Little Walter – You’re So Fine

I’ve read so many artists influenced by Little Walter including The Band. I never really listened to him until recently. The man was magical on harmonica. He sounded so different at the time. He played using an amplified harmonica. He played it through a microphone and amp, giving it a loud, distorted sound that was new and exciting at the time and still is. As I read more about him…some call him The Jimi Hendrix of the Harmonica.

Little Walter’s (Marion Walter Jacobs) career took off when he joined Muddy Water’s band in the early 1950s. His first release was in 1947 with Ora Nelle Blues. He did really well in the R&B charts in the 1950s. He continued to perform and record throughout the 1960s, but his health and personal life crumbled. Little Walter died on February 15, 1968, at the age of 37 from injuries sustained in a fight.

You’re So Fine peaked at #2 on the R&B Charts 1954. It was written by Little Walter.

Here is a super-live version with Otis Rush.

You’re So Fine

You’re so fine pretty baby, let me love you all the time

Well and I got a girl she’s fine and brown
What I like about her, she’s mine all mine
She’s so fine, yes she’s so fine
You’re so fine pretty baby, let me love you all the time

Well I wanna give you all my money buy you diamond, everything
Till you be mine, baby then we will make romance
You’re so fine, yes you’re so fine
You are a fine healthy thing, I wanna love you all the time

Now you fill my conversation baby, you made me talk myself to death
I’m in love with you baby and I don’t want nobody else
You’re so fine, yeah you’re so fine
You are a fine healthy thing, I wanna love you all the time

Yeah you’re so fine baby, let me love you all the time

Now you know I love you baby and I just can’t help myself
Goin’ crazy ’cause you’re lovin’ someone else
You’re so fine, yeah you’re so fine
You are a fine healthy thing, let me love you all the time

Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player.

24 thoughts on “Little Walter – You’re So Fine”

    1. Yea that seems to be his personal story… although the man was a magician on a harmonica…I hear a lot of him in The Blues Traveler.

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  6. listenable song and he really is good on the harmonica. I see you mentioned Blues Traveler and funny, I was thinking that too but by way of ‘this song I can listen to’… I was in the supermarket yesterday and they played some Blues Traveler song – wasn’t the hit ‘Run Around’ but man, it was clearly Hopper and his guys – and after about two minutes I was thinking ‘man, that guy has to be the most singly annoying player in rock with those long, meandering, out of tune , four minute harmonica solos that serve no purpose! I’d rather listen to a four minute Ian Anderson flute solo!’ But used sparingly and tunefully, as say Dylan or Neil Young do, a fine addition to a tune

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    1. I’ve only played “Bob Dylan” harmonica before…on the weak side…more for atmosphere…but this is like playing Jimi Hendrix lol.
      It’s not easy…and yea anything too long can get old.

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      1. It’s all about the song! It’s why I love Don Henley, Mick Fleetwood and yes, Ringo on drums. They did their job great without you even noticing them.

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  8. The best of the harp players who moved north in the Great Migration. Jerry Portnoy, who was with Muddy Waters when I got really heavy into blues, played a lot of Walter’s instrumentals when the band was warming up for Muddy. He got real close, but Walter could just get this sound–you knew it was him playing…

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    1. Yea his sound was quite unique on the harp. I can also hear Blues Traveler ….well correct that….I can hear him in Blues Traveler quite a bit.
      I would have loved to hear one of those Muddy bands back in the day.

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  10. My father in law could play pretty well, always liked the harmonica, but I agree most bands don’t want to use one front and centre- it’s best used in conjunction, to add that flavour.

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