single Genre R&B Length 2 : 30 Label Jubilee Songwriter ( s ) Clint Ballard, Jr. Producer ( s ) Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller `` You 're No Good '' is a song written by Clint Ballard, Jr., first performed by Dee Dee Warwick for Jubilee Records in 1963 with production by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It has since been covered by many artists, including charting versions by Betty Everett in 1963, The Swinging Blue Jeans in 1964, and Linda Ronstadt in 1975, whose version was a number 1 hit in the United States. Contents 1 Betty Everett version 2 The Swinging Blue Jeans version 3 Linda Ronstadt version 3.1 Background 3.2 Reception and legacy 3.3 Chart performance 3.3. 1 Weekly charts 3.3. 2 Year - end charts 4 Other versions 5 References 6 External links Betty Everett version `` You 're No Good '' Single by Betty Everett B - side `` Chained to Your Love '' Released 1963 Format 7 '' single Genre R&B Length 2 : 18 Label Vee - Jay Songwriter ( s ) Clint Ballard, Jr. Betty Everett singles chronology `` Prince of Players '' ( 1963 ) `` You 're No Good '' ( 1963 ) `` The Shoop Shoop Song ( It 's in His Kiss ) '' ( 1964 ) `` Prince of Players '' ( 1963 ) `` You 're No Good '' ( 1963 ) `` The Shoop Shoop Song ( It 's in His Kiss ) '' ( 1964 ) The song first became a hit in November 1963 when recorded by Betty Everett for Vee - Jay Records of Chicago. The single peaked at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100, and at number 5 on `` Cashbox 's R&B Locations '' chart. Vee - Jay 's head a&r man Calvin Carter found the song while visiting New York City in search of material for his label 's roster and he originally intended to cut `` You 're No Good '' with Dee Clark but, he recalled : `` when I went to rehearsal with the tune, it was so negative, I said, ' Hey, guys do n't talk negative about girls, because girls are the record buyers. No, I better pass on that. ' So I gave the song to Betty Everett. '' During the playback of Everett 's track her label - mates the Dells `` were sitting on the wooden platform where the string players would sit... just stomping their feet on this wooden platform to the beat of the song as it was playing back... I told the engineer ' Let 's do it again, and let 's mic those foot sounds, ' cause it really gave it a hell of a beat. ' So we did that, and boom, a hit. '' The Swinging Blue Jeans version `` You 're No Good '' Single by The Swinging Blue Jeans B - side `` Do n't You Worry About Me '' Released May 1964 Genre Beat Label HMV Songwriter ( s ) Clint Ballard, Jr. Producer ( s ) Walter J. Ridley The Swinging Blue Jeans singles chronology `` Good Golly Miss Molly '' ( String Module Error : Match not found ) `` You 're No Good '' ( 1964 ) `` Promise You 'll Tell Her '' ( String Module Error : Match not found ) `` Good Golly Miss Molly '' ( 3 / 1964 ) `` You 're No Good '' ( 5 / 1964 ) `` Promise You 'll Tell Her '' ( 8 / 1964 ) In the UK the Swinging Blue Jeans had the hit version of `` You 're No Good '' reaching number 3 in the summer of 1964. Sue Johnston, then PA to Peter Brown, was dating Swinging Blue Jeans drummer Norman Kuhlke and claims that she brought `` You 're No Good '' to the attention of the Swinging Blue Jeans. Their version also charted in France at number 26 and was successful enough regionally in the US to reach number 97 on the Billboard Hot 100. Linda Ronstadt version `` You 're No Good '' Single by Linda Ronstadt from the album Heart Like a Wheel B - side `` I Ca n't Help It ( If I 'm Still in Love With You ) '' ( w / Emmylou Harris ) Released November 19, 1974 Format 7 '' single Genre Soft rock Length 3 : 44 Label Capitol Songwriter ( s ) Clint Ballard, Jr. Producer ( s ) Peter Asher Linda Ronstadt singles chronology `` Love Has No Pride '' ( 1974 ) `` You 're No Good '' ( 1974 ) `` When Will I Be Loved '' ( 1975 ) `` Love Has No Pride '' ( 1974 ) `` You 're No Good '' ( 1974 ) `` When Will I Be Loved '' ( 1975 ) Background Linda Ronstadt began performing `` You 're No Good '' to close her live shows in early 1973, after her band member Kenny Edwards suggested it to her. She first included it in her setlist while opening for Neil Young. Ronstadt gave an early televised performance of `` You 're No Good '' on an episode of The Midnight Special which was broadcast December 21, 1973. Ronstadt recorded her Heart Like a Wheel album with producer Peter Asher in the summer of 1974 at the Sound Factory ; `` You 're No Good '' was a last - minute choice for recording, and while the song was Ronstadt 's suggestion, Asher recalls : `` It was an odd coincidence. She 'd been doing the song already, and it was always a favorite song of mine... the version I fell in love with ( being by ) the Swinging Blue Jeans ''. The original backing track intended for Ronstadt 's version of `` You 're No Good '' was recorded July 1, 1974. According to Bob Warford, a guitarist in Ronstadt 's touring band who played on the July 1 track, `` They were trying to do an R&B version of the song, which was actually closer to the way we did it live than to the released version. We played it at a faster tempo live, which we did on that recording ( ie. of July 1 ). '' Ronstadt vetoed the July 1 arrangement ; she recalls : `` It was just the wrong groove for me. I do n't think I knew how to phrase around ( the players ), certainly no fault of theirs. They were fantastic. '' The final recording of the Ronstadt version of `` You 're No Good '' was made July 5, 1974. Ronstadt would recall : `` Ed Black, who played six - string guitar and pedal steel, started to play a rhythm riff on his Les Paul. Kenny Edwards... the bass player... echoed the riff in octaves. Andrew Gold added a sparse drum track, giving me a basic track to sing over. We did a few takes, picked one we liked, and then Andrew, who always played guitars and keyboards went to work with Peter ( Asher ) and began to work up layers of guitar, piano and percussion tracks. '' Ronstadt recalls that during a playback after several hours of work, Val Garay, the engineer, accidentally erased Andrew Gold 's guitar solo from the track, necessitating Asher and Gold 's reconstructing that solo from scratch. In late August 1974 a string arrangement - by Gregory Rose - was added to the track at AIR Studios. According to a Classic Tracks article by Mick Hurwitz at MixOnline.com : `` It ends with a strong, long held note, which Asher conceived, executed by Garay with a slow riding of the level on the string faders during the final mix. '' Capitol Records was unsure whether to release `` You 're No Good '' or `` When Will I Be Loved '' as the lead single off Heart Like a Wheel, only deciding to release `` You 're No Good '' a week after the album 's release. Reception and legacy Linda Ronstadt 's version of `` You 're No Good '' became the song 's most successful cover. The track ascended to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated February 15, 1975. `` You 're No Good '' was also an international hit for Ronstadt, reaching number 15 in Australia, number 17 in the Netherlands, and number 24 in New Zealand. The B - side of `` You 're No Good '', `` I Ca n't Help It ( If I 'm Still in Love With You ), originally sung by Hank Williams, also charted and was simultaneously a number 2 C&W hit for Ronstadt. `` When Will I Be Loved '' was then issued as the follow - up single. Buoyed in part by the success of `` You 're No Good '', the album Heart Like a Wheel, which was released in late 1974, was a major success, and eventually went double platinum. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The success of `` You 're No Good '' set a precedent for Ronstadt 's single releases which over the next five years would virtually all be remakes of classic rock and roll songs. In a 1983 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Ronstadt expressed reservations about the recordings she had made during her 1970s heyday, specifically citing `` You 're No Good '' : `` I thought the production on ' You 're No Good ' was very good but ( that ) I did n't sing it very well. As a song it was just an afterthought. It 's not the kind of song I got a lot of satisfaction out of singing. '' Chart performance Weekly charts Chart ( 1974 -- 75 ) Peak position Australia 15 Canada Top Singles 7 Canada Adult Contemporary Netherlands 17 New Zealand 24 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 10 U.S. Cash Box Top 100 Year - end charts Chart ( 1975 ) Rank Australia 93 Canada 97 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 50 U.S. Cash Box 69 Preceded by `` Fire '' by Ohio Players Billboard Hot 100 number - one single ( Linda Ronstadt version ) February 15, 1975 ( one week ) Succeeded by `` Pick Up the Pieces '' by The Average White Band Other versions Artists who have covered `` You 're No Good '' include : Graham Bonney Alma Cogan ( unreleased ) Elvis Costello Dusty Springfield Ike & Tina Turner Reba McEntire The Muppets Jose Feliciano Lulu Aswad Michael Bolton as Michael Bolotin Ellie Campbell Keith Hampshire Jill Johnson Rosie & The Originals Little Milton Annie Schilder Floortje Smit Van Halen ( on Van Halen II ) Wild Orchid. The 2004 album release California by Wilson Phillips contains a version of `` You 're No Good '' which like the Ronstadt version was produced by Peter Asher but radically reinvents the song. International renderings include Finnish versions, `` Olet Paha '', a 1964 single release by Eddy and the Boys, and `` Paha Oot '' on the 1975 album Bimbo by Marion Rung. The Plastiscines ' 2009 cover version from their album About Love was featured on season 6 episode 3 of True Blood, `` You 're No Good ''. Genya Ravan has indicated she vainly attempted to interest the producer of her 1974 album Goldie Zelkovitz in the idea of a remake of `` You 're No Good ''. Maria Muldaur, discussing in a 1985 interview how she `` did n't go out of ( her ) way to find followup hits '' to her 1973 - 74 breakthrough `` Midnight at the Oasis '', cited `` You 're No Good '' when explaining : `` I 've turned down songs that have gone on to be hits for other people because I thought the lyrics were negative or neurotic ''. References ^ Jump up to : Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). Top R&B / Hip - Hop Singles : 1942 - 2004. Record Research. p. 193. Jump up ^ `` The Vee - Jay Story, Page 3 ''. Bsnpubs.com. Retrieved 2014 - 03 - 18. Jump up ^ Johnston, Sue ( 201 ). Things I Could n't Tell My Mother ( e-book ed. ). New York : Random House. ISBN 9781409034698. Jump up ^ Knowles, Christopher ( 1 October 2010 ). `` The Secret History of Rock ' n ' Roll ''. Simon and Schuster -- via Google Books. ^ Jump up to : `` Classic Track : You 're No Good ''. MixOnline.com. Retrieved 25 June 2015. Jump up ^ Ronstadt, Linda ( 2013 ). Simple Dreams : a musical memoir ( 1st hardcover ed. ). New York : Simon & Schuster. pp. 96 -- 97. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4516 - 6872 - 8. Jump up ^ The New York Times, 15 November 1974, p. 32 Jump up ^ `` Ronstadt Marching to a Different Drum '', The Deseret News, 14 December 1993 p. 4 - SO Jump up ^ `` Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada ''. Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016 - 08 - 18. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 2016 - 04 - 26. Retrieved 2016 - 04 - 26. Jump up ^ David Kent 's Australian Chart Book 1970 - 1992 Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada ''. www.collectionscanada.gc.ca. Jump up ^ `` Top 100 Hits of 1975 / Top 100 Songs of 1975 ''. Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016 - 08 - 18. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 2014 - 10 - 21. Retrieved 2015 - 01 - 17. Jump up ^ Sarasota Herald Tribune 21 October 1985 p. 94 External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Linda Ronstadt Stone Poneys albums The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt Evergreen, Volume 2 Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III Studio albums Hand Sown... Home Grown Silk Purse Linda Ronstadt Do n't Cry Now Heart Like a Wheel Prisoner in Disguise Hasten Down the Wind Simple Dreams Living in the USA Mad Love Get Closer What 's New Lush Life For Sentimental Reasons Canciones de Mi Padre Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind Mas Canciones Frenesí Winter Light Feels Like Home Dedicated to the One I Love We Ran A Merry Little Christmas Hummin ' to Myself Collaborations Trio Santiago Trio II Western Wall : The Tucson Sessions Adieu False Heart Compilations Different Drum Greatest Hits Greatest Hits, Volume 2 The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt Mi Jardin Azul : Las Canciones Favoritas Duets Hit singles `` Different Drum '' `` Long, Long Time '' `` You 're No Good '' `` When Will I Be Loved '' `` Heat Wave '' `` Love Is a Rose '' `` The Tracks of My Tears '' `` That 'll Be the Day '' `` Blue Bayou '' `` It 's So Easy '' `` Poor Poor Pitiful Me '' `` Tumbling Dice '' `` Back in the U.S.A. '' `` Ooh Baby Baby '' `` Just One Look '' `` Alison '' `` How Do I Make You '' `` Hurt So Bad '' `` I Ca n't Let Go '' `` I Knew You When '' `` What 's New ? '' `` Somewhere Out There `` Do n't Know Much '' `` All My Life '' `` When Something Is Wrong With My Baby '' `` Walk On '' Related topics Discography Mr. Plow Book Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=You%27re_No_Good&oldid=804146071 '' Categories : 1963 singles 1963 songs 1964 singles 1974 singles Betty Everett songs Billboard Hot 100 number - one singles Capitol Records singles Linda Ronstadt songs Jubilee Records singles Song recordings produced by Peter Asher Songs written by Clint Ballard Jr. Van Halen songs Vee - Jay Records singles His Master 's Voice singles Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Articles needing additional references from March 2014 All articles needing additional references Articles with hAudio microformats Music infoboxes with Module : String errors Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Norsk Português Edit links This page was last edited on 7 October 2017, at 01 : 45. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote the song you're no good
Answer: Clint Ballard, Jr.