David Clayton-Thomas - Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker Cover)

Описание: From '' David Clayton-Thomas! ''
Label: Decca – DL 75146
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gloversville Pressing
Country: US
Released: 1969

Tracklist
A1 I Got A Woman
Written-By – Ray Charles
A2 Say Boss Man
Written-By – Earl McDaniels
A3 Who's Been Talkin'
Written-By – David Clayton-Thomas
A4 Call It Stormy Monday
Written-By – Aaron T. Walker
A5 Done Somebody Wrong
Written-By – David Clayton-Thomas
B1 Tobacco Road
Written-By – John Loudermilk
B2 Boom Boom
Written-By – John Lee Hooker
B3 Good Lovin'
Written-By – Danny Taylor, Jesmet, Leroy Kirkland
B4 Poison Ivy
Written-By – J. Leiber-M. Stoller
B5 Howlin' For My Darling
Written-By – Chester Burnett, Willie Dixon

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"Boom Boom" is a blues song written by John Lee Hooker and recorded in 1961.
The song was a hit in the US in 1962 and 1992 in the UK.
It is one of Hooker's most identifiable songs and has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists, including a 1965 Pop hit by The Animals.

Original song

"Boom Boom" is an uptempo stop-time blues song, notated in 4/4 time in the key of C. The verses of the song do not follow a typical twelve-bar blues pattern, though it reverts to a standard twelve-bar pattern for the extended instrumental break in the middle of Hooker's recording.
According to Hooker, he wrote the song during an extended engagement at the Apex Bar in Detroit.
"I would never be on time; I always would be late comin' in. And she [the bartender Willa] kept saying, 'Boom boom—you late again'. Every night: 'Boom, boom—you late again'. I said 'Hmm, that's a song!'"

The song became a hit, reaching no.16 in the Billboard R&B chart where it spent eight weeks in 1962.
"Boom Boom" also made an appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100 (1962 at no.60), one of only two Hooker singles to do so.
Thirty years later, after being featured in a Lee Jeans commercial in 1992, the song reached no.16 in the UK Singles Chart.
Hooker recorded several later versions, including a reworking of the song as "Bang Bang Bang Bang" from his Live at Soledad Prison album and as a South Side Chicago street musician in the film The Blues Brothers, but the song itself is not included in the film soundtrack.

The Animals version

English rock band the Animals recorded "Boom Boom" for their 1964 UK debut album The Animals. Their rendition generally follows John Lee Hooker's version, except it conforms to a twelve-bar blues structure.
They also added "shake it baby" as a response to the "come on and shake..." refrain in the middle section.
(Hooker recorded "Shake It Baby" during the 1962 American Folk Blues Festival tour in Europe and for his 1965 album It Serves You Right to Suffer.)

The Animals version was released as a single only in North America and peaked at no.43 on the Billboard Hot 100 and no.14 on the RPM Top 40&5 singles chart.
The song was also included on their second American album The Animals on Tour as well as various compilation albums (sometimes with the twelve-bar guitar solo edited out).

Over the years, several versions of "Boom Boom" have been recorded by various Animals reunion lineups as well as by former members Eric Burdon and Alan Price.

Other versions

In 1963, The Yardbirds recorded a demo of the song which was released in 1966.

In 1966 albums by Mae West (Way Out West) and Shadows of Knight (Gloria) both included the song.

It appears on the 1970 album C.C.S. by the CCS.

On Dr. Feelgood's 1974 album Down by the Jetty.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band frequently covered the song, in a fashion similar to the Animals' version, on their 1988 Tunnel of Love Express Tour.

In 1995, it was covered by AC/DC during a radio session.

In 1997, Big Head Todd & the Monsters recorded it for their Beautiful World album, releasing it as a single the following year.

The Oak Ridge Boys recorded it in 2009 featuring bass singer Richard Sterban on lead vocals from The Boys Are Back, and their rendition is closer to The Animals' version in that they include the "shake it baby" refrain.

In 2012, Barbara Ireland recorded a down-n-dirty, Mae West-style version on her album, RED.

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