I'M A KING BEE

Created on 13/03/2003
Latest update on 03/04/2021

Artist: Slim Harpo
Author: James Moore
Label: Excello
Year: 1957

Debut 45, wrote a sequel in '63 as Little Queen Bee.

Covers:

1964:

Rolling Stones

1967:

Chocolate Watch Band

1969:

Grateful Dead

1969:

Earl Hooker [as I'm Your Main Man]

1971:

Lou Rawls

1975:

Louisiana Red

1980:

Muddy Waters [on lp King Bee with Johnny Winter]

1980:

Johnny G

1984:

Pretty Things

1985:

Koko Taylor [as Queen Bee (which she was)]

1992:

Zora Young [idem]

1992:

Sue Foley [idem]

1997:

Big Town Playboys

1997:

Grateful Dead

1998:

Monti Amundson

2000:

Headcoats

2005:

Kenny Neal

2007:

Naked Eyes

2007:

Dave Hole

2008:

Steve Muskrat

2010:

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

2016:

Moreland & Arbuckle

2019:

Peter Frampton

2020:

Wynonna

"What's the point in listening to us doing I'm A King Bee when you can hear Slim Harpo do it?" - Mick Jagger, 1968.

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