Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me (Official Audio)

Led Zeppelin – You Shook Me (Official Audio)
Album: Led Zeppelin I

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Led Zeppelin formed in 1968 and went on to become one of the most influential, innovative, and successful groups in modern music, having sold more than 300 million albums worldwide. The band rose from the ashes of The Yardbirds, when Jimmy Page brought in John Bonham, John Paul Jones, and Robert Plant to tour as The New Yardbirds. In 1969, Led Zeppelin released its self-titled debut which was produced by Page, as were all the subsequent albums. It marked the beginning of a 12-year reign, during which the group was widely considered to be the biggest and most innovative rock band in the world.

[yubinbaaniya]

It's great how Plant match the high pitch of the guitar every time.

[josephsteinman]

I am 76 years old and at age 20 in the year 1968 being from Philadelphia a couple of buddies had a couple of dollars so we bought tickets at the box office of The Spectrum at Broad and Pattinson Ave in South Philadelphia to what was touted as this first ever musical Tour that was put together with the following acts. Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Johnny Winter, and Al Cooper. We got the cheapest seats for $5.00:each about 2 rows from the roof in as they used to say the nose bleed section. But to our total shock due to the fact that no one ever even heard of either Led Zeppelin or Jethro Tull only less than 30 people showed up and as we could not believe our ears when right before the start of the concert everyone was told to move as close to the stage as possible to turn it into a parlor type concert and the extra special feature was in the exact middle of the venue equal on all sides for visibility this completely round stage actually rotated very slowly during the entire concert which was amazing.Highlights were when Jimmy Page pulls out this giant comcert bow from a concert upright bass and creates these long notes you can here on their incredible track Dazed and Confused. They did every track on their first album because just starting out that’s all they had. They had not even thought about a second album because they had to focus on putting out superior music at an unheard of level than ever before to launch their careers as that was exactly what they did. The secret is to put out music in a fresh new direction which music lovers worldwide have built in radar to find this exciting fresh new way. John Bonham was by far the best drummer I ever saw and at a close second was Mitch Mitchell as while watching them my mouth automatically dropped into a semi stiff position at of my recognition of the best in the world.At an early interview Mr.Bonham was asked how he got to be the best and his reply was that he had no choice but to grow to be the best because Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones were so much more developed as they continued to grow and reach their full potential. Mr. Bonham said he decided to find a way to teach his full potential and as a very smart person he combined his physical strengths with the way he set up his drum kit so he could maximize his potential and be on par with his band mates which he admitted was very stressful at times in this interview I viewed years ago.so what he found that allow him to physically achieve his full growth to musical maturity he set the stool much lower than anyone had ever done and also changed the distance to the kit according to the results of his adjustments and my jaw still drops each and every time I hear him but I shut my eyes and go back to 1968 when just as a happenstance I got to see one of the thrills of a lifetime. And yes John Paul Jones keyboard work still takes me off and will always as for me these things have become permanent automatically. Even Robert Plant took me off with his harmonica playing. Best way I can describe this phenomenon is the musician can directly connect to the listener through some unknown force but out of all the concerts I saw Led Zeppelin was the only band to make that connection for me as after that I was automatically looking for the same connection to bands like Hendrix, Zappa, Leon Russell, Yes, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, The Velvet, Loggins and Messina, Jesse Collin Young, Papa John Creech. Great time to be young when gun violence was at a minimum if any at all and life was safer and much more private.

[joshuadelacruz]

Anyone else in awe how Robert's harmonica solo just flows to Page's??

[uskidsknow]

This is like a masterclass in blues. Everybody gets a chance to show off and absolutely fucking nails it

[maximilianozamorategui]

You will never ever hear this song on the radio, only hard cord Zeppelin fans can appreciate this amazing riff.🤘

[ryankelsey]

AC/DC shook us all night long, but Led Zeppelin shook us first!

[jamesharris]

67 years old with arthritis just smoking a bit of pain relief 😌 to this track so good

[Steven-ts]

What an classic album Led Zeppelin 1 was.

[raylewis]

The call and response btw Robert's voice and Page's guitar wizardry is timeless and unmatched.

[getenlightened]

Page lands Plant, Bonham & Jones to form his super band - and won the Universe's Rock n' Roll lottery.

I'm so grateful for these gents and the music they recorded together. What a gift.

[joseph]

3:57 I love that in the solo part, the guitar manages to imitate the sound of the harmonica. I got goose bumps

[gregwatson]

They are playing at their best on this one. Each member of the band joins in for an extended jam.

[pingamalinga]

That harmonica still touches me in my special area.

[jamesburke]

This song should be considered one of their best but you don't ever hear anyone else saying that

[jimbarrofficial]

Don't underestimate the power of John Paul Jones' influence on this band.

[peterbartolomeo]

Just never been done better. Old blues song....this band took to a level never heard before. Zepps unbelievable !!!!

[earthdust]

That's gotta be the heaviest most gut wrenching thing I've
ever heard from Zeppelin!

