Hard to Handle

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writer:	Allen Jones (producer/songwriter/musician/engineer) Alvertis Isbell Otis Redding

publisher:	Carlin Music Corporation (in 1968) Irving Music, Inc. (in 1968)

SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/work/5426 [info]
Wikidata:	Q16841151 [info]

later parody versions:	Guard Your Candle
later versions:	Otis (Eddy Mitchell song)

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	recordings
1969-04-05	Hard to Handle (live, 1969-04-05: Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1969-04-17	Hard to Handle (live, 1969-04-17: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	7:18
1969-05-23	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	5:47
1969-05-23	Hard to Handle (live at Big Rock Pow Wow Music Festival, Seminole Indian Village, West Hollywood, Florida, May 23)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	5:46
1969-05-31	Hard to Handle (live, 1969‐05‐31: McArthur Court, Eugene, OR, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1969-06-05	Hard to Handle (live, 1969‐06‐05: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1969-11-07	Hard to Handle (live, 1969-11-07: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1969-12-12	Hard to Handle (live, 1969-12-12: Thelma Theater, West Hollywood, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	4:40
1969-12-13	Hard to Handle (live, 1969‐12‐13: Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1969-12-19	Hard to Handle (live, 1969-12-19: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1969-12-20	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	5:11
1969-12-26	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	4:57
1969-12-26	Hard to Handle (Dallas, 12/26/69)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	4:54
1969-12-28	Hard to Handle (live, 1969‐12‐28: International Speedway, Hollywood, FL, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1969-12-31	Hard to Handle (live, 1969‐12‐31: Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1969-12-31	Hard to Handle (live, 1969‐12‐31: Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1969	Hard to Handle (live, 1969: The Flamingo Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV, USA)	cover and live	Tom Jones	2:28
1970-01-02	Hard to Handle (live, 1970-01-02: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	5:02
1970-01-02	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐01‐02, early show: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-01-03	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐01‐03, early show: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-01-23	Hard to Handle (live, 1970-01-23: Honolulu Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, HI, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	5:41
1970-01-23	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐01‐23: Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, HI, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	5:42
1970-01-30	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐01‐30: The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-01-31	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐01‐31, acoustic set: The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-01-31	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐01‐31: The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-01-31	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐01‐31, electric set: The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-02-02	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	5:39
1970-02-04	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	6:44
1970-02-04	Hard to Handle	cover and live	The Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-02-12	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-02-13	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐02‐13, early show: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-02-13	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐02‐13: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	6:44
1970-02-13	Hard to Handle (live, 1970-02-13: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-02-13 – 1970-02-14	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	6:15
1970-02-14	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	6:30
1970-02-14	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	6:16
1970-02-14	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐02‐14, late show: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-02-14	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐02‐14: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	13:31
1970-04-15	Hard to Handle (live, 1970-04-15 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	4:05
1970-05-15	Hard to Handle (live, 1970-05-15: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	5:51
1970-05-15	Hard to Handle (live at The Filmore East, New York City, NY, 5/15/70)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	5:51
1970-05-24	Hard to Handle (live, 1970-05-24: Lower Finney Green Farm, Newcastle-under-Lyme, England)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	6:22
1970-10-23	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐10‐23: McDonough Arena, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1970-11-16	Hard to Handle (live, 1970‐11‐16: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	8:07
