What'd I Say

abandoning the old Union Avenue studio where Phillips had recorded B.B. King's Howlin' Wolf, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Lewis, John Cash, and others, and also opened a studio in Nashville.

At the latter studio, Lewis recorded his only major hit during this period, a rendition of Ray Charles' What'd I Say in 1961.

One major success during the next few years was the concert album Live at the Star Club Hamburg, recorded with the Nashville Teens in 1964, which is considered to be one of the greatest live albums ever.

Hey, maybe we ought to feature the Howlin' Wolf.

And that's kind of what did it for me, set my heart.

Hearing that, and also 19, I think it's 1957, I heard Ray Charles' What I Say.

And after that, man, it was over.

It was over.