"It's All Over Now" was written by Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack. It was first released by The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack. The Rolling Stones had their first number-one hit with this song in July 1964.The Valentinos' original version of the song was played to the Rolling Stones during their first North American tour in June 1964 by New York radio DJ Murray the K.
Murray the K had an extended series of interviews with the Stones on his WINS Swinging Soiree hit radio show, following his similar success being the first DJ in US to have the Beatles with him on the air (February 1964). He played the Valentino's song to the Stones, who "raved on it" and said "it was their kind of song".
He also played the Stones "King Bee" (their Slim Harpo) cover the same night and remarked how they were able to achieve the real blues sound.
After the band heard "It's All Over Now" by the Womacks (aka the Valentinos) on the WINS show, they recorded it nine days later at Chess Studios in Chicago.
Years later Bobby Womack said in an interview that he told his manager that he did not want the Rolling Stones to record their version of the song, that he told Mick Jagger to get his own song. His manager convinced him to let the Rolling Stones record a version of the song.
Six months later when he received the royalty check for the song he told his manager that Mick Jagger can have any song he wants.
The Rolling Stones' version of "It's All Over Now" is the most famous version ever cut of the song.
It was the band's third single released in America, and stayed in the Billboard Hot 100 for ten weeks, peaking at #26. Months later it appeared on their second American album 12 X 5.
It was first released as a single in Great Britain, where it peaked at # 1 on the Disc Weekly charts, giving the Rolling Stones their first number one hit ever. At the time, the song was a big hit in Europe for the band and was a part of their live set in the 1960s.
In his 2010 autobiography, "Life", Keith Richards claims that John Lennon criticized Keith's guitar solo on this song and Keith agreed with him that it was not one of his best. This is surprising as Bruce Springsteen among many other guitar fans rank it as one of the most inspired guitar breaks ever recorded, and one that is still hard to mimic.
The music video, filmed in black and white and taken from The T.A.M.I. Show, features the band playing live in front of a crowd, while Mick Jagger dances around the stage and Keith Richards and Brian Jones sing backing vocals.
"Good Times, Bad Times", wtitten by Jagger and Richards was the B-side.
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