Little Red Rooster

Song composer(s)

Traditional / Dixon, Willie

Grateful Dead Recordings

Dead Set (1981)
Dick's Picks Vol. 9 (1997)

Dead Related Recordings

No Dead related recordings entered

Other Recordings

The Red Rooster
Single (Chess 1804) : Howlin' Wolf (1961)
Howlin' Wolf (aka Rocking Chair Album) : Howlin' Wolf (1962)
Carla : Carla Thomas (1966)
Heavy Heads : Various Artists (Howlin' Wolf) (1967)
Super Super Blues Band : Bo Diddley/Howlin' Wolf/Muddy Waters (1968)
Howlin' Wolf Album : Howlin' Wolf (1969)
Head over Heels : Head over Heels (1971)
Hawk : Ronnie Hawkins (1971)
London Howlin' Wolf Sessions : Howlin' Wolf & others (1971)
Muddy & the Wolf : Howlin' Wolf/Muddy Waters (1974)
Double Dynamite : Isaac Hayes (1974)
King of the Jungle : Eddie C. Campbell (1977)
Incomplete : Paula Lockheart (1980)
Rrrracket Time : Ronnie Hawkins & Hawks (1980)
Willie Dixon - Blues Roots, Vol. 12 : Various Artists (Howlin' Wolf) (1982)
Howlin' Wolf/Moanin' in the Moonlight : Howlin' Wolf (1986)
Greatest Hits : Howlin' Wolf (1986)
Moanin' & Howlin' : Howlin' Wolf (1988)
Heart & Soul : Hubert Sumlin (1989)
Rock & Roll Originators : Various Artists (Howlin' Wolf) (1990)
Chess Box : Howlin' Wolf (1991)
Chess Blues : Various Artists (Howlin' Wolf) (1992)
Double Feature : Isaac Hayes (1993)
Complete Recordings 1951-1967 : Howlin' Wolf (1993)
Moanin' in the Moonlite - 26 Hits : Howlin' Wolf (1994)
Music Never Stopped - Roots of the Grateful Dead : Various Artists (Howlin' Wolf) (1995)
Bitch Done Quit Me : King Ivory (1995)
Complete Hill/UA Recordings : Z. Z. Hill (1996)
Highway 49 & Other Classics : Howlin' Wolf (1996)
Blues Story, Vol. 1 : Various Artists (Howlin' Wolf) (1996)
Vintage Blues, Vol. 1 : Various Artists (Howlin' Wolf) (1996)
Chess Blues Classics - 1957-1967 : Various Artists (Howlin' Wolf) (1997)
Cause of It All : Howlin' Wolf (1997)
Chess Blues-Rock Songbook (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) : Various Artists (Howlin' Wolf) (1997)
His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) : Howlin' Wolf (1997)
Tribute to Howlin' Wolf : Howlin' Wolf Tribute Band (1998)
For The Blues . . . Always : Big Dave McLean (1998)
Old Man's Sweetheart : Donna Angelle (1998)
Once in a Blue Moon : Gerry Groom (19??)
Smokestack Lightning : Howlin' Wolf (19??)
Voo-It : Paula Lockheart (19??)

Little Red Rooster
Night Beat : Sam Cooke (1963)
Rolling Stones Now! : Rolling Stones (1965)
Big Hits Vol 1 (High Tide and Green Grass) : Rolling Stones (1966)
Ball N' Chain : Big Mama Thornton (1968)
Feliciano!/10 to 23 : Jose Feliciano (1969)
I Am the Blues : Willie Dixon (1970)
Way It Is : Big Mama Thornton (1970)
This Is Sam Cooke : Sam Cooke (1971)
Bad News Is Coming : Luther Allison (1972)
Rolled Gold - The Very Best of the Rolling Stones : Rolling Stones (1975)
Jail : Big Mama Thornton (1975)
On the Road Again : Luther "Georgia Boy Snake" Johnson (1976)
Lost in the Blues : Otis Rush (1977)
Golden Age : Sam Cooke (1978)
Bad Girl : Cherry Vanilla (1978)
Troubles Troubles : Otis Rush (1978)
Live in Paris : Luther Allison (1979)
Not Fade Away : Amiga Blues Band (1983)
All Night Boogie : Howlin' Wolf (1984)
Ridin' : Lucky Peterson (1984)
Slow Train : Savoy Brown (1986)
Cincinnati Stomp : Big Joe Duskin (1988)
Chess Box : Willie Dixon (1989)
Singles Collection - The London Years : Rolling Stones (1989)
Cobra Recordings, 1956-1958 : Otis Rush (1989)
Live at "Newport in New York" : Various Artists (Big Mama Thorton) (1989)
Blues Doctor : Drink Small (1990)
Just Like a Devil : Ron Thompson (1990)
Live at Cafe Lido : Harmonica Fats (1990)
Get a Grip on the Blues : Garth Webber (1991)
Be Ever Wonderful : Ted Taylor (1991)
In Concert : Doors (1991)
I Been Mistreated : Raful Neal (1991)
Ten Times as Live : Art Steele (1992)
Texas Cadillac :Smokin' Joe Kubek (1993)
Memphis Bound : Bryan Lee (1993)
Friend of Mine : Bill Morrissey (1993)
I Am the Blues : Big Daddy Kinsey (1993)
Bluesmen : Cephas & Wiggins (1993)
Sound of Speed : Jesus & Mary Chain (1994)
Right Around the Corner : Persuasions (1994)
On The Road Again : Luther Johnson (1994)
Who Do You Love : Boogie Bob (1994)
In Your Eyes : Sugar Blues (1995)
Chicago Blues Session! : Willie Mabon (1995)
Aron Burton Live : Aron Burton (1996)
Lafayette Soul Show : Lafayette Soul Show (1996)
Mick's Back : Mick Abrahams (1996)
Motown Years 1972-1976 : Luther Allison (1996)
Blues In The Year One-D-One : Big Time Sarah & The BTs Express (1996)
Essential Blues Harmonica : Essential Blues Harmonica (1997)
Bluescat : W. C. Spencer (1997)
Power Blues : J. B. Ritchie (1997)
Go Get My Baby : Andrew Macmahon (1997)
Where Have You Been? -- Live in Montreu : Luther Allison (1997)
Relix Records Best of Blues, Vol. 3 : Various Artists (1997)
Poet of the Blues : Willie Dixon (1998)
Golden Glass Plus... : Misunderstood (19??)
Legendary Gold Star Album//Golden Glass : Misunderstood (19??)

Notes

Lead vocals - Initially Pigpen then Weir.

Title is sometimes "The Red Rooster" or " The Little Red Rooster"

First recorded by Howlin' Wolf at the Chess Studios in Chicogo during June 1961 and released as The Red Rooster.