Little Willie John

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Fever 00:00 Tools
Need Your Love so Bad 02:18 Tools
I'm Shakin' 00:00 Tools
All Around the World 00:00 Tools
You Hurt Me 00:00 Tools
Leave My Kitten Alone 00:00 Tools
Talk to Me, Talk to Me 00:00 Tools
My Nerves 00:00 Tools
Sleep 00:00 Tools
No Regrets 00:00 Tools
Suffering With the Blues 00:00 Tools
Home At Last 00:00 Tools
Spasms 00:00 Tools
My Love Is 00:00 Tools
Let Them Talk 00:00 Tools
Person To Person 00:00 Tools
Let's Rock While the Rockin's Good 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me) 00:00 Tools
Uh Uh Baby 00:00 Tools
Tell It Like It Is 00:00 Tools
I'm Shakin 02:35 Tools
Letter From My Darling 00:00 Tools
Take My Love (I Want To Give It All To You) 00:00 Tools
You're a Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Do Something For Me 00:00 Tools
Young Girl 00:00 Tools
A Cottage for Sale 00:00 Tools
If I Thought You Needed Me 00:00 Tools
Look What You've Done To Me 00:00 Tools
Big Blue Diamonds 00:00 Tools
Need Your Love 00:00 Tools
Are You Ever Coming Back 00:00 Tools
My Baby's In Love With Another Guy 00:00 Tools
Will the Sun Shine Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
Walk Slow 00:00 Tools
Don't Leave Me Dear 00:00 Tools
I've Been Around 00:00 Tools
I'll Carry Your Love Wherever I Go 00:00 Tools
You Got To Get Up Early In The Morning 00:00 Tools
All My Love Belongs to You 00:00 Tools
No More in Life 00:00 Tools
Drive Me Home 00:00 Tools
Let Nobody Love You 00:00 Tools
Do You Love Me 00:00 Tools
There's a Difference 00:00 Tools
Right There 00:00 Tools
Loving Care 00:00 Tools
Love, Life And Money 00:00 Tools
Don't Be Ashamed to Call My Name 00:00 Tools
I'm Sticking With You Baby 00:00 Tools
(I've Got) Spring Fever 00:00 Tools
Now You Know 00:00 Tools
I've Got To Go Cry 00:00 Tools
Made for Me 00:00 Tools
The Very Thought of You 00:00 Tools
A Little Bit Of Loving 00:00 Tools
Dinner Date 00:00 Tools
Until You Do 00:00 Tools
Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me 00:00 Tools
Flamingo 00:00 Tools
don't play with love 00:00 Tools
There Is Someone In This World For Me 00:00 Tools
I Like To See My Baby 00:00 Tools
It only hurts a little while 00:00 Tools
Im Shakin 00:00 Tools
I Need Your Love So Bad 00:00 Tools
I'm Shakin'. 00:00 Tools
Talk to Me Talk to Me 00:00 Tools
I'm Sorry 00:00 Tools
I'm Stickin' With You Baby 00:00 Tools
Talk to Me 00:00 Tools
She Thinks I Still Care 00:00 Tools
I Like To See My Baby (with Hank Ballard) 00:00 Tools
Inside Information 00:00 Tools
Mommy What Happened To Our Christmas Tree 00:00 Tools
Doll Face 00:00 Tools
Love Life and Money 00:00 Tools
Until Again My Love 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
Mister Glenn 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Could Cry 00:00 Tools
Rock Love 00:00 Tools
Come Back To Me 00:00 Tools
Take My Love 00:00 Tools
Need Your Love So Bad (1955) 00:00 Tools
Fever - Original Version 00:00 Tools
Half A Love 00:00 Tools
Every Beat of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Fever (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Like Boy, Like Girl 00:00 Tools
Cottage For Sale 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go (Take 4) 00:00 Tools
Katanga 00:00 Tools
Let`s Rock While The Rockin`s Good 00:00 Tools
Don't Leave Me My Dear 00:00 Tools
Untill You Do 00:00 Tools
Fever - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Uh Uh Baby! 00:00 Tools
(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade is Over 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Go Back on My Word 00:00 Tools
Fever (1956) 00:00 Tools
Endless Sleep 00:00 Tools
All Around The World (Aka Grits Ain't Groceries) 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak (It's Hurting me) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Kitten Alone (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Thompson, Sonny 00:00 Tools
Without A Friend 00:00 Tools
New Thing 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go 00:00 Tools
You're a Sweatheart 00:00 Tools
Bo-Da-Ley Didd-Ley 00:00 Tools
Write Me a Letter 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak 00:00 Tools
Crying Over You (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Suffering with the Blues (Take 4) 00:00 Tools
Country Girl aka Home at Last (Take 8) 00:00 Tools
Heaven All Around Me 00:00 Tools
I’M Shakin’ 00:00 Tools
My Nerves - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Need Your Love so Bad (From "Spike Jonze's Her") 00:00 Tools
Welcome To The Club 00:00 Tools
If I Loved You (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Fever (With String Overdub) 00:00 Tools
