The Animals version Įnglish rock band the Animals recorded "Boom Boom" for their 1964 UK debut album The Animals. He reworked the song as "Bang Bang Bang Bang" for his Live at Soledad Prison album, as a South Side Chicago street musician in the film The Blues Brothers (but the song itself is not included in the film soundtrack), and as the title track for his 1992 album Boom Boom with Jimmie Vaughan.
Following the success of the Animals' version, Hooker re-recorded the song in 1968 for Stateside Records as the B-side of "Cry Before I Go" under the longer title "Boom Boom Boom". Thirty years later in the UK, after being featured in a Lee Jeans commercial in 1992, the song reached number 16 in the UK Singles Chart. It was included on the 1962 Vee-Jay album Burnin' (SR 1043) as well as many Hooker compilations, including John Lee Hooker: The Ultimate Collection.
The song also entered the Billboard Hot 100, where it reached number 60, making it one of only two Hooker singles to enter the pop chart. It entered the Billboard R&B chart on June 16, 1962, where it spent eight weeks and reached number 16. When "Boom Boom" was released as a single in May 1962, the song became a hit.
"Boom Boom" became the Hooker song that is "the most memorable, the most instantly appealing, and the one which has proved the most adaptable to the needs of other performers". Īccording to Hooker, he wrote the song during an extended engagement at the Apex Bar in Detroit.Īlso included are several wordless phrases, "how-how-how-how" and "hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm". The song uses "a stop-time hook that opens up for one of the genre's most memorable guitar riffs" and incorporates a middle instrumental section Hooker-style boogie. It has been described as "about the tightest musical structure of any Hooker composition: its verses sedulously adhere to the twelve-bar format over which Hooker generally rides so roughshod". The original "Boom Boom" is an uptempo (168 beats per minute) blues song, which has been notated in time in the key of F. Hooker had a unique sense of timing, which demanded "big-eared sidemen".
They have been described as "just the right band" for "Boom Boom". Hunter brought with him "the cream of the Motown label's session men, later known as the Funk Brothers": bassist James Jamerson, drummer Benny Benjamin, plus guitarist Larry Veeder, tenor saxophonist Hank Cosby, and baritone saxophonist Andrew "Mike" Terry. Detroit pianist Joe Hunter, who had previously worked with Hooker, was again enlisted for the recording session. However, with Vee-Jay, he usually recorded with a small backing band, as heard on the singles " Dimples", "I Love You Honey", and "No Shoes". Prior to recording for Vee-Jay Records, John Lee Hooker was primarily a solo performer or accompanied by a second guitarist, such as early collaborators Eddie Burns or Eddie Kirkland.
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