Hoochie Coochie Man
| Hoochie Coochie Man | |
|---|---|
| Muddy Waters | |
| publication | 1954 |
| length | 2:48 |
| Genre (s) | Blues , Chicago blues |
| Author (s) | Willie Dixon |
| Award (s) | Rolling Stone Magazine 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (# 225), Blues Foundation Hall of Fame 1984 - Classics of Blues Recordings, Grammy Hall of Fame 1998 |
Hoochie Coochie Man (sometimes: I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man ) is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. The single was released on Chess Records (Cat. No. 1560).
General
The song was Willie Dixon's first successful song. He himself said that before that he wasn't particularly well known as a songwriter, although he had already written many. After Hoochie Coochie Man, Leonard Chess wanted more songs like that. The song peaked at number 8 on the Billboard R&B chart .
The Rolling Stone named it to the list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and in 1984 the song was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Blues Foundation . In 1998, she was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
There are different opinions about the meaning of the word " Hoochie Coochie " in the text. The word could refer to the dance that emerged in the USA around 1870 and was a forerunner of the striptease. Others believe that “coochie” refers to the woman's vagina and that “hoochie” is a slang term for illegal alcohol, so “hoochie coochie” refers to nothing more than the enjoyment of sex and alcohol. The text leaves open which version is the right one.
occupation
- Muddy Waters - vocals, guitar
- Little Walter - harmonica
- Otis Spann - piano
- Jimmy Rogers - guitar
- Willie Dixon - bass
- Fred Below - drums
Cover versions (selection)
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Individual evidence
- ^ Willie Dixon and Don Snowden: I am the Blues. The Willie Dixon Story , Quartet Books, London 1995, ISBN 978-0704302532 , pp. 85-86.
- ↑ No. 8 in the best seller charts and No. 3 in the juke box charts, see Joel Whitburn: Top 40 R&B and Hip-Hop Hits. 1942-2004 . Billboard Books, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0898201604 , p. 612.
- ↑ What is a Hoochie Coochie Man? - the song by Muddy Waters. ( Memento from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man Lyrics. In: lyricsfreak.com
- ↑ Howard Mandel et al. (eds.): The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues . Billboard Books, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0823082667 , pp. 182-183.
Web links
- Video: Muddy Waters plays Hoochie Coochie Man (1970)