[jamesburke]

Great bands don't come along that often and LED ZEPPELIN has been great for over 40 years

[nicoguarini]

What a vibe!! Probably the "muddiest" guitar tone ever recorded. It seeps out speakers like a Mississippi swamp.

[carlosarturosousagarridole]

WIKIPEDIA

"You Shook Me" is a 1962 blues song recorded by Chicago blues artist Muddy Waters. Willie Dixon wrote the lyrics and Earl Hooker provided the instrumental backing; the song features Waters' vocal in unison with Hooker's slide-guitar melody. "You Shook Me" became one of Muddy Waters' most successful early-1960s singles and has been interpreted by several blues and rock artists.

BACKGROUND

"You Shook Me" is unique among Muddy Waters' songs – it is the first time he overdubbed vocals onto an existing commercially released record. The backing track for Waters started as an impromptu slide guitar instrumental by blues guitarist Earl Hooker during a May 3, 1961, recording session for Chief Records. To start the session, Hooker and his backup band played a "warm-up" number, loosely fashioned on earlier Hooker songs and a rhythmic element from the blues standard "Rock Me Baby". One take was recorded, apparently unknown to Hooker. A.C. Reed, who played tenor saxophone on the recording, recalled:

We was just warmin' up, you know, we wasn't even gonna cut that tune, and Hooker just started out on it. Mel London ... just cut the warm-up tape, it sound so good [and then] he put it out ... Hooker was just somebody like you gave to catch him at his best, you know, unpredictable.

Chief owner and producer Mel London chose "Blue Guitar" for the title and issued it as a single on the Chief subsidiary, Age Records, in 1962. Hooker is listed as the artist and writer and backing him on slide guitar were Reed and Ernest Cotton on tenor saxophones, Johnny "Big Moose" Walker on organ, Ernest Johnson on electric bass, and Bobby Little on drums. The 1989 Muddy Waters Chess box set lists Dixon on double bass and Casey Jones on drums instead of Johnson and Little; The Complete Muddy Waters Discography shows Dixon on bass, only Reed on sax, and adds Lafayette Leake on piano; AllMusic lists Otis Spann on piano instead of Leake.

Hooker biographer Sebastian Danchin cites "Blue Guitar" as Hooker's favorite piece "as it combines the ultimate in taste, virtuosity, sheer simplicity, and pure creativity." He notes the influence of blues slide guitarist Robert Nighthawk and Hooker's "accuracy" and "impeccable phrasing". The single became popular in Chicago and sold well for a blues instrumental. Many Chicago-area blues musicians added "Blue Guitar" to their sets and it took a place alongside other popularly performed instrumentals, such as Bill Doggett's "Honky Tonk" and Freddie King's "Hide Away".

MUDDY WATERS SONG

Chess Records owner and producer Leonard Chess heard "Blue Guitar" and sensed greater potential for the song. Searching for material for his label's artist, Muddy Waters, he approached London about using Hooker's instrumental. A deal was struck and Chess arranger and songwriter Willie Dixon wrote lyrics for the song. The lyrics are also credited to Chess blues artist J. B. Lenoir; other than being listed as a writer, there is no information about his involvement and Lenoir never recorded the song. The lyrics have been compared to other songs Dixon wrote for Chicago blues artists, such as "I Can't Quit You Baby" for Otis Rush and "Mad Love" for Waters. However, "You Shook Me" also conveys the consequences of a married man's extramarital affairs and reflects the common blues theme, "you reap what you sow":

You know you shook me, baby, you shook me all night long (2×)
Oh, you know you kept on shakin' me darlin', 'til you done messed up my happy home

Rather than re-recording the song with new musicians, on June 27, 1962, Waters overdubbed a vocal track to Hooker's 1961 recording to create "You Shook Me". The song, using the arrangement from "Blue Guitar", is a moderately-slow tempo twelve-bar blues, notated in 12/8 time in the key of D. For the melody line, Muddy Waters doubled Hooker's prominent slide-guitar line, giving the song its distinctive "hook". Despite its artificiality, Waters biographer Robert Gordon noted that the song "worked surprisingly well due in large part to the musicians' shared background [both being from the Mississippi Delta area]".

"You Shook Me" was relatively successful, but did not reach the national record charts. However, it was popular enough for Leonard Chess to try to repeat; in October 1962, he had Muddy Waters overdub three more Earl Hooker instrumentals with lyrics by Dixon. One of these, "You Need Love" (see "Whole Lotta Love" section on Similarities to "You Need Love"), was also successful and outsold other Waters singles during the early 1960s.

In the UK, Pye Records released these Muddy Waters/Earl Hooker songs on a four-song extended play 45 rpm record or "EP" in 1963. Reportedly, this EP was a favorite of then-teenagers Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. According to music impresario Giorgio Gomelsky, he arranged a meeting where Dixon (along with Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson II) introduced unreleased recordings of several songs, including "You Shook Me" and "Little Red Rooster", to Eric Clapton, Page, Brian Jones, John Mayall, and others; Dixon recalled giving out "lots of tapes [of songs] when I was over there", which were later recorded by the Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones.