How Many More Years
| "How Many More Years" | ||||
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| Single by Howlin' Wolf | ||||
| A-side | "Moanin' at Midnight" | |||
| Released | August 1951 | |||
| Recorded | July 1951 | |||
| Studio | Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 2:43 | |||
| Label | Chess | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Chester Burnett a.k.a. Howlin' Wolf (Originally credited to Carl Germany) | |||
| Producer(s) | Sam Phillips | |||
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"How Many More Years" is a blues song written and originally recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1951. Recorded at the Memphis Recording Service – which later became the Sun Studio – it was released by Chess Records and reached No. 4 on the Billboard R&B chart. Musician and record producer T Bone Burnett has described "How Many More Years" as "in some ways ... the first rock’n’roll song". It was a double-sided hit with "Moanin' at Midnight", which reached No. 10 on the R&B chart.