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"Got My Mojo Working" is a blues song written by Preston Foster and first recorded by Ann Cole in 1956. Muddy Waters popularized it in 1957 and the song was a feature of his performances throughout his career. A mojo is an amulet or talisman associated with hoodoo, an early African-American folk-magic belief system. Rolling Stone magazine included Waters' rendition of the song is on its list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at number 359. In 1999, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave it a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and it is identified on the list of "Songs of the Century".
Muddy Waters' 1950 song "Louisiana Blues" includes a reference to acquiring a mojo: "I'm goin' down in New Orleans, get me a mojo hand, I'm 'on show all you good lookin' women, yes how to treat your love". His popular 1954 song, "Hoochie Coochie Man", written by Willie Dixon, also mentions it. According to Waters
Waters recorded the song on December 1, 1956, for Chess Records in Chicago. It features one of the first recorded appearances with James Cotton, who replaced Little Walter as Waters' harmonica player.Otis Spann on piano, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Dixon or Andrew Stephen on bass, and Francis Clay on drums.
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McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known by his stage name Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi and by age seventeen was playing the guitar at parties, emulating local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. He was recorded by Alan Lomax there for the Library of Congress in 1941. In 1943, he headed to Chicago with the hope of becoming a full-time professional musician, eventually recording, in 1946, for first Columbia and then Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess.
In the early 1950s, Muddy and his band, Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elgin Evans on drums and Otis Spann on piano, recorded a series of blues classics, some with bassist/songwriter Willie Dixon, including "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "I'm Ready". In 1958, Muddy headed to England, helping to lay the foundations of the subsequent blues boom there, and in 1960 performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, recorded and released as his first live album, At Newport 1960.
Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer who spanned a variety of music genres including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel. Starting her career in 1954, she gained fame with hits such as "The Wallflower", "At Last", "Tell Mama", "Something's Got a Hold on Me", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" for which she wrote the lyrics. She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album Seven Year Itch.
James is regarded as having bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and was the winner of six Grammys and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame in both 1999 and 2008.Rolling Stone ranked James number 22 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and number 62 on the list of the 100 Greatest Artists.
Classic Mood Experience The best masterpieces ever recorded in the music history. Join our Youtube: https://goo.gl/8AOGaN Join our Facebook: http://goo.gl/5oL723 McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 -- April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is considered the "father of modern Chicago blues". He was a major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s and is ranked No. 17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. FROM WIKIPEDIA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muddy_Waters 🎷🎶 🎷🎶 🎷🎶 Subscribe to our channel for the best music masterpieces: http://bit.ly/ClassicMoodExperience Classic Mood Experience The best masterpieces ever recorded in the music history. Explore Classic Mood Experience music, the best jazz, blu...
Etta James - Got My Mojo Working "Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you I wanna love you so bad till I don't know what to do Going down to Louisiana, gonna get me a mojo hand... oh yeah... Gonna go Louisiana, gonna get me... get me a mojo hand Then right here... gonna have em at my command.... yeah... Got my mojo working (got my mojo working) Got my mojo working (got my mojo working) Got my mojo working (got my mojo working) Got my mojo working (got my mojo working) Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you .... yeah yeah... (lead) Got a gypsy fella that's givin' me advice Got a gypsy fella givin' me givin' me advice I gotta whole lot of tricks for keepin' you here (?) on ice.... yeah... ...
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Music video by Muddy Waters performing Got My Mojo Working (Live).
Kitty Daisy & Lewis & Jean Jacques Milteau I Got My Mojo Working
I got my mojo workin' but it just don't work on you
I got my mojo workin' but it just don't work on you
I wanna love you so bad I don't know what to do
I'm goin' down over there to bring back a mojo hand
I'm goin' down over there to bring back a mojo hand
I'm gonna have all you women venture my command
I got a real gypsy woman givin' me advice
I got a real gypsy woman givin' me advice
Well I don't know what she want but she sure looks mighty nice
All right!
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I got my mojo workin' (I got my mojo workin') (this line x4)