Recording: Smokestack Lightning

Performed by

First release

On Audio album Five Live Yardbirds (December 31, 1964)

Rating

Song info

Song

Written by

First recording

Crying at Daybreak by Howlin' Wolf (January 21, 1951)

First release

Crying at Daybreak by Howlin' Wolf on audio single Passing By Blues (1952)

Language

English

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Crying at Daybreak	Howlin' Wolf	1952
2	Smokestack Lightning	Manfred Mann	September 1964
3	Smokestack Lightning	The Yardbirds	December 31, 1964
4	Smoke Stack Lightning	The Animals	November 1966
5	Protest	Jack	1966
6	Smokestack Lightning	John Hammond	October 19, 1967
7	Smokestack Lightnin'	Smokestack Lightnin' [1]	1969
8	Smokestack Lightning	The Bintangs	1969
9	Smokestack Lightning	Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods	1970
10	Smokestack Lightning	Fenton Robinson	1971
11	Smokestack Lightnin'	Grateful Dead	July 1973
12	Smokestack Lightning	Maxwell Street Jimmy	1979
13	Smokestack Lightnin'	Bad Smitty	1981
14	Smokestack Lightning	Howard Werth	1982
15	Smokestack Lightning	Valerie Wellington	1984
16	Smokestack Lightning	Green on Red	1985
17	Smokestack Lightning	George Thorogood & The Destroyers	1988
18	Smokestack Lightning	Soundgarden	1988
19	Smokestack Lightning	Gillan	November 1989
20	Smokestack Lightnin'	Smokey Wilson	1992
21	Smokestack Lightning	Things to Come	1993
22	Smokestack Lightning	Jimmy Rogers	1994
23	Smokestack Lightning	The Electric Prunes	May 1997
24	Smokestack Lightning	The Groundhogs	1998
25	Smokestack Lightnin'	Frankie Lee	1999
26	Smokestack Lightning	Chris Whitley	July 25, 2000
27	Smoke Stack Lightnin'	Graná Louise	2003
28	Smokestack Lightning	Lucky Peterson	2003
29	Smokestack Lightnin'	Etta James	June 2004
30	Smokestack Lightning	Big George Brock	June 1, 2007
31	Smokestack Lightning	Fiona Boyes, Mookie Brill & Rich DelGrosso	May 27, 2008
32	Smokestack Lightnin'	Motor City Josh	December 9, 2008
33	Smokestack Lightning	Mark Doyle and The Maniacs	May 27, 2009