| Shake the Hand of a Fool | |
| Cover: | Titus Turner Shake the Hand of a Fool.jpg |
| Type: | promotional single |
| Artist: | Titus Turner |
| B-Side: | Beautiful Stranger |
| Released: | September 1961 |
| Recorded: | 1961 |
| Genre: | R&B |
| Length: | 2:02 |
| Label: | Jamie |
| Prev Title: | The More We Get Together |
| Prev Year: | 1960 |
| Next Title: | Horsin' Around |
| Next Year: | 1961 |
| Serre la main d'un fou | |
| Cover: | Johnny Hallyday Serre la main d'un fou.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Language: | French |
| Artist: | Johnny Hallyday |
| B-Side: | Dans un jardin d'amour |
| Released: | May 16, 1962 |
| Recorded: | 1962 |
| Genre: | Rock and roll |
| Length: | 2:45 |
| Label: | Philips |
| Producer: | Lee Hallyday |
| Prev Title: | I Got a Woman |
| Prev Year: | 1962 |
| Next Title: | Madison Twist |
| Next Year: | 1962 |
"Shake the Hand of a Fool" is a song by written by American singer-songwriter Margie Singleton[1] and recorded by R&B singer Titus Turner, released as a non-album promotional single on Jamie Records in 1961.[2] Though Turner's original English-language recording failed to chart, the song would become a hit in France and French Belgium through a French-language adaption by Jil & Jan titled "Serre la main d'un fou" a year later by French musician Johnny Hallyday, released as a single by Philips Records that May.[3] [4] [5] Hallyday also covered the original English version as the opening track on his first foreign-language and English-language studio album "Sings America's Rockin' Hits" earlier in 1962 but was not released as a single nor charted.[6] [7] [8] Hallyday's version also re-entered the French charts in 2000 and peaked at Number 45.[9]
Promotional single (1961, Jamie 1202)[10]
Serre la main d'un fou / Laissez-nous twister / Dans un jardin d'amour / Une fille comme toi (1962, Philips 432.780 BE)[11]
| Chart (1962) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| France (SNEP)[12] | 10 | |
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[13] | 19 |