Help Me
| Help Me | |
|---|---|
| Sonny Boy Williamson II | |
| publication | 1963 |
| length | 3 min 07 sec |
| Genre (s) | Blues , Chicago blues |
| Author (s) | Sonny Boy Williamson II, Willie Dixon, Ralph Bass |
| Award (s) | Blues Foundation Hall of Fame 1987 |
| album | More Folk Blues (1966, Chess 1509) |
Help Me is a blues standard written by Sonny Boy Williamson II , Willie Dixon and Ralph Bass and published in 1963 by Sonny Boy Williamson on Chess , or their sub-label Checker (catalog number 1036). The song is based on the instrumental hit Green Onions by Booker T. & the MG's On the B-side of the single is the track Bye Bye Bird . The song was produced by Willie Dixon.
Help Me reached number 24 in the Billboard - Rhythm-and-blues -charts. The song was also a hit in Great Britain. As a special honor, the song was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame (Category: Classic Blues Recordings).
There are numerous cover versions of the piece, including by Joan Osborne , Junior Wells , Canned Heat , Ten Years After , George "Harmonica" Smith , Luther Allison , Van Morrison , The James Cotton Band, Sugar Blue, Peter Green Splinter Group, Billy Branch & Lurrie Bell and the Sons of Blues, Jimmy Witherspoon , John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Johnny Winter .
In addition to the numerous cover versions, Help Me can be found on many compilation albums, for example on His Best , which was published by MCA / Chess to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the label's founding.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herzhaft, Gerard (1992). Encyclopedia of the Blues. University of Arkansas Press. P. 450. ISBN 1557282528 .
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1988). Top R&B singles 1942-1988. Record Research, Inc. p. 447. ISBN 0898200687 .
- ↑ The Blues Harp Page: Sonny Boy Williamson
- ^ Blues Foundation Hall of Fame ( Memento from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Cover info
- ↑ Second hand songs