Hooker passed away on June 21st, 2001 at the age of 83.
Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 20th 1962, "Boom Boom" by John Lee Hooker entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #100 eight weeks later on July 15th, 1962 it would peak at #60.I gave her some bread for it, too, so she was pretty happy." She went around telling everybody I got John Lee to write that song. Then, after I did it, the Animals turned around and did it. So then if anybody got the idea to do it I had them by the neck, because I had it copyrighted. After I got it copyrighted I could do it in the bar. So I sent it to Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress, and I got it copyrighted. I figured somebody would grab it before I got it copyrighted. Then I went and sang it, and everybody went, Wow! Then I didn't do it no more, not in the bar. I finally got it down right, got it together, got it down in my head. I got up the next day and put one and one together, two and two together, trying to piece it out - taking things out, putting things in. At night I went to bed and I was still thinking of it. I took that thing and I hummed it all the way home from the bar. Then one night she said, 'Boom boom, I'm gonna shoot you down.' She gave me a song but she didn't know it. It dawned on me that that was a good name for a song. I'd always be late and whenever I'd come in she'd point at me and say, 'Boom Boom, you're late again.' And she kept saying that. Sometimes they'd be on the bandstand playing by the time I got there. Every night the band would beat me there. I would come in there at night and I'd never be on time. There was a young lady there named Luilla. Hooker told Bruce Pollock how the song originated: "I used to play at this place called the Apex Bar in Detroit. "Boom Boom" was the song that crossed over, marking his only entry on the US Hot 100 and becoming his signature song. By 1962, he was signed to Vee-Jay Records, who teamed him up with seasoned session players and tried to bring his music to a wider audience. In the '50s, he recorded under several different names ("Delta John" and "Birmingham Sam" among them) and refined his craft with constant live performances. John Lee Hooker first recorded in 1948, and the next year released his classic " Boogie Chillen," which eventually sold over a million copies.
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