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==Songs== {{Main|List of songs written by Willie Dixon}} Dixon wrote or co-wrote more than 500 songs.{{sfn|Dixon|Snowden|1990|p=247}} Several have become [[blues standards]], including "[[Help Me (Sonny Boy Williamson II song)|Help Me]]", "[[Hoochie Coochie Man]]", "[[I Can't Quit You Baby]]", "[[I Ain't Superstitious]]" "[[I'm Ready (Muddy Waters song)|I'm Ready]]", "[[Little Red Rooster]]", "[[My Babe]]", and "[[Spoonful]]".<ref>{{harvnb|Herzhaft|1992|pp=436β478}}</ref> Other Dixon compositions that reached the record charts include "[[Evil (Howlin' Wolf song)|Evil]]" (Howlin' Wolf), "[[I Just Want to Make Love to You]]" (Muddy Waters), "[[Pretty Thing]]" (Bo Diddley), "[[The Seventh Son]]" ([[Willie Mabon]]), "[[Wang Dang Doodle]]" ([[Koko Taylor]]), and "[[You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover]]" (Bo Diddley).{{sfn|Whitburn|1988|pp=465β578}} In the 1960s, Dixon's songs were adapted by numerous rock artists.{{sfn|Dixon|Snowden|1990|loc=Appendix 2}}
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