John Lee Hooker Van Morrison I Cover The Waterfront

This song is performed by John Lee Hooker and Van Morrison appears on the Album Together (1989) I Cover the Watefront is a 1933 popular song and jazz standard composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman. The song was inspired by Max Miller s 1932 bestselling novel I Cover the Waterfront. The song became instantly popular, and many artists covered it in 1933: Annette Hanshaw, Abe Lyman s California Ambassador Hotel Orchestra, Billie Holiday, Connie Boswell, and Louis Armstrong, among other