Here Comes the Man With the Jive – Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys Mellow Stuff – Lil Johnson - recorded on 29 June 1936, according to the video provider This version includes some lyrics omitted in the 1942 Benny Goodman arrangement.Īll the Jive is Gone – Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy – 1936 Lee and Barbour were married from 1943 to 1951. Nice solos on the breaks, first by Barbour on guitar, then by the piano player, whose name I don’t know. This Snader telescription seems to bear the copyright date 1952, but Wild Realm Reviews dates it 1951. Lil Green, featuring Big Bill Broonzy on guitar - “Why Don’t You Do Right” - recorded on 23 April 1941 issued on the 78 rpm single Bluebird B-8714, b/w “Love Me” “Weed Smoker’s Dream” lyric, transcribed by doc on 29 December 2015.“Kansas” Joe McCoy (guitar, vocals) and his brother “Papa” Charlie McCoy (guitar, mandolin) were from Mississippi Herb Morand (trumpet, vocals), John Lindsay (bass), and Odell Rand (clarinet) were from New Orleans Horace Malcolm (piano), Freddie Flynn (drums) and Pearlis Williams (drums) were from Chicago. None of the members of the band were actually from New York. Mayo Williams simply for the purpose of making records – perhaps the first group to be so created.
It’s not clear to me why Herb Morand is credited as co-songwriter of “Weed Smoker’s Dream,” but not of “Why Don’t You Do Right.”ĭespite their name, the Hamfats were based in Chicago, and were put together by record producer and entrepreneur J. In 1941, Lil Green and Big Bill Broonzy recorded a modified version of the song titled “Why Don’t You Do Right,” credited solely to Kansas Joe McCoy, with a radically altered lyric.
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The Harlem Hamfats - issued in 1936 on the single Vocalion V.1005, c/w “Let Your Linen Hang Low”* - The label gives the full title of the song as “Weed Smoker’s Dream (Why don’t you do now),” and credits the songwriting to “McCoy, Morand,” which would be Harlem Hamfats members Kansas Joe McCoy and Herb Morand. Weed Smoker’s Dream (Kansas Joe McCoy, Herb Morand) In a 1984 interview she said “I was and am a fan of Lil Green, a great old blues singer, and Lil recorded it. Peggy Lee often stated that Green’s recording was extremely influential to her music. The recording was an early jazz and blues hit. The new tune was titled “Why Don’t You Do Right?” and was recorded by Lil Green in 1941 (with guitar played by Big Bill Broonzy). McCoy later rewrote the song, refining the composition and changing the lyrics entirely.
The song was subtitled “Why Don’t You Do Now” on the original release. “Why Don’t You Do Right?” first appeared in 1936 as “The Weed Smoker’s Dream,” composed by McCoy and recorded by his band, the Harlem Hamfats.
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