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font-size: 125%;">"Driving Wheel Blues"</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Driving_Wheel_Blues_single_cover.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6d/Driving_Wheel_Blues_single_cover.jpg/220px-Driving_Wheel_Blues_single_cover.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Driving_Wheel_Blues_single_cover.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="283" /></a></span></td></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: khaki;"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">Single</a> by the Honey Dripper <abbr title="also known as">a.k.a.</abbr> <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Sykes" title="Roosevelt Sykes">Roosevelt Sykes</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" title="A-side and B-side">B-side</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">"Barrel House Man"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">1936<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1936</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">February 18, 1936</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">Blues</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><span class="duration"><span class="min">3</span>:<span class="s">06</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Decca_Records" title="Decca Records">Decca</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Songwriter" title="Songwriter">Songwriter(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist">Roosevelt Sykes</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>Driving Wheel</b>", also called "<b>Drivin' Wheel</b>" or "<b>Driving Wheel Blues</b>", is <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> song first recorded by <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Sykes" title="Roosevelt Sykes">Roosevelt Sykes</a> (listed as "The Honey Dripper") in 1936. It was an influential early blues composition and has been recorded by numerous artists, including <a href="/wiki/Junior_Parker" title="Junior Parker">Junior Parker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al_Green" title="Al Green">Al Green</a>, whose renditions were hits on the record charts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Original_song">Original song</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Driving_Wheel&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Original song"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Roosevelt Sykes' "Driving Wheel Blues" is a solo twelve-bar blues, with Sykes providing piano accompaniment to his vocal. The song is performed at a medium tempo with the opening lyrics: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>People, I don't have to work and I ain't gonna rob and steal (2×)<br /> My baby gives me everything I need, she is my driving wheel </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Sykes' recorded the song on February 18, 1936, for <a href="/wiki/Decca_Records" title="Decca Records">Decca Records</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Herzhaft_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herzhaft-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was released before '<i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> magazine or a similar service began tracking such singles, but "Driving Wheel" is identified as influential early blues composition.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Herzhaft_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herzhaft-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sykes later recorded additional studio and live versions of the song.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A version from the late 1940s<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> includes the opening verse with the genders reversed: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>My baby don't have to work, she don't have to rob and steal (2×)<br /> I give her everything she needs, I am her driving wheel </p> </div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Renditions">Renditions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Driving_Wheel&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Renditions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Junior Parker, as "Little Junior Parker", recorded "Driving Wheel" for <a href="/wiki/Duke_Records" title="Duke Records">Duke Records</a> in 1960 or 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-Vera_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vera-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Parker's vocal line and lyrics follow Sykes' late 1940s version, the song uses a group arrangement with a horn section and adds a break in the middle of the song. Musician and music writer <a href="/wiki/Billy_Vera" title="Billy Vera">Billy Vera</a> notes: "Fronting a horn section was really how Junior heard himself. He was a singer, not a shouter. His voice was sweet, his vibrato throbbing<span class="nowrap"> </span>... [his songs] were all more melodic than the average blues."<sup id="cite_ref-Vera_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vera-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most subsequent versions of "Driving Wheel" show Parker's influence,<sup id="cite_ref-Vera_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vera-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the distinctive bass line. When the song was released in 1961, it spent eleven weeks on the US <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" title="Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs">R&B</a> chart, where it reached number five; it also reached number 85 in the pop chart.<sup id="cite_ref-Whitburn_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whitburn-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1971, soul/gospel singer Al Green recorded the song in Memphis for <a href="/wiki/Hi_Records" title="Hi Records">Hi Records</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Whitburn_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whitburn-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His song peaked at number 46 on the R&B chart and reached number 115 on the <a href="/wiki/Bubbling_Under_Hot_100_Singles" class="mw-redirect" title="Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles">Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles</a> pop chart.<sup id="cite_ref-Whitburn_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whitburn-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The song is included on the 1971 <i><a href="/wiki/Al_Green_Gets_Next_to_You" title="Al Green Gets Next to You">Al Green Gets Next to You</a></i> album<sup id="cite_ref-Erlewine_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Erlewine-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as various compilation albums. Green's version uses a different arrangement, in keeping with his soul music approach.<sup id="cite_ref-Erlewine_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Erlewine-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Driving_Wheel&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Herzhaft-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Herzhaft_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Herzhaft_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHerzhaft1992" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Herzhaft, Gerard (1992). 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