YOU GOT TO MOVE
Created on 16/12/2008Latest update on 14/06/2024
Artist: Willing Four
Author: traditional/Johnson
Label: Manor/Regis
Year: 1944
Same tune as Tampa Red's You Got To Reap What You Saw ('29). See also: Sitting On Top Of The World. Reissued on Document cd Vocal Quartets Vol 7.
Covers:
- 1946:
Elder Charles Beck [as You've Got To Move]
- 1946:
Two Gospel Keys [idem; on Moses Asch's Disc label]
- 1950:
- 1953:
Five Blind Boys Of Alabama [along with their This May Be The Last Time (see there) reissued on Ace cd The Sermon]
- 1959:
Brother Joe May [as When The Lord Gets Ready]
- 1965:
Mississippi Fred McDowell [as You Gotta Move; blues legend from Como, MS who made his first recording in 1959 for Alan Lomax]
- 1971:
Rolling Stones [idem on Sticky Fingers; crediting Fred McDowell, a fine financial gesture towards Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie records, who held its publishing rights; McDowell was wined and dined by the Stones, they bought him a silver lamé suit which he wore dayly at home in Como and where he was buried in]
- 1971:
Robert Wilkins [idem]
- 1991:
Radiators [idem]
- 1993:
Blue Blot Band [with Beverly Jo Scott]
- 1996:
Townes Van Zandt [in pain]
- 1997:
R.L. Burnside [who jammed with McDowell as a youngster]
- 1997:
- 1998:
Charles & The White Trash European Blues Connection [alias Arno]
- 2002:
- 2002:
- 2004:
Aerosmith [also cover Fred McDowell's Back Back Train]
- 2004:
- 2005:
- 2010:
- 2011:
- 2017:
North Mississippi Allstars [with Kenny Brown]
- 2019:
- 2020:
Lucinda Williams [on a Rolling Stones tribute]
- 2022:
- 2024:
Cedric Burnside [all as You Gotta Move]
Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy cut a You Got To Move in 1934 with different lyrics. The Soul Stirrers version is also different, cut by Rev. Gary Davis in 1954.
