Mannish boy
| Mannish boy | |
|---|---|
| Muddy Waters | |
| publication | 1955 |
| length | 2:55 |
| Genre (s) | blues |
| Author (s) | McKinley Morganfield , Mel London, Ellas McDaniel |
| Award (s) | Blues Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
Mannish Boy is a blues standard written by McKinley Morganfield , Mel London and Ellas McDaniel and first published in 1955 by Muddy Waters on Chess (cat. No. 1602). On the B-side is Young Fashioned Ways. The single was issued as both a 10 ″ -78-RPM and a 7 ″ -45-RPM version. The song reached the top position number 5 in the Billboard - R & B - Charts , where he was represented five weeks. In addition to Muddy Waters (guitar and vocals), Otis Spann (piano), Jimmy Rogers (guitar), Willie Dixon (bass), Francis Clay (drums) and either Junior Wells or Little Walter (harmonica) can be heard on the recording. The song is an "answer" to Bo Diddley's I'm a Man , which in turn was inspired by Waters' Hoochie Coochie Man .
Muddy Waters recorded different versions of the song over the course of his career. In 1968 he played it for his album Electric Mud , which was Marshall Chess' attempt to conquer the rock music market. In 1977 the song appeared on Hard Again , a Waters album produced by Johnny Winter . In 1979 a version was released on Muddy “Mississippi” Waters Live .
The song was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame (Category: Classics of Blues Recordings) in 1986 . He was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". In 2004 Rolling Stone Magazine listed him at number 229 in their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Cover versions were recorded by Jimi Hendrix (Blues) and Paul Butterfield ( The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again, 1986). In 2003 a new arrangement of the song appeared in Martin Scorsese's series The Blues. In the fifth film (Godfathers and Sons) , The Electrik Mud Kats (= The Electric Mud Band, Muddy Waters' Band when recording Electric Mud ) reinterpreted the song with hip-hop singers Chuck DCommon & Kyle Jason. The Rolling Stones liked to play the song during their live performances, documented on the live album Love You Live (1977). At The Band's farewell concert , recorded by Martin Scorsese and released as an album and film as The Last Waltz , Muddy Waters sings the track accompanied by The Band and Paul Butterfield on harmonica. The song is part of the soundtrack in the films Goodfellas and Risky Business .
According to Bill Wyman, the lyrics "I'm a rollin 'stone" of this song inspired the Rolling Stones to give their band name. Keith Richards and Dick Taylor , however, led their names back to Rollin 'Stone , which was also recorded by Waters .
Web links
- Muddy Waters and his guitar - Manish Boy at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://sixappealmusic.com/?m=200911
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1988). Top R&B singles 1942-1988. Record Research, Inc. p. 435. ISBN 0898200687 .
- ↑ Herzhaft, Gerard (1992). Encyclopedia of the Blues. University of Arkansas Press. P. 454. ISBN 1557282528 .
- ^ Blues Hall of Fame
- ↑ Rolling Stone Magazine
- ^ Martin Scorsese: The Blues