How Many More Years

"How Many More Years"
Single by Howlin' Wolf
A-side"Moanin' at Midnight"
ReleasedAugust 1951 (1951-08)
RecordedJuly 1951
StudioMemphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee
GenreBlues
Length2:43
LabelChess
Songwriter(s)Chester Burnett a.k.a. Howlin' Wolf (Originally credited to Carl Germany)
Producer(s)Sam Phillips
Howlin' Wolf singles chronology
"How Many More Years"
(1951)
"Riding In The Moonlight"
(1951)

"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".[1] It was a double-sided hit with "Moanin' at Midnight", which reached No. 10 on the R&B chart.

  1. ^ Alastair Mackay (August 2, 2012). "Cosmic Ceiling Tiles, Elvis Presley, and the Abiding Genius of Sam Phillips: What Made Sun the Crucible of Rock'n'Roll?". Alternatives to Valium. Archived from the original on 2014-03-08. Retrieved February 20, 2014