[Dixielandjazz] "Rock" lyrics

[Harry Callaghan]

Bill:

I was just about to mention that I have the Jimmy Noone recording but it's
on an audio cassette and guess what?    No liner notes.  Do you know who the
vocalist was?

Thanx
Harry


On 6/24/10, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> Sue Fischer wrote:
> > Have you ever heard the blues tune "My Baby Rocks Me With One Steady
> Roll?"
> > It's from 1922, and the singer leaves no doubt about what "Rock" means!
> > (I suppose you could call it "comfort" of a sort.....)
>
> Dear Sue,
> May I suggest that this J Berni Barbour 1924-5 composition "My Daddy Rocks
> Me" really belongs more to jazz and popular music rather than the blues,
> given its recording history.
> Its first outing was the Okeh recording by Harold Ortli and His Ohio State
> Collegians in February 1925 (which I have) followed by the St Louis band
> Chas. Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs the next month.
>   http://redhotjazz.com/songs/misc/MyDaddyRocksMe.ram
> It was subsequently recorded by
> Hush O'Hare (1928)
>   http://redhotjazz.com/Songs/misc/Mydaddyrocksme2.ram
> the emotive Tampa Red Hokum Jug Band (1929)
>
> http://ia301532.us.archive.org/1/items/TampaRed-11-19/TampaRedsHokumJugBandVfrankieJackson-
> MyDaddyRocksMeWithOneSteadyRoll1929_64kb.mp3
> Jimmie Noone (1929)
>   http://redhotjazz.com/songs/noone/mydaddy.ram
> Trixie Smith (1938)
>   http://www.mainely-jazz.com/rhsongs/songframes.html
> then Benny Goodman (1940) and jazz revival bands from then on.
> Mae West added it to her repertoire in her later stage career.
> Very kind regards,
> Bill.
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