It's All Over Now

For the unrelated song of the same name by Blackfoot, see After the Reign.

"It's All Over Now"
Song
B-side	"Good Times, Bad Times" (Jagger/Richards)

"It's All Over Now" was written by Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack. It was first released by The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack. The Valentinos version entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 27, 1964, where it stayed on the chart for two weeks, peaking at #94. The Rolling Stones had their first number-one hit with this song in July 1964.

The Valentinos version

• Bobby Womack - lead vocals,guitar, co-writer
• Cecil Womack - background vocals
• Harry Womack - background vocals
• Friendly Womack Jr. - background vocals
• Curtis Womack - background vocals

The Rolling Stones version

The Valentinos' original version of the song was played to the Rolling Stones during their first North American tour in June 1964 by New York radio DJ Murray the K. After the band heard the song they recorded it nine days later at Chess Studios in Chicago. Years later Bobby Womack said in an interview that he told his manager that he did not want the Rolling Stones to record their version of the song, that he told Mick Jagger to get his own song. His manager convinced him to let the Rolling Stones record a version of the song. Six months later when he received the royalty check for the song he told his manager that Mick Jagger can have any song he wants. The Rolling Stones' version of "It's All Over Now" is the most famous version ever cut of the song. It was the band's third single released in America, and stayed in the Billboard Hot 100 for ten weeks, peaking at #26. Months later it appeared on their second American album 12 X 5. It was first released as a single in Great Britain, where it peaked at # 1 on the Disc Weekly charts, giving the Rolling Stones their first number one hit ever. At the time, the song was a big hit in Europe for the band and was a part of their live set in the 1960s.

Music video

The music video, filmed in black and white and taken from The T.A.M.I. Show, features the band playing live in front of a crowd, while Mick Jagger dances around the stage and Brian Jones sings backing vocals.

Personnel

• Mick Jagger - lead vocals, percussion
• Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals
• Brian Jones - guitar, backing vocals
• Bill Wyman - bass guitar
• Charlie Watts - drums

Other versions

• Waylon Jennings on The One and Only
• Rod Stewart on Gasoline Alley
• Molly Hatchet on Flirtin' with Disaster
• In 1989 by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band on Voodoo, featuring Dr. John on vocals and piano
• Ducks Deluxe
• The Sharks
• Feargal Sharkey on his self-titled debut album
• The Grateful Dead
• AC/DC
• Social Distortion
• Arno
• Nils Lofgren on Wonderland
• Ry Cooder on his album Paradise and Lunch
• Johnny Winter on Captured Live!
• In the 1978 live recording by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils titled, It's Alive, recorded at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois