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 No. 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
• Producer - Sam Cooke

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. Murray the K had an extended series of interviews with the Stones on his WINS Swinging Soiree hit radio show following his similar success as the first radio DJ in the USA to have the Beatles with him on the air (February 1964). He played the Valentinos' song to the Stones, who "raved on it" and said "it was their kind of song". He also played the Stones' "King Bee" (their Slim Harpo cover) the same night and remarked on their ability to achieve an authentic blues sound. After hearing "It's All Over Now" by the Womacks (aka the Valentinos) on the WINS show, the band recorded their version nine days later at Chess Studios in Chicago. Years later, Bobby Womack said in an interview that he had told his manager he did not want the Rolling Stones to record their version of the song, and that he had told Mick Jagger to get his own song. His manager convinced him to let the Rolling Stones record the song. Six months later on receiving the royalty check for the song he told his manager that Mick Jagger could have any song he wanted.

The Rolling Stones' version of "It's All Over Now" is the most famous version ever cut of the song. It was first released as a single in Great Britain, where it peaked at number 1 on the Disc Weekly charts, giving the Rolling Stones their first number one hit ever. It was the band's third single released in America, and stayed in the Billboard Hot 100 for ten weeks, peaking at number 26. Months later it appeared on their second American album 12 X 5. The song was a big hit in Europe and was part of the bands live set in the 1960s.

In his 2010 autobiography, "Life", Keith Richards says that John Lennon criticized his guitar solo on this song and Richards agreed that it was not one of his best, though Bruce Springsteen and many other guitar fans rank it as one of the most inspired guitar breaks ever recorded, and one that is still hard to mimic.

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 Keith Richards and Brian Jones sing backing vocals. Brian plays the memorable smashing chord drives on this one (typically on his Vox Phantom or Teardrop) while Keith plays the arpeggios, does the harmony vocal, and plays the signature lead guitar break (on his Epiphone or his Gibson Les Paul in those days) in the middle of the song. A careful viewing of this song taken from The T.A.M.I. Show will note the fact that on the last refrain of "because I used to love her, but it's all over now," Mick Jagger uses the "F" word in lieu of the word "love."

Personnel

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

Other versions

• My Cousin, The Emperor on The Subway Eps, Vol. II: Broadway- Lafayette
• Johnny Rivers on In Action
• Waylon Jennings on The One and Only
• Rod Stewart on Gasoline Alley
• Molly Hatchet on Flirtin' with Disaster
• John Anderson on the 1985 album Tokyo, Oklahoma. His version peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
• In 1989 by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band on Voodoo, featuring Dr. John on vocals and piano
• Rebirth Brass Band, on the 1999 album The Main Event: Live at the Maple Leaf
• Ducks Deluxe
• The Sharks
• Feargal Sharkey on his self-titled debut album
• The Grateful Dead
• AC/DC
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (only available on a bootleg from one of the band's 1997 appearances at The Fillmore Auditorium)
• Social Distortion on Japanese edition of their self-titled album
• Arno
• Mabel on Another Fine Mess!
• 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.
• Austrian singer Falco covered the song on his 1985 album Falco 3

Amy Correia covers the Rod Stewart "medley" of Gasoline Alley/It's All Over Now on "THE I-10 CHRONICLES 2" (2001

See also

• List of number-one singles from the 1960s (UK)

External links

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