I HAD A DREAM AKA JUST A DREAM (Take 7) 00:00 Tools
Home At Last - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
In the Dark (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
I Had A Dream 00:00 Tools
Welcome to the Club (Take 8) 00:00 Tools
Come on Sugar 00:00 Tools
Don't You Know I'm In Love 00:00 Tools
My Love will Never Change 00:00 Tools
Let's Rock Whilst The Rocking's Good 00:00 Tools
Need Your Love So Bad - (studi 00:00 Tools
Bill Bailey 00:00 Tools
Grits Ain't Groceries 00:00 Tools
Uh Uh Baby (No No Baby) 00:00 Tools
Take My Love(I Want To Give It All To You) 00:00 Tools
So Lonely 00:00 Tools
You Are My Sunshine (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
You Are My Sunshine 00:00 Tools
(I Need) Someone (Take 12) 00:00 Tools
Early in the Morning (Take 8) 00:00 Tools
Young Girl - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Little Willie John - Fever 02:41 Tools
(I've Got)Spring Fever 00:00 Tools
Uh Uh Baby - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
I'm Shakin' (King 5342 -60) 00:00 Tools
Fever (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Love Life & Money - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Until I Do - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Early In The Morning 00:00 Tools
Crying Over You 00:00 Tools
Do You Love Me? 00:00 Tools
I'm Sticking With You - (studi 00:00 Tools
If I Loved You 00:00 Tools
I Had A Dream aka Just A Dream (Alt. Take) 00:00 Tools
If I Thought You Need Me 00:00 Tools
I'll Carry Your Love Whereever I Go 00:00 Tools
FEVER (Original 1956) 00:00 Tools
Country Girl aka Home At Last (Alt. Take) 00:00 Tools
Early In The Morning (Alt. Take) 00:00 Tools
Dinner Date - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Suffering With Blues - (studio 00:00 Tools
Talk To Me,Talk To Me 00:00 Tools
Suffering With The Blues (Alt. Take) 00:00 Tools
Are You Ever Coming Back? 00:00 Tools
I Need Someone 00:00 Tools
Leave My Kitten Alone - "Cats" 00:00 Tools
I'm Shakin' (King) 00:00 Tools
Lets Rock While the Rovkins Good 00:00 Tools
Very First Thought Of You 00:00 Tools
Look What You Done to Me 00:00 Tools
Do You Love Me ? 00:00 Tools
Do Somethng For Me 00:00 Tools
Little Bit Of Loving - (studio 00:00 Tools
Ill Carry Your Love Wherever I Go 00:00 Tools
There Is Someone In The World For Me 00:00 Tools
Fever-1956-King 00:00 Tools
Let‘s Rock While The Rockin‘s Good 00:00 Tools
Need You Love So Bad 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak (It’s Hurtin’ Me) 00:00 Tools
In The Dark 00:00 Tools
You’re a Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
If You Thought You Needed Me 00:00 Tools
Talk To Me, Talk To Me (Digitally Remastered) 02:42 Tools
Look What You‘ve Done To Me 00:00 Tools
Youre a Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Go Back in My Word 00:00 Tools
Dont Be Ashamed to Call My Name 00:00 Tools
Fever - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Fever | Igit | The Voice France 2014 | Blind Audition 00:00 Tools
Take My Love (I Want to Give It All to You ) 00:00 Tools
I´m Shakin 00:00 Tools
Fever (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
My Baby‘s In Love With Another Guy 00:00 Tools
Let’s Rock While the Rockin’s Good 00:00 Tools
Why Don‘t You Haul Off And Love Me 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak It's Hurtin' Me 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak (It's Hurtin Me) 00:00 Tools
All Around the World - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Let’s Rock While The Rockin’s Good (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
fever - little willie john 02:41 Tools
Need Your Love So Bad - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Love, Life & Money 00:00 Tools
There Is Someone in This World 00:00 Tools
Theres a Difference 00:00 Tools
(I’ve Got) Spring Fever 00:00 Tools
Spring Fever 00:00 Tools
Suffering With Blues - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
My Love-Is (Underdub Take 9) 00:00 Tools
Fever (Mono) 00:00 Tools
Little Bit Of Loving - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
I'm Sticking With You - (Studio) 00:00 Tools
Sleep Walk 00:00 Tools
You Never Miss a Good Woman Till She's Gone 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak(It's Hurting Me) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Kitten Alone (King 5219) 00:00 Tools
Country girl 00:00 Tools
Country Girl aka Home At Last 00:00 Tools
All Around the World - All Around the World 2 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak (Its Hurtin me) 02:53 Tools
