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Thread #83749   Message #1543637
Posted By: Azizi
16-Aug-05 - 10:11 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Little Sally Walker Other versions
Subject: RE: Origins: Little Sally Walker Other versions
Q's comments about "C.C. Rider" interested me because I recall reading somewhere that "C.C. Rider" meant "Circuit Court rider" which doesn't help much since I wasn't sure what "circuit court" meant. But apparently this isn't a correct definition for "C.C. Rider" anyway.

See this Answers.com definition of "Easy Rider" that also includes a reference for "C. C. Rider":

"In the early 20th century African American communities with conservative Baptist outlooks the term [C.C. Rider]came to mean a woman who had liberal sexual views, had been married more than once, or someone skilled at sex. The term appears in numerous blues lyrics of the 1920s and many popular early folk-blues tunes had "See see rider" or "C.C. rider" in its title. Confusion over the term or origin as it relates to music has it refer to the back and forth or see-saw rhythm sung by the southern railroad workers a majority of whom were from the south, were segregated, and sung songs in rhythm to the pounding action of their sledgehammers as they laid rail, and to the two-man see-saw piston driven caboose used during that time, another explanation has the term "see see" as a lyrical variation on the term "easy", but there is no denying the fact that the railroad is where Rhythm & Blues music originated. Early uses of the term include the 1924 jazz recording by Johnny Bayersdorffer's Jazzola Novelty Orchestra entitled "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Riding Now"....

Although the term is similiar to the "See See Rider Blues" song recored by Ma Rainey in 1925, the song and others like it used the loneliness of a rider of the rails or wanderer as a theme in their music, it is coincidence that the Easy Rider movie had wandering motorcyle riders as its characters, and due to the notoriety of the movie the term again acquired another meaning to fit into the cultural morés of the time to mean a good, usually Harley Davidson motorcycle."

MORE HERE

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See also information about "See See Rider"
in Harry's Blues Lyrics Online