Off the Wall (Little Walter song)

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B-side"Tell Me Mama"
ReleasedApril 1953 (1953-04)
RecordedJanuary 1953
StudioUniversal, Chicago, Illinois
"Off the Wall"
Single by Little Walter
B-side"Tell Me Mama"
ReleasedApril 1953 (1953-04)
RecordedJanuary 1953
StudioUniversal, Chicago, Illinois
Genre
Length2:52
LabelChecker (Checker 770)
SongwriterWalter Jacobs
ProducersLeonard Chess and Phil Chess
Little Walter singles chronology
"Sad Hours / Mean Old World"
(1952)
"Off the Wall"
(1953)
"Blues with a Feeling"
(1953)

"Off the Wall" is a 1953 blues instrumental and single by Little Walter.[1] The single followed "Tell Me Mama", which had reached #10 on the R&B charts, reaching #8. Following Little Walter's recording Big Walter Horton claimed to be the composer, and he recorded the same harmonica-led tune in Memphis on 28 May 1953 for Sun Records. [2]

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