Take Out Some Insurance

"Take Out Some Insurance"
"Take Out Some Insurance" single
Single by Jimmy Reed
from the album Rockin' with Reed
B-side"You Know I Love You"
ReleasedApril 1959 (1959-04)
GenreChicago blues
Length2:22
LabelVee-Jay (Cat. no.314)
Songwriter(s)Charles Singleton, Waldenese Hall (credited to Jesse Stone)
Jimmy Reed singles chronology
"I Told You Baby"
(1959)
"Take Out Some Insurance"
(1959)
"Going to New York"
(1959)

"Take Out Some Insurance" is a blues song released in 1959 by Jimmy Reed written by Charles Singleton and Waldenese Hall but originally credited to Jesse Stone. The copyright registration for the song lists its title as "Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby".. Tony Sheridan recorded it with different lyrics in 1961 with The Beatles as his backing band. Misidentified, it was released in Germany in 1964 as "If You Love Me, Baby (Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby)" but subsequently as "Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby (If You Love Me, Baby)" , "Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby" or erroneously as "If eou Love Me, Baby" .