Devil or Angel

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title: "Devil or Angel" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1955-songs", "1960-singles", "the-clovers-songs", "bobby-vee-songs", "the-hollywood-flames-songs", "atco-records-singles"] description: "1956 song performed by The Clovers" topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_or_Angel" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary 1956 song performed by The Clovers ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox song"]

Field	Value
name	Devil or Angel
type	single
artist	The Clovers
B-side	Hey, Doll Baby
released	January 1956
recorded	1955
genre	R&B
length
label	Atlantic
writer	Blanche Carter
prev_title	Nip Sip
prev_year	1955
next_title	Love, Love, Love
next_year	1956
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| name = Devil or Angel | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = The Clovers | album = | B-side = Hey, Doll Baby | released = January 1956 | format = | recorded = 1955 | studio = | venue = | genre = R&B | length = | label = Atlantic | writer = Blanche Carter | producer = | prev_title = Nip Sip | prev_year = 1955 | next_title = Love, Love, Love | next_year = 1956

| name = Devil or Angel | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Bobby Vee | album = Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites | B-side = Since I Met You Baby | released = June 21, 1960 | format = | recorded = 1960 | studio = | venue = | genre = Pop | length = 2:15 | label = Liberty | writer = Blanche Carter | producer = | prev_title = One Last Kiss | prev_year = 1960 | next_title = Since I Met You Baby | next_year = 1960

"Devil or Angel" is a song written by Blanche Carter and originally recorded by the Clovers in 1955, where it went to number four on the US R&B Best Sellers chart. It was re-recorded by John Bailey after he left the Clovers and formed another Clovers group for Lana Records in 1965.

Later versions

• The song was recorded by Bobby Vee, with veteran session drummer Earl Palmer among the studio musicians, and reached number 6 in the US charts in 1960, and number 2 in Canada. It was Vee's first Top 10 hit. This version was also a crossover hit on the R&B chart.
• It was later recorded by both Johnny Crawford and Jesse Winchester. Neither of those versions charted on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
• The Hollywood Flames released a version of the song as a single in 1960.
• Tony Scotti recorded the song in 1969. The single peaked at #117 on Billboard's "Bubbling Under" chart.
• Ezra Furman recorded a cover of the song featured in Netflix's Sex Education.

References

References

1. "secondhandsongs.com".
2. Whitburn, Joel. (2004). "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004". Record Research.
3. "CHUM Hit Parade - October 10, 1960".
4. Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, foreword by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999 p. 175
5. Whitburn, Joel The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, Billboard Books, New York, 1992
6. "BMI Repertoire Search".
7. [http://www.45cat.com/record/456171 The Hollywood Flames, "Devil or Angel" single release] Retrieved February 4, 2016.
8. Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 12th Edition, Record Research Inc, Menomonee Falls WI, 2009
9. Spencer, Samuel. (2020-01-17). "All the songs from the new season of "Sex Education"".

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