How Many More Years formed his own band in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1948, billing himself as "The Howlin' Wolf". He began broadcasting on radio station KWEM in West Memphis, and was heard by Sam Phillips who signed him for Memphis Recording Service. He recorded "How Many More Years" at the MRS studio at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, in or about July 1951, singing and playing harmonica with a band comprising (probably) Ike Turner (piano), Willie Johnson (guitar), and Willie Steele (drums). The repetitious bass-string boogie line resembles the one played in the traditional blues standard "Forty-Four". The record's original A-side, "Moanin' at
Return period interest and formula_5 is the counting rate. If the return period of occurrence is 1 in 234 years (formula_5 = 0.0043) then the probability of no occurrence in ten years is In a given period of "n" years, the probability of a given number "r" of events of a return period formula_5 is given by the binomial distribution as follows. In the limit of :formula_11, such that formula_12 then Take where Given that the return period of an event is 100 years, So the probability that such an event occurs "exactly once" in 10 successive years is: Return period is