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"I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me)" is a song by the American blues singer Bobby Bland, written by the Michael Price and Dan Walsh, and first released as the second track on the album, Dreamer, in 1974.

Music critic Douglas Wolk describes the song as one "in which [Bland] managed to be both panoramic and startlingly intimate".

Background
Bland's former label, Duke had been sold to ABC-Dunhill in 1971 and his new label paired him with producer Steve Barri who "moved Bland back to a more bluesy vocal style". Michael Omartian was brought in to arrange and conduct the orchestra of session musicians on Bland's first album on the Dunhill label. Barri, Omartian, and largely the same group of session musicians returned to record the next LP entitled Dreamer. Songwriting duo Walsh and Price, who were writers for the label and had previously written for The Grass Roots, wrote "I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me)" and four other tracks for the album.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/dreamer-mw0000204218

Other versions

 * Rhythm Heritage, for whom Barri was producer and Omartian a keyboardist, covered the song. It was used as a B-Side to their number 1 single "Theme from S.W.A.T." in October 1975
 * Cher covered the song as a track on her studio album It's a Man's World in 1995
 * Mick Hucknell covered the song as a track on his first solo-album Tribute to Bobby in 2008