24 Oct 00 - 12:15 PM (#326115) Subject: 'Sarah Jane' by Jazz Gillum From: Lepus Rex I heard this song, and it's prety damned funny. I think Gillum wrote it, but I can't find the lyrics anywhere. Hope someone knows this one. My sister's name is Sarah Jane, and I really want to annoy the Hell out of her... >:) Thanks... :) ---Lepus Rex (Say, this is the first thread that I've ever created...) |
24 Oct 00 - 08:51 PM (#326586) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Sarah Jane' by Jazz Gillum From: Stewie I have it. Parts of its first stanza turn up in versions of 'Hungry Hash House' [recorded versions of which I am currently trying to track for a proposed posting that seems to grow longer every day] and other old-timey songs in the white tradition. I do not have time to transcribe it at the moment, but I will do so later - hopefully later today. --Stewie. |
25 Oct 00 - 01:56 AM (#326752) Subject: Lyr Add: SARAH JANE (from Jazz Gillum) From: Stewie Here is Jazz Gillum's version. It is what Mark Humphrey has called 'hillbilly hokum', a genre which was popularised at the time by groups like the Prairie Ramblers and Patsy Montana on Chicago's WLS Barn Dance. It is thought that this and the second song that Gillum recorded in 1936 - 'I Want You By My Side' which is set to the tune of 'Careless Love' - could well have been in response to Eli Oberstein's [Victor A&R man]coaching him to play 'something appropriate for white audiences'. Whatever, Gillum didn't write it. Parts of the first verse were in a number of 1920s old-time pieces.
SARAH JANE
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25 Oct 00 - 02:09 AM (#326761) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Sarah Jane' by Jazz Gillum From: Lepus Rex Wow, thanks alot, Stewie! You've got the history and everything. I really appreciate it:) ---Lepus Rex |