<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It was a superb band with wonderful solos from Frankie Newton, Chu Berry and Jack Teagarden. The obligate were magnificent. Benny Goodman visited the studio and it is said that his clarinet can be detected on one track. Additionally, around about the time that this, Bessie’s last recording session, was being made for Columbia, Billie Holiday;s first was being recorded in this or a nearby studio.<div class="">Steve Voce<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Mar 2019, at 23:58, John Shillito <<a href="mailto:jnshillito@gmail.com" class="">jnshillito@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p class="gmail-tm5 gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;"><strong class=""><u class=""><span class="gmail-tm6" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Bessie Smith - Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer</span></u><span class="gmail-tm6" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana"> </span></strong></p><p class="gmail-tm5 gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;"><strong class=""><u class=""><span class="gmail-tm6" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana"></span></u></strong><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Songwriter is recorded as Wesley Wilson.</span><em class=""><span class="gmail-tm8" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana"> These are the lyrics - (as I heard and learned them many years ago...)</span></em></p><p class="gmail-tm5 gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt;text-indent:0pt" class="">Spoken intro:</span></p><p class="gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt;"><span class="gmail-tm9" style="font-family:Verdana">“Twenty-five cents? Ha! No, no, I wouldn't pay twenty-five cents to go in nowhere. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt;text-indent:0pt" class="">'Cause listen here…”</span></p><p class="gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt;"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt;text-indent:0pt" class="">Up in Harlem every Saturday night, when the high browns get together it's just too tight</span><br class=""></p><p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm10" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 200%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">They all congregate at an all night strut - and what they do is tut, tut, tut...</span></p><p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 200%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Old Hannah Brown from ‘cross the town gets full of corn and starts breaking 'em down<br class="">And at the break of day, you can hear old Hannah say....</span></p><p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 200%;"><span class="gmail-tm9" style="font-family:Verdana">Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer! Send me, Gate*, I don't care!</span></p><p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 200%;"><span class="gmail-tm9" style="font-family:Verdana">I feel just like I wanna clown. Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down</span></p><p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 200%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">He's gotta rhythm, yeah, when he stomps his feet, he sends me right off to sleep,<br class="">Check all your razors and your guns, we gonna be arrested when the wagon comes</span></p><p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 200%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">I wanna pigfoot and a bottle of beer! Send me 'cause I don't care, </span></p><p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 200%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Play me 'cause I don't care</span></p><p class="gmail-Normal gmail-tm11" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 200%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Trumpet solo....... (Frankie Newton?)</span></p><p class="gmail-tm12 gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer! Send me, Gate*, I don't care, </span></p><p class="gmail-tm12 gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">I feel just like I wanna clown. Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down</span></p><p class="gmail-tm12 gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">He's got rhythm, yeah, when he stomps his feet he sends me right off to sleep.</span></p><p class="gmail-tm12 gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Check all your razors and your guns. Do the shim-sham shimmy 'til the rising sun</span></p><p class="gmail-tm12 gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Give me a reeefer and a gang of gin. Play me 'cause I'm in my sin.</span></p><p class="gmail-tm12 gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">Play me 'cause I'm full of gin.</span></p><div style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;" class=""><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="gmail-tm12 gmail-Normal" style="margin: 1pt 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 3pt; line-height: 154%;"><span class="gmail-tm7" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana">*“Send me, Gate” sounds like a reference to Louis Armstrong, who accompanied Bessie on some earlier sessions, although I believe the trumpeter on the recording from which I’ve
transcribed the lyric was, I believe, Frankie Newton.</span></p></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Best regards, cheers and good wishes,</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"> John Shillito</span></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><i style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></i></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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