Recording: Little Red Rooster

Performed by

Vance Kelly

First release

On Audio album Hands Off (1998)

Rating

Song info

Song

The Red Rooster

Written by

Willie Dixon

First recording

The Red Rooster by Howlin' Wolf (June 1961)

First release

The Red Rooster by Howlin' Wolf on audio single Shake for Me (1961)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	The Red Rooster	Howlin' Wolf	1961
2	Little Red Rooster	Sam Cooke	September 1963
3	Little Red Rooster	The Rolling Stones	November 13, 1964
4	Little Red Rooster	The Typhoons	November 1964
5	Little Red Rooster	Big Mama Thornton	1965
6	Little Red Rooster	The Pupils	1966
7	Red Rooster	Carla Thomas	1966
8	Little Red Rooster	Cuby + Blizzards & Eddy Boyd	1967
9	The Little Red Rooster	Willie Dixon	1969
10	Little Red Rooster	Luther Allison and The Blue Nebulae	1969
11	Little Red Rooster	José Feliciano	1969
12	Little Red Rooster	Fenton Robinson	1971
13	Little Red Rooster	Otis Rush	1977
14	The Red Rooster	Eddie C. Campbell	1977
15	Little Red Rooster	Big Joe Duskin	1979
16	Little Red Rooster	George and Ethel McCoy	1982
17	Little Red Rooster	Jimmy Dawkins and Hip Linkchain	1982
18	Little Red Rooster	Amiga Blues Band	1983
19	Little Red Rooster	The Doors	1983
20	Little Red Rooster	Lucky Peterson	1984
21	Little Red Rooster	Savoy Brown	1986
22	Little Red Rooster	Mick Taylor	June 1990
23	Little Red Rooster	The Chesterfield Kings	1990
24	Little Red Rooster	Luther Johnson	1991
25	Little Red Rooster	Charles et les Lulus	1991
26	Little Red Rooster	The Jesus and Mary Chain	1992
27	Little Red Rooster	Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown	1993
28	The Red Rooster	Gerry Groom	1993
29	Little Red Rooster	Big Time Sarah and the BTS Express	June 4, 1996
30	Little Red Rooster	Bryan Adams	August 1996
31	Little Red Rooster	Mick Abrahams	1996
32	Little Red Rooster	Wilson Diesel	1996
33	Little Red Rooster	W.C. Spencer	March 27, 1997
34	Little Red Rooster	J.B. Ritchie	December 23, 1997
35	Little Red Rooster	Vance Kelly	1998
36	The Red Rooster	Big Dave McLean	1998
37	Little Red Rooster	James Blood Ulmer	September 4, 2001
38	Red Rooster	Tiger Blues Band	September 11, 2001
39	Little Red Rooster	Tony McPhee	July 23, 2002
40	Little Red Rooster	Graná Louise	2003
41	Lil' Red Rooster	Etta James	June 2004
42	Little Red Rooster	The Patron Saints	January 2008
43	Little Red Rooster	Motor City Josh & the Big 3	November 18, 2008
44	The Red Rooster	Robin Trower	February 4, 2013