Johnny Kongos & The G-Men - It's All Over Now (The Valentinos Cover)

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From '' Oh Boy! ''
Label: RCA Victor – 31,909
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: South Africa
Released: 1964

Tracklist
A1 Swing On A Star
A2 Over The Mountain
A3 Crying In The Rain
Written-By – Carole King, Howard Greenfield
A4 900 Miles
A5 Tobacco Road
A6 Someone Someone
A7 Oh! Boy
B1 C'Mon Everybody
B2 And I Love Her
B3 You've Got What I Like
B4 Little Bird
Written-By – John D. Loudermilk
B5 Love Potion No. 9
B6 You'll Never Walk Alone
B7 It's All Over Now

Notes
As per the sketch on the front cover of the record,
the line-up of the G-Men on this album:
• Johnny Kongos
• Hank Squires
• Jesse Somares
• Robbie Kearney

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"It's All Over Now" was written by Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack.
It was first released by The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack.
The Valentinos version entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 27, 1964, where it stayed on the chart for two weeks, peaking at No. 94.
The Rolling Stones had their first number-one hit with this song in July 1964

The Valentinos version

Bobby Womack - lead vocals,guitar, co-writer
Cecil Womack - background vocals
Harry Womack - background vocals
Friendly Womack Jr. - background vocals
Curtis Womack - background vocals
Producer - Sam Cooke

The Rolling Stones version

The Valentinos' original version of the song was played to the Rolling Stones during their first North American tour in June 1964 by New York radio DJ Murray the K. Murray the K had an extended series of interviews with the Stones on his WINS Swinging Soiree hit radio show following his similar success as the first radio DJ in the USA to have the Beatles with him on the air (February 1964).
He played the Valentinos' song to the Stones, who "raved on it" and said "it was their kind of song".
He also played the Stones' "King Bee" (their Slim Harpo cover) the same night and remarked on their ability to achieve an authentic blues sound.
After hearing "It's All Over Now" by the Womacks (aka the Valentinos) on the WINS show, the band recorded their version nine days later at Chess Studios in Chicago. Years later, Bobby Womack said in an interview that he had told his manager he did not want the Rolling Stones to record their version of the song, and that he had told Mick Jagger to get his own song.
His manager convinced him to let the Rolling Stones record the song.
Six months later on receiving the royalty check for the song he told his manager that Mick Jagger could have any song he wanted.

The Rolling Stones' version of "It's All Over Now" is the most famous version ever cut of the song.
It was first released as a single in Great Britain, where it peaked at number 1 on the Disc Weekly charts, giving the Rolling Stones their first number one hit ever.
It was the band's third single released in America, and stayed in the Billboard Hot 100 for ten weeks, peaking at number 26.
Months later it appeared on their second American album 12 X 5.
The song was a big hit in Europe and was part of the bands live set in the 1960s.

In his 2010 autobiography, "Life", Keith Richards says that John Lennon criticized his guitar solo on this song and Richards agreed that it was not one of his best, though Bruce Springsteen and many other guitar fans rank it as one of the most inspired guitar breaks ever recorded, and one that is still hard to mimic.

Other versions

My Cousin, The Emperor on The Subway Eps, Vol. II: Broadway- Lafayette
Johnny Rivers on In Action
Waylon Jennings on The One and Only
Rod Stewart on Gasoline Alley
Molly Hatchet on Flirtin' with Disaster
John Anderson on the 1985 album Tokyo, Oklahoma. His version peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
In 1989 by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band on Voodoo, featuring Dr. John on vocals and piano
Rebirth Brass Band, on the 1999 album The Main Event: Live at the Maple Leaf
Ducks Deluxe
The Sharks
Feargal Sharkey on his self-titled debut album
The Grateful Dead
AC/DC
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (only available on a bootleg from one of the band's 1997 appearances at The Fillmore Auditorium)
Social Distortion on Japanese edition of their self-titled album
Arno
Mabel on Another Fine Mess!
Nils Lofgren on Wonderland
Ry Cooder on his album Paradise and Lunch
Johnny Winter on Captured Live!
In the 1978 live recording by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils titled, It's Alive, recorded at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois.
Austrian singer Falco covered the song on his 1985 album Falco 3

Amy Correia covers the Rod Stewart "medley" of Gasoline Alley/It's All Over Now on "THE I-10 CHRONICLES 2" (2001)

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So many memories i used to go to the Fireplace ! loved the group !

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