I Just Want to Make Love to You
| I Just Want to Make Love to You | |
|---|---|
| Muddy Waters | |
| publication | 1954 |
| length | 2:49 |
| Genre (s) | Blues , Chicago blues |
| Author (s) | Willie Dixon |
| Cover versions | |
| The Rolling Stones | |
| 1964 | Foghat |
I Just Want to Make Love to You is a blues song that Willie Dixon wrote for Muddy Waters . It was initially called Just Make Love to Me , was published on Chess (Cat. No. 1571) in 1954 and was a great success (No. 4 on the Billboard Black Singles Chart). The song was recorded again by Waters in 1968 for his album Electric Mud .
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The song is about a man who doesn't want anything from his wife that is expected of a woman at that time.
- I don't want you to wash my clothes
- I don't want you to keep my home
- I don't want your money too
- I just want to make love to you
Cast of the original version
- Guitar, vocals - Muddy Waters
- Bass - Willie Dixon
- Drums - Fred Below
- Guitar - Jimmy Rogers
- Harmonica - Little Walter
- Piano - Otis Spann
Cover versions
- The song was the B-side of Etta James' first hit, At Last .
- The blues rock group Foghat recorded the title for their first album; the released single peaked at # 83 on the Billboard Hot 100 . The song became the band's first hit.
- In 1967 the title appeared on the album Superblues by Bo Diddley , Muddy Waters and Little Walter .
- The song was written by Willie Dixon, The Rolling Stones (1964, with slightly different lyrics), Chuck Berry , The Sensational Alex Harvey Band , The Smashing Pumpkins , The Grateful Dead , Buddy Guy , Mungo Jerry , The Kinks , Robben Ford , Van Morrison , Lou Rawls , The Righteous Brothers , The Yardbirds , The Animals , James Blood Ulmer , Junior Wells , Memphis Slim , Bo Diddley , Johnny Otis , Paul Rodgers and Eddy Clearwater, and Cliff Richard (2010, brass version).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Song portrait at Allmusic
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top 40 R&B and Hip-Hop Hits. 1942-2004. New York, NY: Billboard Books, 2006, p. 612
- ↑ "I don't want you to wash my clothes, keep my apartment tidy, I don't want your money, I just want to make love"
- ↑ Lyrics
- ^ Discogs: Muddy-Waters-The-Best-Of-Muddy-Waters accessed on November 21, 2010
- ↑ Second Hand Songs accessed on November 21, 2010 and song portrait (Allmusic)