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Written by: McKinley Morganfield, Mel London, Ellas McDaniel
Produced by: Leonard and Phil Chess, Willie Dixon
Released: May '55 on Chess
Charts: Did not chart

In 1955, Waters heard Bo Diddley audition "I'm a Man" for Chess. Waters replied with "Mannish Boy." (Diddley got a credit as Ellas McDaniel, his real name.) Both songs were issued in 1955 -- and shot into the R&B Top Ten. "When I heard him, I realized the connection between all the music I heard," Keith Richards said of Waters. "He was like the code book."

Appears on: The Anthology (MCA/Chess)

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