the song has been covered by many artists including george benson, james booker on his album "live from belle vue" (2015), lonnie mack on his album "glad i'm in the band" (1969), james brown on his album "say it loud - i'm black and i'm proud" (1969), and was the title track for albums by marva wright (2000), gary u.s. bonds (2009) and hugh laurie (2011).