"Work with Me, Annie" is a 12-bar blues song with words and music by Hank Ballard.
The melody was recycled again by the Midnighters for the song "Henry's Got Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More)".
[3] Hank Ballard had been a fan of "Sixty Minute Man" recorded by The Dominoes, a song so explicitly sexual that only a rhythm and blues label would take it.
[2] With its strong melody and distinctive rhythm, the song's structure anticipated the style of rock and roll and was flexible enough that later it could be used with entirely different words.
[4] The "Annie" lyrics were extremely sexually explicit for the period:[5] And the punchline: Hank Ballard's baritone and excited squeals backed by the group's 'ah-oom' were accompanied by a boogie piano, a driving electric guitar and a booming electric bass.