WANG DANG DOODLE

Created on 21/05/2001
Latest update on 27/09/2020

Artist: Willie Dixon
Author: Willie Dixon
Label: MCA
Year: 1954

First surfaced on 1995 reissue cd The Original Wang Dang Doodle.

Covers:

1960:

Howlin' Wolf [with Willie Dixon on bass; he wrote it for the Wolfman (in '51/'52) but he declined it for being too old-timey; "sound like some old levee camp song"]

1966:

Koko Taylor [her only R&B hit; 100.000 copies just for Chicagoland; Chess had just purchased their first local radio station (WVON); that helped]

1968:

Love Sculpture

1970:

Livin' Blues [hit NL]

1971:

Savoy Brown

1972:

Dr. John

1973:

Pointer Sisters

1990:

Hindu Love Gods

1991:

Terry Garland

1991:

P.J. Harvey [John Peel Session]

1992:

Rufus Thomas

1996:

Jools Holland

2003:

Climax Blues Band

2013:

Omar Dykes

2017:

George Thorogood

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