Maybe a slight mistake on Bill Knowlin's part - the slimmer version doesn't contain the book (Mr Jelly Roll) and I think the additional material he means was...
OK thanks - yes I do have the music only version also. It looks as though the quality of the CDs on both versions of the full set is the same. I think this...
Hi, Ingemar, It's possible you would find the music and composer of that piece in the book "Gospel Pearls," which is what George Lewis used for his album of...
Hi, again, Ingemar, But I guess you already knew all of that, after my Google research a few minutes ago... But definitely check out "Gospel Pearls." Cheers, ...
Good Morning and Happy New Year to One and All. Scott, I noticed that the links to "K'nice and K'nifty" and to "Pianoflage" in the Roy Bargy page play the same...
Two weeks before he began recording Jelly Roll Morton, Lomax recorded twelve sides of W.C. Handy, speaking, singing and playing guitar (!). (L of C, May 9,...
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John: My copy of the Handy material was issued on an lp from DRG Records, SL 5192. It was copyrighted 1980 under license from A.S. Barnes and Co. The album...
Dear Stuart, It doesn't make much sense, but the nearest I can get to the words is: "but mama's gotta special young" My other theory is that it's some kind of...
Dear John Thanks for your kind offer of sending the transcription taken from the 'Band in a Box". I should be grateful if you would send me a copy via E-mail. ...
Did you mean recordings or recording dates? Did you know that Sam Morgan's recordings are some of only some thirty-odd recordings that were actually made in...
I've long been bewildered by this line myself and have always heard it as a non sequitur comment on the comparative merits of local Chinese restaurants...
Hi. Another Lilly of the Valley was recorded in Melbourne, Ausrtralia by Graham Bennett's Hot Sands Jazz Band, back in December, 1963. It's on an East Audio EP...
... How about Everybody's talking bout Sammy But Morgan's got the best of all ya. No, I'm not convinced. Have we no one who speaks Louisiana well enough to ...
Thank you, Howard. In the same song (Everybody's talkin' 'bout Sammy) does he also sing "He went all around in a NATURAL town, he couldn't find nobody for to...
"In and out the town" perhaps? Ron L ... From: RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com [mailto:RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert Greenwood Sent: Thursday,...
While on the subject of unintelligible lyrics, has anyone deciphered Gates Blues by Jimmy Wade and his Dixielanders, recorded October 10 1928? Much of the...
Thanks to Ron & Howard. I'm sure there's a web site somewhere dedicated to misheard lyrics, and I recall an article by Benny Green concerning the singer whose...
Dear Hugh As far as I can decipher the text, it's something like: She, she, the only one I love (twice) She, she, the only one I hug She for Texas, she for...
No, I think he sings a line that is also heard in one of Jimmie Rodgers' songs: "T for Texas, T for Tennessee" Then I hear him sing : "And T for (Tampa? or...
Robert: I don't know of a website that deciphers lyrics, but I do know of two rather old books that attempt to do so for blues lyrics. They are: "The Meaning...
To my ears, Rodgers sings "T for Thelma, who thinks . . etc Bob ... From: Robert Greenwood To: RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:49...
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Jan 6, 2007 4:21 am
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... I have 2 takes of "Gates Blues" with Jimmie Wade, Punch is on vocal. I also have a take recorded by Punch Miller and His Delegates of Pleasure,. recorded...
Hi all, Who is the truplet soloist in Fletcher Henderson's "Easy Money Blues" (1928)? Any info on this recording would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks! ...
Hi--the trumpets (I think you refer to) are listed as Rex Stewart and Bobby Stark. I'll confidently guess that the solo at the beginning is by Stewart, the...
... Walter C. Allen in Hendersonia (p.248) attributes all the solo trumpet to Stark. However, in his notes to the session, he says, "Panassié says all the ...
Thank you John and Howard! I also think that whoever is soloing first and last is not the same player as in the middle passage. Probably Stewart and Stark,...
Hello all, The website has been updated with 3 items of great historical interest to devotees of Jelly Roll Morton and J. Lawrence Cook. Genealogist Peter...
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