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cnd Origins: Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy (12) RE: Lyr Add: If I Can (Keep Skillet Greasy) 20 Dec 22


Joe_F's version also matches very closely with the one I've listened to the most, from The Wanderers Three record We Sing Folk Songs (Dolton Records BLP-2021, released 1963), even down to the "goosy" phrase. A pop-folk group, they unsurprisingly do not mention their source for the song beyond "Arr. & Adpt. Harold Brown." The only minor differences: the alcohol verse comes first and flour verse second, and the replacement of whiskey and Suzie with brandy and Nancey. Plus the chorus "Good and drunk and goosy (x3) all the time [twice]".

Here's one of the best imitations of Macon's renowned banjo tossing and twirling I've come across - Leroy Troy - Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy

Hoot, the comment about a stove I assume was meant to apply via the skillet the idea that the kitchen was open. I don't think Q actually believed a skillet was a sort of stove, though some skillets do combine as sort of shallow a dutch oven.


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