Mannish Boy

1955

Mannish Boy Blue is a standard that was 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 well established as a 10 " 78- RPM as well as a 7" 45 - RPM version. The song reached a peak position of # 5 on the Billboard R & B chart, in which he was represented five weeks. In addition to Muddy Waters (guitar and vocals) are Otis Spann (piano), Jimmy Rogers ( guitar), Willie Dixon ( bass), Francis Clay ( drums) and either Junior Wells or Little Walter to listen to the recording ( harmonica). The song is a " response" to Bo Diddley I'm a Man, which was in turn inspired one of Waters ' Hoochie Coochie.

Muddy Waters took over the course of his career in various versions of the song. In 1968 he played him for his album Electric Mud, the Marshall Chess' attempt represented to conquer the rock music market. In 1977, the song on Hard Again, a produced by Johnny Winter Waters album. 1979, a version of Muddy "Mississippi " Waters was released "Live".

The song was in the Blues Hall of Fame (Category: Classics of Blues Recordings) 1986 was added. He was also recorded " 500 songs did Shaped Rock and Roll" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of. 2004 listed him the Rolling Stone magazine ranked 229 in its " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ".

Cover versions were of Jimi Hendrix ( Blues ) and Paul Butterfield ( The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again, 1986) was added. In 2003, a new arrangement of the song in Martin Scorsese series The Blues. In the fifth film ( Godfathers and Sons ) interpreted The Electrik Mud Kats ( = The Electric Mud band, Muddy Waters ' band in the recordings of Electric Mud ) new to the hip-hop singers Chuck DCommon & Kyle Jason the song. The Rolling Stones liked to play the song in their live performances, documented on the live album Love You Live (1977). At the farewell concert of The Band, recorded by Martin Scorsese and released as an album and film as The Last Waltz, Muddy Waters sings the theme accompanied by The Band and Paul Butterfield on harmonica. In the movies Goodfellas and Risky Business - Risky Business the song is part of the soundtrack.

The text line I'm a rollin 'stone of this song inspired according to Bill Wyman, the Rolling Stones to their band name. However, Keith Richards and Dick Taylor led her name back to the also recorded piece of Waters Rollin 'Stone