The Most Recorded Song Writer of All Time

Willie Dixon is regarded by many in the know to be the most recoreded artist of all time...Here's some of his songs, and a few of the bands/musicians that have recorded his songs:

"29 Ways" - Marc Cohn, Willie Dixon, The Blues Band
"300 Pounds Of Joy" - Howlin' Wolf, Tom Jones and Jools Holland
"After Five Long Years" - Willie Dixon
"As Long as I Have You" - Led Zeppelin
"Back Door Man" - Howlin' Wolf, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Shadows of Knight, Bob Weir
"Big Boss Man" - Jimmy Reed, Elvis Presley, The Animals, The Grateful Dead
"Bring It on Home" - Sonny Boy Williamson II, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Dread Zeppelin, Johnny Thunders
"Built for Comfort" - Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat, UFO
"Crazy For My Baby" - Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite, Willie Dixon
"Crazy Love" - Buddy Guy
"Crazy Mixed Up World" - Little Walter
"Close to You" - Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doors
"Dead Presidents" - Little Walter, The J. Geils Band
"Diddy Wah Diddy" - Bo Diddley, Captain Beefheart, The Blues Band
"Do Me Right" - Lowell Fulson
"Do the Do" - Howlin' Wolf
"Don't Go No Farther" - Muddy Waters
"Don't Tell Me Nothin´" - Willie Dixon - used in the movie The Color of Money
"Down in the Bottom" - Howlin' Wolf, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
"Earthquake and Hurricane" - Willie Dixon
"Eternity" - Grateful Dead
"Everybody Needs Something" - Little Walter
"Everything But You" - Jimmy Witherspoon
"Everything's Got a Time" - Willie Dixon
"Evil" - Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Monster Magnet, Derek and the Dominos, Gary Moore, Cactus, The Faces, Steve Miller, Koko Taylor
"Flamin' Mamie" - Willie Dixon
"Help Me" - Sonny Boy Williamson II
"Grave Digger Blues" - Willie Dixon
"Groanin' the Blues" - Willie Dixon, Eric Clapton
"Hidden Charms" - Howlin' Wolf, Link Wray
"Hoochie Coochie Man" - Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Shadows of Knight, Eric Burdon, The Nashville Teens, Dion, The Allman Brothers Band, Alexis Korner, Steppenwolf, Chuck Berry, Motörhead, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Healey, Manfred Mann
"Howlin' For My Baby" - Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood
"I Ain't Superstitious" - Howlin' Wolf, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, Megadeth, The Jeff Beck Group, Chris Spedding
"I Can't Quit You Baby" - Little Milton, Otis Rush, Willie Dixon, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore, Dread Zeppelin, Nine Below Zero
"I Can't Understand" - Los Lobos (co-written with Cesar Rojas)
"I Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" - Willie Dixon
"If the Sea Was Whiskey" - Chris Thile
"I Got What It Takes" - Koko Taylor
"I Just Want To Make Love To You" - Muddy Waters, The Animals, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Shadows of Knight, Mungo Jerry, Grateful Dead, Foghat, The Rolling Stones, Etta James, Van Morrison, Paul Rodgers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, April Wine, Robben Ford, Meat Puppets, Cold Sweat
"I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love" - Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson
"I'm Ready" - Muddy Waters, Humble Pie, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, Long John Baldry, Eric Burdon, George Thorogood, Albert King
"Insane Asylum" - Koko Taylor, Kathy McDonald and Sly Stone, Diamanda Galás, Asylum Street Spankers, The Detroit Cobras, Oxbow feat, Marianne Faithful
"I Don't Play" - Robben Ford
"I Got My Brand on You" - Muddy Waters
"It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" - Styx
"I Want To Be Loved" - Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones
"Let Me Love You Baby" - Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters, B. B. King
"Little Baby" - Howlin' Wolf, The Rolling Stones
"Little Red Rooster" - Howlin' Wolf, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Luther Allison, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Mama Thornton, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Love, Life & Money" - Johnny Winter
"Mellow Down Easy" - Little Walter & His Jukes, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Black Crowes, Carey Bell, ZZ Top, Jimmy Reed, Holly Golightly
"Million Dollar Baby" - Dizzy Gillespie
"My Babe" - Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Spencer Davis Group, John P. Hammond, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fire and Drum Band
"My Baby's Sweeter" - Little Walter, Fleetwood Mac
"My Captain" - Muddy Waters
"My John the Conqueror Root" - Muddy Waters
"Nervous" - Willie Dixon
"Oh Baby" - Little Walter
"One More Chance With You" - Little Walter
"Pain In My Heart" - Willie Dixon, The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Grateful Dead
"Pie in the Sky" - Willie Dixon
"Pretty Thing" - Bo Diddley, Pretty Things, Canned Heat
"Seventh Son" - Willie Mabon, Mose Allison, Bill Haley, Johnny Rivers, Sting, Climax Blues Band, Long John Baldry
"Sin And City" - Buddy Guy
"Shake For Me" - Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughan
"Sit and Cry (The Blues)" - Buddy Guy (co-written with Buddy Guy)
"Spoonful" - Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Dion, Paul Butterfield, Cream, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Ten Years After, The Who, Etta James, Salty Dog
"Study War No More" - Willie Dixon
"The Same Thing" - Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, George Thorogood, The Allman Brothers Band, Sue Foley, The Band, Marc Ford, Grateful Dead
"The Seventh Son" - Willie Dixon
"Study No More" - Willie Dixon
"Third Degree" - Eddie Boyd, Willie Dixon, Eric Clapton, Leslie West
"Tollin' Bells" - Lowell Fulson, Savoy Brown Blues Band, Robert Cray
"Too Late" - Little Milton, Little Walter
"Too Many Cooks" - Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Mick Jagger
"Violent Love" - Otis Rush, The Big Three, Oingo Boingo, Dr. Feelgood
"Walkin' The Blues" - Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, John Kay
"Wang Dang Doodle" - Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, Grateful Dead, Savoy Brown, Box Tops, PJ Harvey, Rufus Thomas, The Pointer Sisters, The Blues Band, Widespread Panic
"Weak Brain, Narrow Mind" - Willie Dixon, Widespread Panic
"When My Left Eye Jumps" - Buddy Guy
"When The Lights Go Out" - Jimmy Witherspoon, Kim Wilson
"Who" - Little Walter
"Wigglin' Worm" - Willie Dixon
"You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At Its Cover" - Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Cactus, The Yardbirds, Beat Farmers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tim Hardin, The Merseybeats, Elliott Murphy, Long John Baldry, The Monkees, Eric Clapton, Roy Buchanan.
"You Don't Love Me" - Booker T. & the M.G.s, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills
"You Know My Love" - Otis Rush, Gary Moore
"You'll Be Mine" - Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. Feelgood
"You Need Love" - Muddy Waters
"Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin, based on Dixon's "You Need Love." Dixon and his music publisher received credit and royalties, after a 1985 lawsuit was settled out of court.
"You Shook Me"- Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin, Dread Zeppelin
"Young Fashioned Ways" - Muddy Waters