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"Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" is a song written by Little Richard
which he usually performed as part of a medley with the Leiber and Stoller song "Kansas City
". It was first released in 1958 as the B-side to his recording of "Good Golly Miss Molly".
It was covered
by The Beatles
in the same medley on Beatles for Sale
and the US album Beatles VI
. It was later covered by The Libertines
in a one off Radio 1 Live set in September 2003. A cover by Ten Years After
on their 1974 album Positive Vibrations was titled Going Back To Birmingham. The Jim Jones Revue also cover the song on their first record and as a staple of their live shows. Bob Seger
also recorded a version of the song in the same session that produced his cover of Fats Domino
's "Blue Monday
" for the 1989 Road House
soundtrack album
. Seger's take on the song remained unreleased until 2011, when it was included on the retrospective album Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets
.
Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...
which he usually performed as part of a medley with the Leiber and Stoller song "Kansas City
Kansas City (R&B song)
"Kansas City" is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952. First recorded by Little Willie Littlefield the same year, the song later became a #1 hit when it was recorded by Wilbert Harrison in 1959...
". It was first released in 1958 as the B-side to his recording of "Good Golly Miss Molly".
It was covered
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
by The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
in the same medley on Beatles for Sale
Beatles for Sale
Beatles for Sale is the fourth studio album by the English rock band The Beatles, released in late 1964 and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. The album marked a minor turning point in the evolution of Lennon and McCartney as lyricists, John Lennon particularly now showing interest in...
and the US album Beatles VI
Beatles VI
Beatles VI is The Beatles' seventh Capitol Records release in the United States . It was the ninth album released into that market in less than one and a half years...
. It was later covered by The Libertines
The Libertines
The Libertines were an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty . The band, centred on the song-writing partnership of Barat and Doherty, also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career...
in a one off Radio 1 Live set in September 2003. A cover by Ten Years After
Ten Years After
Ten Years After is an English blues-rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart...
on their 1974 album Positive Vibrations was titled Going Back To Birmingham. The Jim Jones Revue also cover the song on their first record and as a staple of their live shows. Bob Seger
Bob Seger
Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist.As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s...
also recorded a version of the song in the same session that produced his cover of Fats Domino
Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino, Jr. is an American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Creole was his first language....
's "Blue Monday
Blue Monday (Fats Domino song)
"Blue Monday" is a song originally written by Dave Bartholomew, and first recorded by Smiley Lewis in 1954.It was later popularized in a recording by Fats Domino in 1956, on Imperial Records , on which the songwriting credit was shared between Bartholomew and Domino. Most later versions have...
" for the 1989 Road House
Road House (1989 film)
Road House is a 1989 American action film partially based on the life of Norman "Storm" Cantwell, directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze as a bouncer at a newly-refurbished roadside bar who protects a small town in Missouri from a corrupt businessman. Sam Elliot also plays a...
soundtrack album
Soundtrack album
A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...
. Seger's take on the song remained unreleased until 2011, when it was included on the retrospective album Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets
Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets
Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets is a compilation album by American rock singer–songwriter Bob Seger. The double-disc album was released on November 21, 2011 and contains 26 remastered tracks from throughout Seger's career, which spans more than four decades...
.