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the Doors version is awful...

Posted by Tyrone Slothrop on 2024-February-05 16:56:12 EST, Monday
In reply to Someone shared a very old video in chat tonight. posted by Eeyore on 2024-February-04 08:13:29 EST, Sunday
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...as usual whenever JM tried to sing the blues. He's drunk and embarassing.

The original is much much better. Howlin' Wolf on vocals, Hubert Sumlin on guitar, Willie Dixon on double bass (he also wrote the song and produced the recording) and Otis Spann on piano, recorded in June 1960, along with two other classics written by Dixon, Wang-Dang-Doodle and Spoonful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcxR1Rx7aTw

"Little girl" in black music of the time usually simply means "young woman".

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