I recall when BOOM BOOM hit the radio airwaves on blues stations in 1962. When I was a teen, I used to listen to R&B and Blues radio stations from Louisiana and Arkansas at late night. Rocky from Tulsa, OkWhat a song!! I'm a fan of John Lee Hooker from way back.When Boom Boom was played, they brought down the house!!
It is a blues song, but it is an "all out rocker!!" About ten or 12 years ago, Eric Burdon reunited with the Animals for a U.S. Mercy! This version still can "raise the dead" if ya know what I mean. Last year (2013), ABKCO Records released a "Best of The Animals" CD with digitally remastered songs, to include Boom Boom. And I am not sure, but think Boom Boom was on it too. Hooker did a double album with Canned Heat in the Seventies I really loved too. What a blues master! It's unfortunate that VeeJay Records in Chicago folded up and cheated so many of its artists (the Four Seasons included!) of royalties and other monies due them. Then later, I learned it was written & recorded by Hooker.
Not many of us kids paid much attention to the Billboard charts back then. In this area back in '64 I recall it was on our local rock charts Top Ten. You can hear the song playing as artillery explodes! I first hear this song as the Animals' version from 1964 when I was in high school.
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Hooker passed away on June 21st, 2001 at the age of 83. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 20th 1962, "Boom Boom" by John Lee Hooker entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #100 eight weeks later on July 15th, 1962 it would peak at #60.
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