Lyr Req: Don't Try To Lay No Boogie-Woogie on ...

Subject: LYRIC REQUEST AND INFO
From:
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 05:39 PM

Hello! I dont know if you can help with this- I am trying to find song title and artist with song lyrics. "I was proceeding in a northerly direction when I heard a most curious sound" "They call it BOOGEE-WOOGEE" Above sung with heavy cockney English accent. Can anyone help me out??? thanks, rita

Subject: RE: LYRIC REQUEST AND INFO
From: DonMeixner
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 09:14 PM

Rita,

I'm sitting here with the name on the tip of my tongue. The performer is a British Blues Icon of the same stripe as John Mayall. I can even picture the album photo. A profile of a bearded gent in a cricket jacket, ascot, and a panama hat. He may even have a monocle in his eye.

" I was traveling north..... I heard an American Negro playing a music he call Boogee Woogee....."

RATS! I'll wake up in the middle of the night now with this answer.

Sorry.

Don

Subject: RE: LYRIC REQUEST AND INFO
From: Barbara
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 10:01 PM

Hi, Gang, check out this old thread and see if this is the song
http://www.deltablues.com/thread.CFM?threadID=7565
No words but some suggestions about singers, including Elton John and Rod Stewart, also first recorded by Baldry. Actually "Don't call it Boojie-Woojie" or "The King of R&R"
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: LYRIC REQUEST AND INFO
From: Bill Thomas
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 10:04 PM

Sounds like it might be "Don't try to lay no boogie-woogie on the King of Rock and Roll" The recording I heard had Long John Baldry starting off with a long, spoken story about getting called before a rural English judge of some sort and being accused of playing boojie-woojie music.

Subject: RE: LYRIC REQUEST AND INFO
From: DonMeixner
Date: 26 Mar 99 - 12:27 AM

THATS IT! Long John Baldry. I had the John part right in my memory but Baldry was lost.

Subject: RE: LYRIC REQUEST AND INFO
From:
Date: 14 May 05 - 08:54 PM

the artist is Long John Baldry. the line in the song is "don't lay no boogee woogee music on the king of rock and roll" most all of the early rock and rollers in england in the sixties performed with this man people like clapton page beck jeff beck that is and many more. i not sure but i believe he is still gigging.

Subject: RE: LYRIC REQUEST AND INFO
From: Peace
Date: 14 May 05 - 09:01 PM

"Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll"

Subject: Lyr Add: DON'T TRY TO LAY NO BOOGIE-WOOGIE ON ...
From: Peace
Date: 14 May 05 - 09:04 PM

The original version was done by Gator Creek, on their one and only album in 1970; I haven't been able to find any MP3's of this. It was covered by Crow on their album "Mosaic" (also on a 45 on the Amaret label) and by Long John Baldry on "It Ain't Easy".

Crow's version of the lyric was as follows:

Don't you tell me n-n-n-no lies woman 'cause all you know I've told
Don't sell me no alibi sister 'cause all you've got I've sold
You better leave that midnight sneakin' to the one who worked it out
I don't wanna hear no back talk speakin' go on and shut yer mouth
And everything's gonna work out tight if you act like you been told
So don't try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll.

Don't you feed me no TV dinners when you know I'm used to steak
I don't need no rank beginners when it's time to shake that shake
You better pull your Thing together, reach in and dust it out
And if ya feel that yer ass can't dig it then I guess you know the route
It ain't a matter of pork 'n beans gonna justify your soul
Just don't try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll.

You weren't alive when I started to drive, so don't put none on me
You didn't arrive 'til late '45 but your head's in '53.
You got what it takes to keep the heads a-spinnin' down by the old rim shack
And you come across just like a fool grinnin' in the back of a red Cadillac.
You can't come across the [inaudible] bridge until you pay the toll
So don't try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll.


That is from another discussion board located at

Prentiss Riddle: Music: Don't try to lay no boogie woogie

Google it if you wish.

Subject: RE: LYRIC REQUEST AND INFO
From: Peace
Date: 14 May 05 - 09:08 PM

Meant to say, "Google it if you wish to see the rest." Sorry 'bout that.

Subject: RE: Req: Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie...
From: John O'L
Date: 15 May 05 - 10:10 AM

"You can't come across the astral bridge until you've paid the toll"

Subject: RE: Req: Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie...
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 16 May 05 - 07:48 AM

The version with the narration is by Long John Baldry, guaranteed, Rita. He lives in Vancouver these days, is just getting over a bit of illness and will be touring again in September.

http://www.longjohnbaldry.com/

Barbara mentioned Rod Stewart and Elton John who actually co-produced the "It Ain't Easy" album.

Along with that "boogie-woogie" thing, you (and all youse bozos) absolutely owe it to yourselves to seek out his (& Kathi McDonald's) take on "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" (from the "Baldry's Out" album). Trust me on this.