A Cottage for Sale - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Big Blue Diamond 00:00 Tools
Lets Rock While The Rockin's Good 00:00 Tools
Fever ('56) 00:00 Tools
I'm Sticking With You Baby [Alt Version] 00:00 Tools
fever (mad daddy version) 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak (It S Hurtin Me) - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Cheerful Baby 00:00 Tools
Don T Be Ashamed to Call My Name - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
All Around The World/Little Willie John 00:00 Tools
Don'€™t Play With Love 00:00 Tools
I ve Got Spring Fever 00:00 Tools
Do Something for Me - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Little Willie John 00:00 Tools
Dinner Date - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Happy Pay Day (The Blacksmith Blues) 00:00 Tools
I Ll Never Go Back On My Word - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
'm Shakin' 00:00 Tools
Your Love Wasn't So 00:00 Tools
Are You Ever Coming Back - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
I Ve Got Spring Fever - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Rockin' Chair Mama 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak (It s Hurtin Me) 00:00 Tools
Lets Rock While The Rockins Good 00:00 Tools
16 - Little Willie John - Fever 00:00 Tools
Loneliness 00:00 Tools
Leave My Kitten Alone (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Untill Again My Love 00:00 Tools
Fever - 1956 00:00 Tools
My Baby's In Love With Another 00:00 Tools
I've Been Lost 00:00 Tools
Welcome to the Club (alt take) 00:00 Tools
Alittle Bit of Loving 00:00 Tools
Too Late for Me 00:00 Tools
Mean Mean Woman 00:00 Tools
LITTLE WILLIE JOHN - I'm Shakin' 02:26 Tools
All Around the World (Grits Ain't Groceries) 00:00 Tools
Lump in My Throat (Tears in My Eyes) 00:00 Tools
I’m Shakin 00:00 Tools
Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me (Underdub Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Dont Play With Love. 00:00 Tools
Need Your Love So Bad - 1956 00:00 Tools
Take My Love (I Want To Give I 00:00 Tools
I Like to See My Baby (feat. Hank Ballard) 00:00 Tools
Leave My Kitten Alone (The Undertakers) 00:00 Tools
EARLY IN THE MORNING (Alt Take) 00:00 Tools
Don t Be Ashamed To Call My Name 00:00 Tools
I Ll Carry Your Love Wherever I Go 00:00 Tools
If I Thought You Needed Me - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Trouble Around Me 00:00 Tools
Look What You’ve Done to Me 00:00 Tools
Don t Leave Me Dear 00:00 Tools
Suffering with the Blues (Alt take) 00:00 Tools
AlI Little Bit Of Loving 00:00 Tools
IN THE DARK (Alt Take) 00:00 Tools
Do You Love Me - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Take My Love (I Want to Give It All to You 00:00 Tools
Hit the Road 00:00 Tools
I ll Never Go Back On My Word 00:00 Tools
Don’t Leave Me My Dear 00:00 Tools
Need Your Love so Bad (From Spike Jonze's "Her") 00:00 Tools
It's Midnight (No Place to Go) 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak - Its Hurtin Me 00:00 Tools
No Regrets (Blue Ruin OST) 00:00 Tools
Country Girl (take 8 - mono) 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak (It's Killing Me) 00:00 Tools
(I Need) Someone 00:00 Tools
I'll Carry Your Love Wherever 00:00 Tools
Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me? (Underdub Take 1) 00:00 Tools
You Hurt Me (King 5428) 00:00 Tools
I had a Dream aka Just a Dream (alt take) 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go (alt take) 00:00 Tools
Need Your Love So Bad [12C0] 00:00 Tools
All Around The World (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Little Willie John - Need Your Love So Bad 00:00 Tools
Home At Last - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Talk To Me - One Of My All Time Favorites 00:00 Tools
I Ll Carry Your Love Wherever I Go - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
#228. I'm Shakin' 00:00 Tools
Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me 00:00 Tools
Flamingo - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
All My Love Belongs to You - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Don´t Be Ashamed to Call My Name 00:00 Tools
Are You Stickin' With You Baby 00:00 Tools
You Got To Get Up Early In The Mornng 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak - It's Hurtin Me 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go (take 4 - mono) 00:00 Tools
(I Need) Someone (take 12 - mono) 00:00 Tools
Don't Be Ashamed To Call My Na 00:00 Tools
Why Don't You Haul Off And Lov 00:00 Tools
Country Girl (alt. take - stereo) 00:00 Tools
I Had A Dream (take 7 - mono) 00:00 Tools
Early In The Morning (take 8 - mono) 00:00 Tools
