Track Listing

1. All Around The World
2. Need Your Love So Bad
3. Home At Last
4. Fever
5. My Nerves
6. Suffering With The Blues
7. Person To Person
8. Talk To Me, Talk To Me
9. Spasms
10. Let's Rock While The Rockin's Good
11. Leave My Kitten Alone
12. Let Them Talk
13. I'm Shakin'
14. Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me)
15. Sleep
16. You Hurt Me
17. I Like To See My Baby
18. Take My Love (I Want To Give It All To You)
19. Big Blue Diamonds
20. My Baby's In Love With Another Guy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #192194 in Music
• Released on: 1993-12-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Best of

From Amazon.com
Standing slightly more than five feet tall, Little Willie John scored his first hit at age 17. That 1955 R&B smash--"All Around the World" (also known as "Grits Ain't Groceries")--reflected his status as a seasoned veteran of several leading jazz/R&B big bands. John went on to record such noble rockers as "I'm Shakin'" (covered by the Blasters) and "Leave My Kitten Alone" (covered by the Beatles). However, his greatest success came when he set his torchy, gospel-drenched tenor to slow blues ("Need Your Love So Bad"), standards ("Sleep"), heartbreak ballads ("Talk to Me" and "Let Them All Talk"), and his flame-broiled original version of the oft-covered (Peggy Lee, Madonna, the Cramps, among others) incendiary title track. John was only 30 when he died--reportedly of either pneumonia or a heart attack--while imprisoned for manslaughter in 1968. That same year, James Brown recorded an album called Thinking of Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things. One listen to this 20-song Little Willie John compilation will tell you why. --Don Waller