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3	''Moanin' in the Moonlight'' is the 1959 debut album by Music/HowlinWolf. His most [[SignatureSong famous songs]], "Moanin' at Midnight", "How Many More Years?", "Smokestack Lightnin'" and "Evil" are all present here.
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5	In 1999, his SignatureSong "Smokestack Lightnin'" received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award; ten years later, it was added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry for being "historically, culturally and aesthetically important".
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7	[[AC:Side One]]
8	# "Moanin' at Midnight" (2:58)
9	# "How Many More Years" (2:42)
10	# "Smokestack Lightnin'" (3:07)
11	# "Baby How Long?" (2:56)
12	# "No Place to Go" (2:59)
13	# "All Night Boogie" (2:12)
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15	[[AC:Side Two]]
16	# "Evil" (2:55)
17	# "I'm Leavin' You" (3:01)
18	# "Moanin' for My Baby" (2:47)
19	# "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)" (2:53)
20	# "Forty-Four" (2:51)
21	# "Somebody in My Home" (2:27)
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23	! '''''Tropin' at Midnight''''':
24	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''M'''oanin' at '''M'''idnight"
25	* AnimalMotifs: A wolf howling at the moon is seen on the cover.
26	* BreakupSong:
27	** "How Many More Years?"
28	--->''How many more years?\
29	Have I got to let you dog me around\
30	How many more years?\
31	Oh, I got to let you dog me around\
32	I'd soon rather be dead\
33	Sleeping six feet in the ground''
34	** "I'm Leavin' You"
35	--->''Woman, I got to put you down\
36	Well, if you can't treat me right\
37	Ain't no use of me hangin' around''
38	* CoverVersion: "Evil" and "Forty-Four" are covers, respectively by Willie Dixon and Roosevelt Sykes.
39	* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Smokestack Lightnin'" was inspired by the smokestack sparks that came out of the trains going by.
40	* NonAppearingTitle: The song "Moanin' at Midnight" comes close.
41	* OneWordTitle: "Evil".
42	* QuestioningTitle: "How Many More Years?" and "Baby How Long?"
43	* RecordProducer: Willie Dixon, Music/SamPhillips, [[UsefulNotes/LeonardChess Leonard]] & Phil Chess.
44	* ShoutOut: "How Many More Times?" on Music/LedZeppelin's ''Music/LedZeppelin1969'' was inspired by Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Years?", but without giving him credit. The reissue has put this straight.
45	* SpecialGuest: Willie Johnson plays guitar, Ike Turner piano, Willie Dixon bass and Otis Spann piano.
46	* TrainSong: "Smokestack Lightning".

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