| Hands Off | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Jay McShann |
| B-Side: | Another Night |
| Released: | 1955 |
| Recorded: | 1955 |
| Genre: | R&B |
| Length: | 2:45 |
| Label: | Vee-Jay |
| Next Title: | I've Got News for You |
| Next Year: | 1956 |
"Hands Off" is a 1955 song written and recorded by Jay McShann. The single, on the Vee-Jay label, was the most successful Jay McShann release on the Billboard R&B chart. "Hands Off", with vocals performed by Priscilla Bowman, was number one on the R&B best seller chart for three weeks. The single is notable because this was the last single to hit number one on the R&B chart without making the Billboard pop charts until 1976. For the next twenty-one years, all singles which made the top spot on the Billboard R&B chart would make the pop charts.[1]
Preston Foster reworked "Hands Off" to create the 1956 song "Got My Mojo Working" popularised by Muddy Waters.
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