the Composers

Most of the songs recorded by the Flames were covers. Here is a table of all the songs, together with the composer credits as they appear on the record labels. I have taken the liberty of correcting typographical or factual errors of which I'm certain. I have also included my best guess for the original performing artist(s) who first brought the song to fame or prominence. The album by the Flame isn't included here for the simple reason that there aren't any covers on it. This table will grow as more information becomes available (i.e. my collection grows!). I welcome all E-Mails with your additions and/or corrections.

TITLE	COMPOSER	ARTIST	Coll
A Place In The Sun	Mirror-Wells	Stevie Wonder	*
Blue Colour	R. Shorter	Gene Pitney	*
Bring Back The Time	Mark Charron	B.J. Thomas	*
Dixie	arr. Restell	Duane Eddy	*
Don't Ask Me What I Say	P. Jones	Manfred Mann	*
Don't Fight It	Picket-Cropper	Wilson Pickett	*
Don't Make Your Children Pay	Joe Tex	Joe Tex	*
Don't Play That Song	Ahmet Ertegun-Benjamin Nelson	Ben E. King	*
Down In The Valley	Solomon Burke	Otis Redding	*
Eight Days A Week	Lennon-McCartney	the Beatles	*
For Your Precious Love	Brooks-Butler	Jerry Butler & the Impressions	*
Glory Of Love	B. Hill	the Five Keys	*
Gone	Rogers	Smokey Rogers / Buddy Holly	*
He'll Only Hurt You	Dimucci, Sherman, Mavver, Farrell	Dion	*
Hold On I'm Coming	Porter-Hayes	Sam & Dave	*
I Can't Help Myself	Holland, Dozier & Holland	the Four Tops	*
If You Need Me	Pickett-Bateman-Sanders	Solomon Burke / Wilson Pickett / Rolling Stones	*/*/*
If You Think You're Groovy	Marriott-Lane	P.P. Arnold	*
Is It You	S. Fataar	the Flames	*
I Was Made To Love Her	Cosby-Wonder-Moy-Hardaway	Stevie Wonder	*
Knock On Wood	Floyd-Cropper	Eddy Floyd	*
Land Of A Thousand Dances	Kenner-Domino jr.	Wilson Pickett	*
Like A Baby	Madara-White-Barry	Len Barry	*
Like Strangers	B. Bryant	the Everly Brothers	*
Lost	Gamble-Huff-Butler	Jerry Butler	*
Love's Made A Fool Of You	Holly-Montgomery	Buddy Holly	*
Maniac	B. Kinsey	the Flames	*
Modern Casanova	B. Kinsey	the Flames	*
Mr. Moto	R. Dilvi	the Ventures	*
My Girl	William Robinson & Ronald White	the Temptations	*
My Guy	William Robinson	Mary Wells	*
Nobody Tells Me (What To Do)	Gene Rockwell	the Flames	*
No Reply	Lennon-McCartney	the Beatles	*
Ole Man Trouble	Otis Redding	Otis Redding	*
One Of These Days	W.M. Stevenson	Marvin Gaye	*
Pretty Woman	Orbison-Dees	Roy Orbison	*
Purple Haze	J. Hendrix	the Jimi Hendrix Experience	*
Purple Raindrops	Ted Hull	Stevie Wonder	*
Reach Out I'll Be There	E. & B. Holland-Dozier	the Four Tops	*
Respect	Otis Redding	Otis Redding	*
Restless	Addington ***	unknown
Satisfaction	Jagger-Richard	the Rolling Stones (Aretha Franklin)	*
See Me Back	T. Crane & J. Gustafson	the Merseybeats	*
Something You've Got	Kenner	Chris Kenner	*
Stagger Lee	Price-Logan	Lloyd Price	*
Stop Look And Listen	A. Cooke	Joe Tex	*
Stop Thief	Hayes-Porter-Shamwell	Carla Thomas	*
Streamliner	Colin Scott	the Flames	*
Take Me For A Little While	Martin	Evie Sands	*
I'm Talking About You **	Chuck Berry	Chuck Berry	*
Tell It Like It Is	G. Davis-L. Diamond	Aaron Neville	*
Tell Mama	Carter	Etta James	*
That's Enough	Raven Wildroot	Roscoe Robinson	*
The "In" Crowd	Billy Page	Ramsey Lewis / Dobie Gray	*
Things You Don't Forget	McCoy	Tom Jones	*
Thoko	N. Maseko	the Invaders	-
Try A Little Tenderness	Campbell-Woods-Connelly	Otis Redding	*
Ummm Oh Yeah	Burlington / Gibson - Baker ?	Buddy Holly	*
Useless Illusions (Nights In White Satin)	Fataar (Hayward)	the Flames (the Moody Blues)	*/*
When Something's Wrong With My Baby	Porter-Hayes	Sam & Dave	*
White Cliffs Of Dover	Burton-Kent	Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans	*
You Are My Sunshine	J. Davis-C. Mitchell	Ray Charles	*
You Better Move On	Alexander jr.	Arthur Alexander / Rolling Stones	*/*
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me	Donnaggio, Pallavicin,i Wickham, Napier-Bell	Dusty Springfield	*
You Keep Me Hanging On	E. & B. Holland-Dozier	the Supremes/Vanilla Fudge	*/*
You've Got It Made	Porter-Hayes	Sam & Dave	*

** On the Flames album this track is erroneously titled Talkin' 'Bout You and credited to Ray Charles. Whilst Ray Charles did write and perform a song by that name, the Flames' song is actually by Chuck Berry and is titled I'm Talking About You.

*** This credit is wrong. Sonny Burgess performs Restless written by Addington but it's another song.

Restless

Here is a list of artists whoalso composed tunes entitled Restless, but different to the song the Flames covered.

Sonny Burgess
Carl Perkins
Del Shannon
the Cobras
the Pirates (Johnny Kidd)
Squirrels
John Sheridan
Bobby Short
Brooks Williams
Gordon Lightfoot
Maxine Sullivan
Broadways
Crank Tones
Steve Dix
Buddy Knox
Los Infernos
Charlie Sexton
Paula West
Xzibit
Michael Chaplin (composed Warren-Julien)
Comsat Angels
Fairport Convention
Mark O'Connor
Elton John
The Sweet
George Thoroughgood And The Destroyers
Blue Rodeo
The Bangles