"Got My Mojo Working" is a blues song written by Preston "Red" Foster and first recorded by R&B singer Ann Cole in 1956.

Foster's lyrics describe several amulets or talismans, called mojo, which are associated with hoodoo, an early African-American folk-magic belief system.

Music publisher and executive Sol Rabinowitz described Foster as "one of the shyest human beings I've ever met", and a judge in the early 1970s described him as "a Black man, about forty years of age ... with bleached blonde hair and highly modish clothing [who] sat quietly in the courtroom.

I had asked her not to perform any unreleased songs on stage, to avoid just this problem ... Ann Cole ignored me and was singing Mo Jo all over the South with Muddy's band.

Music historian Larry Birnbaum states that the 1955 R&B hit "Hands Off", written by Jay McShann, which he recorded with singer Priscilla Bowman, was the "obvious basis" for "Got My Mojo Working".

[4] While Cole's version of "Got My Mojo Working" reflects more of a doo-wop style, Muddy Waters emphasizes a driving rhythm.

According to Waters: When you're writin' them songs that are coming from down that way [Mississippi Delta], you can't leave out somethin' about that mojo thing.

"Got My Mojo Working" was a feature of Muddy Waters' live performances over the years, with a popular version appearing on his At Newport 1960 album.

In disagreement with Plaintiff Stratchborneo's claim, the ruling held that the term "Mojo" was essentially in the public domain and that the various uses of it in recordings by Ann Cole, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Smith and Bill Cosby did not, therefore, constitute infringement: MOJO is a commonplace part of the rhetoric of the culture of a substantial portion of the American people.

EU 462214) and duly assigned to Dare, covering the words and music of "GOT MY MOJO WORKING," as set forth in a 1956 lead sheet filed in the Copyright Office and on the demonstration record, Ex.