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12-stringer 12-bar blues on record before 1921 (32) RE: 12-bar blues on record before 1921 10 May 16


What about "All Night Long"? Obviously it's been Tin Pan Alleyed, but its publication history goes back to at least 1891 ("Ain't Dat a Shame, Bill Bailey" by Queen and Wilson, "as sung with great success by Tascot, the White Coon"). Uncle Dave cut this as "Ain't It a Shame to Keep Your Honey Out in the Rain," 1926, with the usual Macon liberties, and John McGhee did a gtr/hca recording for Gennett in 1928 ("Bill Bailey, Ain't That a Shame," credited on Champion as "John Hutchens").

Sheldon Brooks lifted the melody for his 1911 hit, "All Night Long." For a pop recording by Ada Jones and Billy Murray, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE0h65gORhI

The melody is undoubtedly of folk origin and has been used repeatedly, at least in hillbilly music. All the 1920s-1940s recordings of "All Night Long" that I'm familiar with are parodies, though Frank Hutchison and Roy Acuff start theirs off with a verse from Sheldon Brooks; Acuff's goes on to not quite Bang Boys territory -- had he gotten there, he could have greeted the Turner Bros in 1947. The tune also carries "Boll Weevil Blues," "Battleship of Maine," A P Carter's "My Clinch Mountain Home," and Oscar Ford's "Married Life Blues," among others. It was always my own blues-ish go-to for improvised topical and smutty songs.


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