[Dixielandjazz] Re: Cake Walkin' Babies

[Don Kirkman]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:23:19 EST, Coastsidegiraffe at aol.com wrote:

>Sharing the answers:
>>From Bill Gunter:

>Never heard the lyrics that way before. I've always sung 'em this way:

>"Talk of the town, easin' around, they're pickin' 'em up and layin' 'em
>down!"

>Also, The Firehouse Fake Book, along with several other, have the lyrics
>like that.

>Bill "Dancin' Fool" Gunter
>jazzboard at hotmail.com

>>From Ron L.:
> Green and Brown were noted entertainers, I believe and probably champion
>Cake walk dancers.

"Doc Brown's Cake Walk" [Charles L. Johnson, 1899] and "Eli Green's Cake
Walk" [Sadie Koninsky, 1898, are both in Trebor Jay Tichenor's _Rag Time
Rarities_, ISBN 0-486-23157-7, Dover 1975.  Cake walks were a
significant part of the early ragtime corpus.
-- 
Don Kirkman