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He likely got it from a Big Bill Broonzy recording "Rockin' Chair Blues" from 1940 using the phrase "rock me, baby". The phrase "like a wagon wheel" is used in the 1939 Curtis Jones song "Roll Me Mama" that includes the lines "Now roll me over, just like I'm a wagon wheel" and "just like I ain't got no bone". He re-recorded it in 1963 as "Roll ...
B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" is based on the 1951 song "Rockin' and Rollin'" by Lil' Son Jackson. [1] King's lyrics are nearly identical to Jackson's, although instrumentally the songs are different: "Rockin' and Rollin'" is a solo piece, with Jackson's vocal and guitar accompaniment, whereas "Rock Me Baby" is an ensemble piece.
Curtis Jones' song 'Roll Me Over', presumably recorded in 1939, also uses the phrase 'like a wagon wheel'. Therefore the term blues standard is appropriate. I like the later versions very much (I even wrote my own, Dutch version), but legally something might be wrong in this Wikipedia article regarding authorship and maybe even considering ...
Both "Rock Me, Mama" and "Sweet Amarillo" were eventually completed and recorded by the Nashville band Old Crow Medicine Show, who credited Bob Dylan as co-writer. "Wagon Wheel" was released in 2004 (and subsequently covered by many other artists, including Darius Rucker) and "Sweet Amarillo" was released in 2014. [10]
Secor admits to developing "the habit of writing what he calls 'stolen melody songs'"—in much the same way he'd created "Wagon Wheel", carrying on in the folk tradition—"like when he penned fresh, war tax-themed lyrics to a tune that had already passed through other wholesale re-writes during its descent from old-time Scots-Irish balladry."
"The Old Spinning Wheel" "The Scene Changes" "The West, A Nest and You" "There's a Cabin in the Pines" "There's a Home in Wyoming" "There's Little Box of Pine O" "There's No Light in the Lighthouse" "There's a Wild Rose that Grows" "They Cut Down the Old Pine" "Till the Clock Strikes Three" "Timber" "The Tree that Father Planted" "Wagon Wheels"
"Rock Me" is a song by the Canadian-American hard rock band Steppenwolf. It was released on their 1969 album At Your Birthday Party . It was written by the band's lead singer John Kay , and was the band's fifth American single release.
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