 Years later, Bobby Womack said in an interview that he had told Sam Cooke he did not want the Rolling Stones to record their version of the song, and that he had told Mick Jagger to get his own song.Cooke convinced him to let the Rolling Stones record the song.Six months later on, after receiving the royalty check for the song, Womack told Cooke that Mick Jagger could have any song he wanted.