<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><div><br></div><div><p><br></p><p>see Jacques Covo's query below</p><p><br></p><p><br></p></div><div><p>It's quite possibly a folk tune and rather a transcription than a composition, and one favoured by barrelhouse pianists, such as the entirely unknown 1930s "Little David" -- who is not to be confused with another Dave Alexander of more recent vintage. There is a very nice solo piano performance by Doug Suggs, who came from St. Louis and I gather had a job at the Chicago White Sox stadium (Comiskey Park?) where Jimmy Yancey (hear him too) was a colleague. Lucille Bogan, wonderful blues singer who added edge to her voice by pitching slightly off-note, recorded an impressive version but also a very blue one, with Walter Roland playing staccato chords on piano, and joining in a vocal duet. The title is a metaphor for a body part one presumes was represented in Roland's trousers, where according to the words he and Ms. Bogan sang -- one presumes for recording engineers since the recording wasn't issued before the lyric was part of the topic of an essay by the late Paul Oliver entitled "The Blue Blues". Ms. Bogan's unofficial recording (retrieved I gather from archives, since the first issue was of a rough, presumably worn copy) begins with reference to parts of her own body with which any children she had might have been aquainted at feeding times (no spoons, no glassware). The deep blue performance has been on open access on YouTube. More sensitive auditors can find a cleaner version elsewhere. Of course the aptness of the tune title to Bechet might be indicated by reference to Johnny Chilton's note regarding what a helpful man Sidney Bechet was, asssiting a fellow American, female, with her quest for the perfect . . . <br></p><p><br></p><p>Oh, dear, I seem to have reached a word limit,</p><p>for that of which the flower was a metaphor <br></p><p><br></p><p>Maintain a clean mind! As for Ms. Bogan's reference on the private(?s) recording the comment regarding her bed-partner's want of bodily hygiene cannot be spelled out here,</p><p><br></p><p>where to the pure all things are pure,</p><p><br></p><p>Robert R. Calder<br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 2em; border-left:2px solid #00ADE5; white-space: pre-wrap "><br><br>------ Original Message ------<br>From: dixielandjazz-request@ml.islandnet.com<br>To: serapion@btinternet.com<br>Sent: Tuesday, 14 Dec, 21 At 17:00<br>Subject: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 228, Issue 1<br><br>Send Dixielandjazz mailing list submissions to<br>
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Hello to All,<br>
I have not been able to find on the Internet the name of the composer of this famous tune played by Sidney Bechet , Mary Lou Williams and many others.<br>
The tune seem to be linked to another tune called Sweet Patunia. <br>
Would somebody know who is the composer?<br>
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Regards <br>
Jacques Covo<br>
The Geneva Boogie & Blues 5tet <br>
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