It's All Over Now
It's All Over Now is a rock music classic . It was in 1964 by the songwriters Bobby Womack & Shirley composed and by the band of the Womack Brothers The Valentinos for the SAR - Label Sam Cooke's first recorded. The number was a hit in the US .
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger decided to include this song together with several other compositions by American musicians in the repertoire of their little-known band The Rolling Stones . The song gave the Rolling Stones their final breakthrough with European audiences and became their first number 1 hit in England (number 26 in the United States ).
The song is not to be confused with the Bob Dylan classic It's All Over Now, Baby Blue , which also became famous in the versions of Them and Joan Baez .
There are cover versions of, among others:
- Rolling Stones (1964)
- Ian & the Zodiacs (1964)
- Spencer Davis Group
- Rod Stewart (1970)
- Alex Taylor (1971)
- Bobby Womack and Bill Withers
- Ry Cooder (1974)
- Johnny Winter (1976)
- Molly Hatchet (1979)
- Clive Langer and the Boxes (1980)
- Mitch Ryder (1982)
- Nils Lofgren (1983)
- Ostbahn Kurti : with German text as Ois hod sei End (1985)
- Waylon Jennings ( Country version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ musicological analysis of the recording by the Rolling Stones see: Ansgar Jerrentrup: Development of rock music from the beginning to the beat . Regensburg: Gustav Bosse Verlag, 1981 (Cologne contributions to music research, vol. 113), also Diss. Phil. University of Cologne 1980, p. 202f; Score transcription of the recording p. 245f