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What smoking music are you listening to? (2024)

WW, History, Trivia

Red Rooster (later Little Red Rooster) is considered a modern blues classic. written and arranged by Willie Dixon in 1959-60. At that time there were people still alive that said Howling Wolf had been doing a variation of the song as early as the mid 1930's so it is fitting that he did the first recorded version in 1961. Howling Wolf went on the American Folkways tour in the UK in 1963 where a few members of a fairly new group went to see him play what they had only heard on imported records and in 1964 The Rolling Stones recorded their own version. That single made history twice. It was the first recording by any major UK group of a "modern" blues song and second, it was and still is the only Blues song to reach #1 on the UK charts.

Blondie Blues?

Big Mama Willie Mae Thornton - a popular variation with animal sounds.

I'll let you fine folks lookup the Howling Wolf and Rolling Stones versions if you are interested. It is Women's Wednesday after all.
 
AVB said:
WW, History, Trivia

Red Rooster (later Little Red Rooster) is considered a modern blues classic. written and arranged by Willie Dixon in 1959-60. At that time there were people still alive that said Howling Wolf had been doing a variation of the song as early as the mid 1930's so it is fitting that he did the first recorded version in 1961. Howling Wolf went on the American Folkways tour in the UK in 1963 where a few members of a fairly new group went to see him play what they had only heard on imported records and in 1964 The Rolling Stones recorded their own version. That single made history twice. It was the first recording by any major UK group of a "modern" blues song and second, it was and still is the only Blues song to reach #1 on the UK charts.

Blondie Blues?

Big Mama Willie Mae Thornton - a popular variation with animal sounds.

I'll let you fine folks lookup the Howling Wolf and Rolling Stones versions if you are interested. It is Women's Wednesday after all.
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I'd visit Camp Funtime ... 😛
 
This song was a staple of progressive rock FM stations for decades after it;s release in late 1971 and yet it has no lead guitar even though Steve Winwood is known for his guitar playing too.


Incidental trivia: High Heeled Boys was English slang for an assassin although that is totally unrelated to the song.
 
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