You Are My Sunshine (take 3 - mono) 00:00 Tools
(I'm Afraid ) The Masquerade Is Over 00:00 Tools
Crying Over You (alt. take - stereo) 00:00 Tools
Country Girl aka Home at Last (alt take) 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
I'm Shakin - Little Wille John 00:00 Tools
Think 00:00 Tools
A Little Bit of Loving - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
I’ve Been Around 00:00 Tools
A Cottage For Sale. 00:00 Tools
I’ll Carry Your Love Wherever I Go 00:00 Tools
Why Don´t You Haul Off and Love Me 00:00 Tools
Will the Sun Shine 00:00 Tools
#202a. Need Your Love So Bad 00:00 Tools
Leave Me Kitten Alone 00:00 Tools
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Little Willie John (William Edward John, November 15, 1937 - May 26, 1968), was an American Rhythm & Blues singer who performed in the 1950s and early 1960s. Many sources erroneously give his middle name as Edgar. He is best known for his popular music chart successes with songs such as, "All Around the World" (1955), "Need Your Love So Bad" (1956) and "Fever" the same year, the latter covered in 1958 by Peggy Lee. An important figure in early R&B music, Little Willie John was a 1996 Inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was born in Cullendale, Arkansas, one of ten children, his family moving to Detroit, Michigan when he was four so that his father could pursue factory work. In the late 1940s, the eldest children, including Willie, formed a gospel singing group, and Willie also performed in talent shows, which brought him to the notice of Johnny Otis and, later, musician and producer Henry Glover. After seeing him sing with the Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams orchestra, Glover signed him to a recording contract with King Records in 1955. He was nicknamed "Little Willie" John for his short stature. His first recording, a version of Titus Turner's "All Around the World", was a hit, reaching # 5 on the Billboard R&B chart. He followed up with a string of R&B hits, including the original version of "Need Your Love So Bad", written by his elder brother Mertis John Jr. One of his biggest hits, "Fever" (1956) (Pop #24), was more famously covered by Peggy Lee in 1958. However, John's version alone sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Another song, "Talk to Me, Talk to Me" recorded in 1958, reached #5 in the R&B chart and #20 in the Pop chart, and also sold over one million. A few years later it was a hit once again by Sunny & the Sunglows. He also recorded "I'm Shakin'" by Rudy Toombs, "Suffering With The Blues", and "Sleep" (1960) (Pop #13). In all, John made the Billboard Hot 100 a total of fourteen times. A cover version of "Need Your Love So Bad" by Fleetwood Mac was also a hit in Europe. Another of his songs to be covered was "Leave My Kitten Alone", (1959). The Beatles recorded a version in 1964, intended for their Beatles for Sale album, but it went unreleased until 1995. Willie John was known for his short temper and propensity to abuse alcohol, and was dropped by his record company in 1963. In 1966, he was convicted of manslaughter and sent to Washington State Penitentiary for a fatal knifing incident following a show in Seattle. He appealed against his conviction and was released while the case was reconsidered, during which time he recorded what was intended to be his comeback album, but owing to contractual wrangling and the decline of his appeal, it was not released until 2008 (as Nineteen Sixty Six). Little Willie John died in 1968 at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington. Despite counter claims, the official cause of death was listed in his death certificate as a heart attack. His interment was in Warren, Michigan's Detroit Memorial Park East. Little Willie John was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. He was the brother of singer Mable John, who recorded for Motown and Stax, and the father of Keith John, a long time backing vocalist for Stevie Wonder. James Brown, who early in his career had opened shows for John, recorded a tribute album, Thinking about Little Willie John... and a Few Nice Things. Robbie Robertson, former lead guitarist for The Band, referenced John in a song on his 1987 self-titled album titled "Somewhere Down the Crazy River." He was also referenced in Tom Russell's "Blue Wing." A biography, Fever: Little Willie John; A Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul, written by Susan Whitall with Kevin John (another son of Little Willie John) was released in 2011 by Titan Books. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.