Suzi Quatro - Shakin' All Over (Johnny Kidd and The Pirates Cover) - Video
PUBLISHED:  Mar 30, 2012
DESCRIPTION:
From '' Suzi Quatro ''
Label: RAK -- OC 062 94796, EMI -- OC 062 94796
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: UK
Released: 1973

Tracklist
A1 48 Crash
A2 Glycerine Queen
A3 Shine My Machine
A4 Official Suburbian Superman
A5 I Wanna Be Your Man
A6 Primitive Love
B1 All Shook Up
B2 Sticks & Stones
B3 Skin Tight Skin
B4 Get Back Mamma
B5 Rockin' Moonbeam
B6 Shakin' All Over
B7 Can The Can

Bass, Lead Vocals -- Suzi Quatro
Drums, Backing Vocals -- Dave Neal
Guitar, Slide Guitar, Backing Vocals -- Len Tuckey
Electric Piano, Grand Piano, Mellotron, Backing Vocals -- Alastair McKenzie

Engineer -- Pete Coleman
Mastered By -- Chris Blair
Photography By -- Gered Mankowitz
Producer -- Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn

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"Shakin' All Over" is a rock and roll song originally performed by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates.
It was written by frontman Johnny Kidd and reached #1 in the United Kingdom in August 1960.
The musicians who performed on the recording were Johnny Kidd (vocals), Alan Caddy (guitar), Brian Gregg (bass), Clem Cattini (drums) and Joe Moretti (lead guitar).

Other versions

In 1965, The Guess Who/Chad Allan and the Expressions covered the song on a single, which reached #1 in Canada, #22 in the U.S.
In 1965, Donna Loren performed the song on the television series Shindig.
She later recorded the song for her 2010 album Love It Away.
In 1967, The song was covered by Josephine Siao and Lui Kie in The Lady Killer. This Cantonese rendition was one of the best hits in the 1960s in Hong Kong.
In 1969, Performed by Humble Pie on Live at the Whiskey A-Go-Go.
Performed many times by The Who, (sometimes in a medley with "Spoonful"), perhaps most famously at Woodstock in 1969 and on Live at Leeds in 1970.
In 1971, The Flamin' Groovies covered the song on the reissue of Teenage Head.
In 1976, Rabbit included the song on their album "Too Much Rock 'n' Roll".
In 1986, the Beach Boys sampled the vibrato guitar break in their hit "Rock 'n' Roll to the Rescue".
In 1986, Chris Spedding included this song on his album Enemy Within.
In 1989, Cows recorded a noise rock version of the song on their "Daddy Has a Tail" album with improvised lyrics since the lead singer did not know the actual lyrics to the song.
In 1989, Steve Marriott and Steve Parsons covered it for the Canadian Horror Film, Gnaw: Food of the Gods Part 2.
In 1993, Van Morrison recorded a live medley version of the song with "Gloria" on his double live album A Night in San Francisco, released in 1994.
In 1999, The Blue Hawaiians covered the song on their Savage Night album.
Recorded by The British Invasion All-Stars with original Pirates guitarist Mick Green on lead guitar. Appears on The Yardbirds Family Tree album. Mooreland St Records, 2006.
AC/DC stated that the main riff of "Back in Black" was influenced by Kidd's version of the song.
AC/DC's original lead singer Dave Evans had recorded the song with his band Rabbit in 1976.

Also covered by:

Led Zeppelin
Mud
Vince Taylor
Adam Ant
Rose Hill Drive
Suzi Quatro
Iggy Pop
Brave Belt
Dee Dee Ramone
Those Darlins
The Lords
Generation X
The Swinging Blue Jeans
Bim Skala Bim on their album Universal
Cem Karaca
MC5
Eilen Jewell on Sea of Tears
Mae West on Way Out West
Cows
Turbo Fruits
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Bachman--Turner Overdrive
Agent Orange
Horslips on The Belfast Gigs
Kalevala
Hurriganes
The Head Cat
Terry Dene re-released on the 2003 album "The Real Terry Dene"
Wanda Jackson & Jack White
The Vibrators
Robin Lane and the Chartbusters
Clinton Machine
Hello

References in popular culture

The Guess Who version was included in the Battlefield Vietnam soundtrack.
It can also be heard in the 2006 Edie Sedgwick biopic, Factory Girl. The Guess Who version was also featured in a Hugo Boss XY and XX Fragrance commercial, featuring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Bette Franke.
Shakin' All Over is the name of a CBC Television documentary on Canadian rock music in the 1950s and 1960s.
In 1998 Australia Post issued a special edition set of twelve stamps celebrating the early years of Australian Rock 'n' Roll, featuring Australian hit songs of the late 1950s, the 1960s and the early 1970s.

"Each of them said something about us, and told the rest of the world this is what popular culture sounds like, and it has an Australian accent."
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