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16 Oct 97 - 10:53 AM (#14844) Subject: REQ: Your feets too big From: Wolfgang Hell I'm looking for the lyrics to this song. Perhaps not folk, I do not know. Wolfgang |
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16 Oct 97 - 12:38 PM (#14851) Subject: RE: REQ: Your feets too big From: Harald I know that one performed by the Beatles. Could be folk-originated at it´s original transcription, but I don´t know. Getting the lyrics will be hard, due to the very poor sound quality of that old Star-Club record. Harald |
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16 Oct 97 - 02:36 PM (#14854) Subject: RE: REQ: Your feets too big From: Harald Ok then. I found it on my Fats Waller record. So the original is a lot slower than the Beatles-version. But well, also Fats is hard to understand... Harald |
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16 Oct 97 - 03:10 PM (#14855) Subject: Lyr Add: YOUR FEET'S TOO BIG (from Fats Waller) From: Joe Offer Yeah, it'ds a hard one to transcribe. I found a reasonable transcription on a Dejanews search, which saved me a lot of work: YOUR FEET'S TOO BIG (Benson-Fisher), from a recording in 1939: (spoken over piano intro:) Who's that walkin' around here? Mercy! Sounds like baby patter... baby elephant patter, that's what I calls it... Say up in Harlem at a table for two There were four of us: me, your big feet and you From your ankle up, I'll say you sure are sweet From that down there's just too much feet Yes your feet's too big Don't want you cause your feet's too big Can't use you cause your feet's too big I really hate you cause your feet's too big (two scat lines here with "where'd you get 'em?" interjected) Your girl she likes you, she thinks you're nice Got what takes to be in paradise She says she likes your face, she likes your rig Man oh man them things are too big Oh your feet's too big Don't want you cause your feet's too big Mad at you cause your feet's too big I hate you cause your feet's too big Oh your pedal extremities are colossal To me you look just like a fossil You got me walkin', talkin', and squawkin' Cause your feet's too big (spoken at end of song:) Yo, your pedal extremities really are obnoxious... Hope that helps. -Joe Offer- |
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16 Oct 97 - 08:58 PM (#14876) Subject: RE: REQ: Your feets too big From: John Nolan Joe, I don't think that's "obnoxious," it's a sort of Brooklyn accent "enoimous." |
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16 Oct 97 - 09:55 PM (#14879) Subject: RE: REQ: Your feets too big From: Scott Swinney You can get a really fine version of this song on the soundtrack of "Ain't Misbehavin". It was a broadway production around 1979 (I think) that did a superb job of putting many of Fats Waller's best songs together. It was also available on video, so I'm sure you can find it somewhere. I used to have a cassette of it. I'm not sure if it ever came out on CD. You'll enjoy it...they perform it with all the humor it deserves. |
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20 Oct 97 - 07:14 AM (#14984) Subject: RE: REQ: Your feets too big From: Wolfgang Thanks all for helping; the version Joe has found is somewhat close to the one I heard (from a folkgroup). A good start to do the rest of the work myself. Thanks again Wolfgang |
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21 Oct 97 - 03:10 AM (#15019) Subject: RE: REQ: Your feets too big From: Joe Offer Waitaminit!!! Did somebody say there's a Beatles recording of this song? This I gotta hear. On what album? -Joe Offer- |
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21 Oct 97 - 05:02 AM (#15021) Subject: RE: REQ: Your feets too big From: Wolfgang Joe, you did a search job for me, so I do one for you: As I know now, the Beatles did it way back in 1962 in Hamburg, Germany. More information is here. The version you found for me was not so close as I had hoped (I know it from the a cappella group Wild Flowers). One of four verses and the chorus was close enough for me, but they had three totally different verses which still beat me. So if anyone knows another verse I'd be grateful. Wolfgang |
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13 Dec 04 - 06:31 PM (#1356039) Subject: RE: REQ: Your feets too big From: GUEST,adamwolters@hotmail.com It was also done by the ink spots with the first verse above as last verse but totally different lyrics apart from that. and its fab. just great. sorry no time to transcribe lyrics. |
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13 Dec 04 - 07:24 PM (#1356070) Subject: RE: REQ: Your feets too big From: wysiwyg Heard a number of folkies perform it in a set of mixed-genre old stuff. Lots of improvising on verses, either on the spot of in having created their own version. I think it's as if they are paying homage to Fats and sharing back what they think he might have liked-- jamming in their heads, back in time. No one "right" version. Like MJH had some interesting approaches to some of his own material-- tending to be done a little differently each time. Those creative types play hell with documenting what REALLY happened, eh? :~) ~Susan |
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13 Dec 04 - 08:17 PM (#1356103) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Your Feet's Too Big From: Jim Dixon You can hear Fats Waller's recording of YOUR FEET'S TOO BIG at The Red Hot Jazz Archive. It says it was recorded March 20, 1941, and it was written by Ada Benson and Fred Fisher. |
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13 Dec 04 - 09:01 PM (#1356131) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Your Feet's Too Big From: Arkie Don't know this one but I have access to "Don't Let Your Big Mouth Take You Where Your Feet Can't Walk You Out". |
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14 Dec 04 - 02:54 AM (#1356286) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Your Feet's Too Big From: GUEST Jim Lloyd does a fine version of this on his CD "Jim Lloyd and Friends." If you haven't heard Jim play and don't know the bunch of brilliant old-time musicians that he plays with (Jimmie Costa, Wayne Henderson, John Hollandsworth), you ought to grab a copy. Camsco has a couple or they did when I gave Dave a couple in October. Biglappy |
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14 Dec 04 - 03:55 AM (#1356337) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Your Feet's Too Big From: Splott Man There are more verses in the Fats Waller Song Book which I'll dig out. Splott man |
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14 Dec 04 - 10:49 AM (#1356633) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Your Feet's Too Big From: Cool Beans Fats Waller definitely says "obnoxious." And he concludes with the immortal words, "One never knows, do one?" |
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28 Apr 08 - 07:04 PM (#2328151) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Your Feet's Too Big From: Jim Dixon You can see and hear Fats Waller performing YOUR FEET'S TOO BIG at YouTube: Click to play. |