1971-02-18	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐02‐18: Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	8:00
1971-02-18	Hard to Handle (live, 1971-02-18: Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	9:15
1971-02-20	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐02‐20: Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1971-03-20	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐03‐20: Iowa Field House, Iowa City, IA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1971-03-24	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐03‐24: Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1971-04-10	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐04‐10: Mayser Gymnasium, Lancaster, PA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1971-04-13	Hard to Handle	cover	Grateful Dead	9:10
1971-04-21	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐04‐21: Rhode Island Auditorium, Providence, RI, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1971-04-26	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐04‐26: Fillmore East, New York City, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	14:37
1971-04-27	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐04‐27: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1971-04-28	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐04‐28: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	9:51
1971-04-29	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	9:58
1971-04-29	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐04‐29: Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1971-07-02	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐07‐02: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	?:??
1971-07-02	Hard to Handle (live, 1971-07-02: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	8:18
1971-07-31	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	7:53
1971-07-31	Hard to Handle (live at The Yale Bowl July 31, 1971)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	7:54
1971-08-06	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	8:20
1971-08-06	Hard to Handle (live, 1971‐08‐06: Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	7:35
1971-08-06	Hard to Handle	cover and live	Grateful Dead	7:35
1971-08-07	Hard to Handle (live, 1971-08-07: Community Concourse, San Diego, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	8:45
1982-12-31	Hard to Handle (live, 1982‐12‐31: Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, CA, USA)	cover and live	Grateful Dead	5:45
1984-03-03	Hard To Handle	cover and live	The Radiators	4:58
1985-02-16	Hard to Handle >	cover and live	The Radiators	6:31
1990-12-22	Hard to Handle (live Atlanta, December 1990)	cover and live	The Black Crowes	3:30
1990-12-22	Hard to Handle (live Atlanta, December 1990)	live	The Black Crowes	3:30
1991-06-15	Hard to Handle (live, 1991-06-15: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA)	cover and live	The Black Crowes	3:46
1991-10-13	Hard to Handle	cover and live	The Black Crowes	3:40
1991	Hard to Handle	live	The Black Crowes	3:46
1993-02-06	Hard to Handle (live, 1993-02-06: Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX, USA)	live	The Black Crowes	4:40
1995-01-13	Hard to Handle (live; 1995-01-13: The Howard Stern Show: The Trump Plaza, New York, NY, USA)	cover and live	Tom Jones with Spin Doctors & Uptown Horns	3:28
2000-12-09	Hard to Handle (live, 2000-12-09: The Basement, Sydney, Australia)	cover and live	Jimmy Barnes	3:37
2001-07-28	Hard to Handle (live, 2001-07-28: Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, Wales)	cover and live	Tom Jones	2:07
2001-10-30 – 2001-10-31	Hard to Handle	cover	The Black Crowes	3:27
2001-12-23	Hard to Handle (live, 2001-12-23: Coupe, Pančevo, Serbia)	cover and live	Cactus Jack	4:21
2001	Hard to Handle (live, 2001)	cover and live	The Black Crowes	3:30
2005-08-06	Hard to Handle	live	The Black Crowes	8:27
2007	Hard to Handle	cover	Guy Sebastian	2:53
2008-05	Hard to Handle (live, 2008-05: The Palms, Melbourne, VIC, AU)	cover and live	Guy Sebastian	3:03
2008-10-10	Hard to Handle	cover and live	The Black Crowes	3:43
2008-12-19	Hard to Handle	cover and live	The Black Crowes	9:54
2015-09-25	I Want You Back / Hard to Handle (live, 2015-09-25: Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, US)	cover, live and medley	NEEDTOBREATHE	4:42
2016-09-27	I Want You Back / Hard to Handle / Lay 'em Down (live, 2016-09-27: Charleston, SC, US)	cover, live and partial	NEEDTOBREATHE	4:03
2019-11-11	Hard to Handle (live, 2019-11-11: The Howard Stern Show: New York, NY, USA)	live	The Black Crowes	3:03
	Hard to Handle	live	The Black Crowes	3:46
	Hard to Handle	live	The Black Crowes	5:11
	Hard to Handle (part of “The Ultimix Medley Collection, Volume 4” DJ-mix)		The Black Crowes	?:??
	Hard to Handle	live	Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes	3:42
	Hard to Handle	live	The Black Crowes	3:46
	Hard to Handle		Otis Redding	2:19
	Hard to Handle	cover	Aubrey Mann	2:53
	Hard to Handle		The Black Crowes	3:07
	Hard to Handle		Gov’t Mule feat. Toots Hibbert	5:13
	Hard to Handle	cover	The Black Crowes	3:05
	Hard to Handle	cover	The Commitments	2:22
	Hard to Handle	cover	University of Rochester Yellowjackets	2:41
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