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1959 single by Buster Brown
"Fannie Mae"
Single by Buster Brown
B-side"Lost in a Dream"
Released1959 (U.S.)
Recorded1959
GenreR&B
Length2:57
LabelFire Records
Songwriter(s)Buster Brown

"Fannie Mae" is a 1959 song, written and performed by the American blues and R&B singer, Buster Brown.

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. AllMusic's Vladimir Bogdanov called the song "one of the most undiluted blues records to ever make the Top 40."

Chart performance

In popular culture

The song is featured in the film American Graffiti (1973).

Recorded versions

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