I Just Want to Make Love to You is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in Chicago in 1954, released as the single Just Make Love to Me on Chess Records with Little Walter on harmonica and a notable lineup. It is a Chicago blues track about desire, running about 2 minutes 49 seconds, and it reached number four on Billboard's R&B chart; Waters later re recorded it for the 1968 album Electric Mud. The song has been widely covered, including Etta James who recorded it for her 1961 debut album At Last! and later had a UK single release in 1996 after a Diet Coke campaign, with lyric changes that alter the perspective. The Rolling Stones also cut it in 1964 as the B-side to Tell Me on their debut UK album The Rolling Stones. Blues rock group Foghat released it on their 1972 debut Foghat and a longer live version in 1977 that charted, and the tune has appeared in films such as Dazed and Confused and Halloween II.
