Complete List Of The Jeff Beck Group Songs From A to Z

Feature Photo: Billboard, November 14, 1970, page 42, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Jeff Beck Group took shape in London in 1967 after Jeff Beck left the Yardbirds and began building a band around a heavier, more improvisational form of blues rock. The best-known early lineup featured Rod Stewart on vocals, Ronnie Wood on bass, Micky Waller on drums, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Their combination of Beck’s guitar attack, Stewart’s rasp, and Wood’s flexible bass playing helped establish a model for the hard rock that followed.

Truth was released in 1968 under Jeff Beck’s name, although it introduced the musicians who became known as the Jeff Beck Group. “Shapes of Things,” “Let Me Love You,” “Morning Dew,” “You Shook Me,” “Rock My Plimsoul,” “Blues Deluxe,” “I Ain’t Superstitious,” and “Beck’s Bolero” moved between amplified blues, folk material, and hard rock. The album reached number 15 on the American album chart.

The 2006 expanded edition of Truth added eight recordings. Two were alternate takes of album songs, while six represented three earlier Jeff Beck singles and their B-sides: “Hi Ho Silver Lining,” “Beck’s Bolero,” “Tallyman,” “Rock My Plimsoul,” “Love Is Blue,” and “I’ve Been Drinking.” Several of those recordings featured musicians who became part of the first Jeff Beck Group.

Beck-Ola followed in 1969 and was the first album formally credited to the Jeff Beck Group. Its original seven-song program included “All Shook Up,” “Spanish Boots,” “Girl from Mill Valley,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Plynth (Water Down the Drain),” “The Hangman’s Knee,” and “Rice Pudding.” A later expanded edition added “Sweet Little Angel,” “Throw Down a Line,” and early versions of “All Shook Up” and “Jailhouse Rock.”

The first lineup ended in 1969, with Stewart and Wood soon joining the Faces. Beck rebuilt the group after recovering from a serious car accident. Vocalist Bobby Tench, keyboardist Max Middleton, bassist Clive Chaman, and drummer Cozy Powell joined Beck for Rough and Ready in 1971. The seven-song album moved toward soul, funk, jazz, and rhythm and blues through “Got the Feeling,” “Situation,” “Short Business,” “Max’s Tune,” and “New Ways/Train Train.”

The same lineup recorded the self-titled Jeff Beck Group album in Memphis with producer Steve Cropper. Released in 1972 and commonly called the orange album, it included “Ice Cream Cakes,” “Going Down,” “I Can’t Give Back the Love I Feel for You,” “Highways,” “Definitely Maybe,” and “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You.” The band dissolved later that year, and Beck moved into Beck, Bogert & Appice before establishing the instrumental fusion direction of his later solo career.

Jeff Beck died in January 2023 at age 78 after contracting bacterial meningitis. His career ultimately brought eight Grammy Awards and two Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions, first with the Yardbirds and later as a solo artist.

Complete List Of The Jeff Beck Group Songs From A to Z

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“All Shook Up” – Beck-Ola (1969)
“All Shook Up (Early Version)” – Beck-Ola (Expanded Edition) (2006)
“Beck’s Bolero” – Truth (1968)
“Beck’s Bolero (Mono Single Version with Backwards Guitar)” – Truth (Expanded Edition) (2006)
“Blues Deluxe” – Truth (1968)
“Blues Deluxe (Take 1)” – Truth (Expanded Edition) (2006)
“Definitely Maybe” – Jeff Beck Group (1972)