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Thread #29785 Message #1012275
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
03-Sep-03 - 06:02 PM
Thread Name: Bawdy music :-)
Subject: RE: Bawdy music :-)
Lucille Bogan ("Bessie Jackson") recorded the song in 1935, but it first came out 40 years later in "Copulatin' Blues," Stash Records ST-101. Pianist Walter Roland. The lyrics are given in Randolph and Legman, "Roll You in My Arms," 1992, Univ. Arkansas Press, No. 149, pp. 463-464. Texts also in Paul Oliver, Screening the Blues, 1968, p. 231, and elsewhere. Oliver calls it a 'stomp-down roller,' from a Bogan line in the 'keg woman' version. Oliver lists two 1935 pressings by Lucille Bogan, Perfect 0332 (All You Keg Women) and CBS (M) 63288, unissued test pressing.
Fragments that have been collected go back to the 1890s-early 1900s, according to Randolph-Legman.