Little Red Rooster

Written by Willie Dixon and Chester Arthur Burnett    [Jewel Music Pub. Co. Ltd./Bug Music Ltd. 1963]

Trivia

• Sam first intended it for his brother L.C.

Recorded February 23, 1963 in the evening in the RCA Victor Studios in Hollywood California in 2 takes

Produced by Hugo Peretta and Luigi Creatore

Recording Engineer: Dave Hassinger

Musicians: Hal Blaine, Edward J. Hall: drums / Rene Hall, Cifton M White: guitar / Clifford Hils: bass / Raymond Johnson: Piano / Billy Preston: organ

Charts    #7 R&B and #11 pop

Billboard Review: "A definitive blues feel with a provocative lyric that swings in a middle tempo groove" (A billboard Pick - October 19, 1963)

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EPs    RCA 49850 with Another Saturday Night, You Send Me and Frankie & Johnny

Singles   

• RCA 8247 b/w You Gotta Move (October 8, 1963) 
• 0707 b/w Ain't That Good News

Albums:   

• Night Beat (original album)
• Portrait Of A Legend
• The Rhythm and the Blues
• The Man Who Invented Soul (box)
• The One And Only Sam Cooke
• All Hits 
• The Best of Sam Cooke, Volume 2
• Forever (32-tracks)
• The Golden Age of Sam Cooke 
• The Great Sam Cooke
• Greatest Hits
• Hits!
• Sam's Soul 
• 16 Most Requested Songs 
• Takeoff  
• This is Sam Cooke 
• 20 Greatest Hits
• The Best Of (Paradiso)
• 20 Greatest Hits (TeeVee)

Lyrics

I got a little red rooster
Too lazy to crow for day
I got a little red rooster
Too lazy to crow for day
He keeps everything in the barnyard
Upset in every way

The dogs begin to bark
the hounds begin to hound
the dogs begin to bark 
the hounds begin to hound
watch out all you kinfolkt,
my little red rooster's on the prowl

I tell you he keeps all the hens fightin among themselves
he keeps all the hens fightin among themselves
he don't want no hen in the barnyard
laying eggs for nobody else

if you see my red rooster
send him home
said if you see my red rooster
send him home
I had no peace in the barnyard
since my red rooster been gone