"Rock Me Baby" is a blues standard that has become one of the most recorded blues songs of all time.It originated as "Rockin' and Rollin'", a 1951 song by Lil' Son Jackson,itself inspired by earlier blues. Renditions by Muddy Waters and B.B. King made the song well-known. When B.B. King's recording of "Rock Me Baby" was released in 1964, it became his first single to reach the Top 40 in Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart.