CHECK UP ON MY BABY

Created on 30/07/2005
Latest update on 17/11/2023

Artist: Sonny Boy Williamson
Author: John Lee Williamson
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1944

Covers:

1960:

Sonny Boy Williamson II [as Checkin' Up On My Baby for Chess; released posthumously in '65; the only song cut by both Sonny Boy's; the first one operated from Chicago, the second one from the Delta, two separate markets then and by the time the second one moved to Chicago, the first one had died]

1967:

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers [idem]

1967:

Taj Mahal [idem]

1968:

Cuby & The Blizzards

1976:

Dr. Feelgood

1978:

Lamont Cranston

1981:

Denny Freeman & The Cobras

1985:

Sonny Landreth & Bayou Rhythm

1993:

Mick Jagger [with The Red Devils; outtake]

1995:

Hook Herrera

2000:

Nine Below Zero

2007:

Gary Moore [all as Checkin' Up On My Baby]

Not to be confused with Otis Rush's Checking On My Baby ('58 - Cobra), covered by Gregg Allman.

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