No More Doggin'
{{Infobox song
| cover = Roscoe-gordon-no-more-doggin-rpm-2-78.jpg
| type = Single
| artist = Roscoe Gordon
| B-side = Maria
| released = March 1952
| recorded = 1952
| genre = R&B
| label = RPM
| writer = Gordon
| prev_title = Booted
| prev_year = 1952
| next_title = What You Got On Your Mind
| next_year = 1952
}}
"No More Doggin'" is a rhythm and blues song written and originally recorded by blues musician Rosco Gordon in 1952. The song featured Gordon's signature "Rosco Rhythm" piano style which became a precursor to Jamaican ska music.{{Cite book|last=Broven|first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uFrYsNvmrvQC&q=No+More+Doggin'+ike+turner&pg=PA155|title=Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0-252-03290-5|pages=155|language=en}}
Recording and release
Rosco Gordon had originally been associated with the Beale Streeters, a loose coalition of Memphis, Tennessee musicians that also featured Johnny Ace, B.B. King, and Bobby "Blue" Bland, in the late 1940s.{{Cite news|date=July 22, 2002|title=Rosco Gordon, 74, Blues Singer Who Influenced Rock and Reggae|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/arts/rosco-gordon-74-blues-singer-who-influenced-rock-and-reggae.html|access-date=2020-05-28|issn=0362-4331}} In 1951, Gordon was scouted by Ike Turner to record for the Bihari brothers at Modern Records.{{Cite web|title=Roscoe Gordon|url=https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rosco-gordon/|date=July 11, 2013|website=All About Blues Music|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}} He reached the Billboard charts that fall with the single "Saddled The Cow (And Milked The Horse)," released on Modern's subsidiary, RPM Records, which peaked at No. 9 on the Most Played Juke Box R&B Records chart.{{Cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop00whit|title=Joel Whitburn's top R & B singles, 1942-1988|publisher=Record Research Inc.|year=1988|pages=170|isbn=9780898200683 |via=Internet Archive}} In March 1952, "Booted," topped the Best Selling R&B Records chart.{{Cite magazine|date=March 15, 1952|title=Best Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues Records|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/50s/1952/Billboard%201952-03-15.pdf|magazine=Billboard|pages=104}}
In early 1952, Gordon recorded "No More Doggin'" at musician Tuff Green's house in Memphis,{{Cite book|last=Salem|first=James M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNIN6UB5G_EC&q=No+More+Doggin%27+tuff+green&pg=PA37|title=The Late, Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R & B to Rock 'n' Roll'|date=2001|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-06969-7|pages=37|language=en}} backed by Ike Turner also on piano.{{Cite news|last=Selvin|first=Joel|date=September 14, 1997|title=POP QUIZ -- Q & A With Ike Turner|work=SFGATE|url=https://www.sfgate.com/music/popquiz/article/POP-QUIZ-Q-A-With-Ike-Turner-2807610.php|access-date=May 28, 2020}} "No More Doggin'" was released on RPM in March 1952.{{Cite magazine|date=March 22, 1952|title=Rhythm & Blues Record Reviews|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/50s/1952/Billboard%201952-03-22.pdf|magazine=Billboard|pages=38}} The record reached No. 3 on the Billboard Best Selling R&B Records chart on April 19, 1952.{{Cite magazine|date=April 19, 1952|title=Best Selling Retail R&B Records|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/50s/1952/Billboard%201952-04-19.pdf|magazine=Billboard|pages=34}} It peaked higher at No. 2 on the Most Played Juke Box R&B Records chart on May 10, 1952.{{Cite magazine|date=May 10, 1952|title=Most Played Juke Box Rhythm & Blues|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/50s/1952/Billboard%201952-05-10.pdf|magazine=Billboard|pages=35}}
Influence
Jamaican singer Laurel Aitken, one of the pioneers of ska, was inspired to record "Boogie in My Bones" (1958) after hearing "No More Doggin'. Influenced by Gordon's "Roscoe Rhythm" piano style, Aitken and fellow Jamaican musicians Owen Gray and Theophilus Beckford emulated the rhythm, adding guitar and horns.