Origin: Crazy about You (Broonzy? / Jazz Gillum)

Subject: 'Crazy About You' - Broonzy and?
From: Peter T.
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 04:06 PM

Can anyone tell me if "Crazy About You" is an original Broonzy song -- I have the 1935 recording with him and the State Street Boys -- wondering who else did it, and if anyone earlier?

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: 'Crazy About You' - Broonzy and?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 07:50 PM

Peter,

I've heard Little Walter do a "Crazy About You" don't know if it's the same one, haven't heard the Broonzy. It was in the fifties though.

Subject: RE: 'Crazy About You' - Broonzy and?
From: Stewie
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 08:11 PM

Peter

On the 'Essential' Broonzy [ Click Here ] it is attributed to Bill 'Jazz' Gillum for whom Broonzy played guitar on numerous recordings. It is not on any of the Gillum collections that I have and, from consulting Dixon & Godrich, Gillum would have recorded it after 1943 if he ever recorded it all.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: 'Crazy About You' - Broonzy and?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 08:18 PM

According to a nearly comprehensive discography, Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943, 4th ed. (Oxford), there's only one recording of "Crazy About You" (by State Street Boys) before 1943.
~Masato

Subject: RE: 'Crazy About You' - Broonzy and?
From: Peter T.
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 10:51 PM

Hmmm, must be original then, thanks to all. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: 'Crazy About You' - Broonzy and?
From: reggie miles
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 08:09 PM

Masato, can you look in that reference of yours for the author of the Halleluiah Boogie? I've been dyin' to get a copy of the lyrics but can't remember who recorded it.

Thanks much, Reg