The late great Long John Baldry, with the Vernon Girls plus the Beatles helping out on the chorus:
From the 1964 TV special Around the Beatles - which also featured the Fab Four's one attempt at Shakespeare.
Not easy for a 6ft 7in gay Englishman to cover Muddy Waters' macho blues classic, but he does it in style. Could one argue, perhaps, that the degree of ironic detachment required for a man like Baldry to perform this song was a key element in the successful adoption of the blues by English musicians, and its subsequent re-exporting back to America? - most notably evident in the androgynous style of Mick Jagger in the Stones? No? Well, just a thought...
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