Artist: Harlem Hamfats
Author: Joe McCoy
Label: Decca
Year: 1936
Vocal by Hamfoot Ham, better known as author Joe McCoy. Such a success, their next session produced a New Oh Red.
Covers:
State Street Swingers [with Washboard Sam]
Blind Boy Fuller [as New Oh Red]
Howlin' Wolf [cut at Sam Phillips' studio in Memphis]
Chris Kenner [as Sick And Tired, despite obvious similarities, crediting Kenner and Dave Bartholomew, like most later covers do]
Fats Domino [idem]
Ronnie Hawkins [as Sick And Tired]
Sam Butera [idem]
Bo Diddley [idem]
Searchers [as Sick And Tired]
Georgie Fame [idem]
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs [idem; hit down under]
Righteous Brothers [idem]
Techniques [as Oh Babe]
Waylon Jennings [as Sick And Tired]
Derrick & Patsy [as Oh Babe]
Johnny Jenkins [as Sick & Tired]
Tom Fogerty [as Sick And Tired]
Neville Grant [idem]
Johnny & Edgar Winter [idem]
Delbert McClinton [idem]
Sleepy LaBeef [idem]
Professor Longhair [idem]
Johnny G [as Oh Babe]
Diz & The Doormen [idem]
Frankie Ford [idem]
Clarence Edwards [as Sick And Tired]
Tommy Ridgley [idem]
Alex Chilton [idem]
Boz Scaggs [idem]
Hillbilly Voodoo Dolls [idem]
Cyril Neville [idem]
Jerry Lee Lewis [idem]
The blues knows more Oh Red's: Speckled Red wrote one and Arnett Nelson & his Hot Four cut yet another one, also in '36.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)