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Thread #85754 Message #1590848
Posted By: Stewie
25-Oct-05 - 09:51 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Down on the farm, half past four....
Subject: RE: Origins: Down on the farm, half past four....
With minor changes to what is posted above, John (Seven Foot Dilly) Dilleshaw recorded this as a talking blues under the title 'Farmer's Blues' in Atlanta on 24 March 1930 (Chris Bouchillon had created the 'talking blues' genre a few years earlier). Dilleshaw's recording was issued in November 1930 as Vocalion 5459. It has been reissued on 'John Dilleshaw: Complete Recorded Works' Document DOCD-8002.
I haven't heard it, but judging from the entry in Meade's 'Country Music Sources', the Dalhart piece mentioned above by Q is not related - rather, it is related to an 1889 song titled 'My Boyhood Happy Days'.