title: Let Me Play with Your Poodle (song)
text: # Let Me Play with Your Poodle (song)
  
  "Let Me Play With Your Poodle" is a 1942 hokum blues song by the American blues musician Tampa Red. His recording reached #4 on the Billboard "Harlem Hit Parade" in March 1943, after first hitting the chart in December 1942, and the song has been recorded many times since by other artists.
  
  ## Other notable recordings
  
  * Bonnie Davis and the Piccadilly Pipers (1946)
  * Hank Penny (1947)
  * Lightnin' Hopkins (1947) and again in 1969, on his album The Great Electric Show and Dance, which was released in 1970.
  * Luke "Long Gone" Miles (with George "Harmonica" Smith) (1962)
  * Piano Red (1977, on an album of the same name)
  * CeDell Davis (1982, on the compilation album Living Country Blues USA Vol. 5 - Mississippi Delta Blues)
  * Dana Gillespie (1982, on the album Blue Job)
  * James Cotton (1996, on the Grammy-winning album Deep in the Blues)
  * Marcia Ball (1997, on her album Let Me Play With Your Poodle)
  * Duke Robillard Band (2011)
  * Mark Hummel (2020, on his album Wayback Machine)
  