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Thread #115230   Message #2466494
Posted By: Jim Dixon
15-Oct-08 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Are You Making Any Money (Herman Hupfeld)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Are You Making Any Money
ARE YOU MAKIN' ANY MONEY? Was written by Herman Hupfeld, who also wrote AS TIME GOES BY and several lesser-known songs.

RedHotJazz.com has the Paul Whiteman/Ramona [Davies] recording you transcribed, but alas, it doesn't have the Chuck Bullock one. In fact, it doesn't even have The Levee Loungers listed as a band. (It does have Chuck Bullock performing as a vocalist with several other bands, but that doesn't help.)

Allmusic.com lists a couple of albums that contain the Chuck Bullock version: "Great Depression: American Music in the '30s", 1993; and "Songs of the Depression: Boom, Bust & New Deal", 1999.

I listened to a sound sample, and the lyrics correspond closely to what you already posted.

The Online 78 rpm Discography Project says Bullock & the Levee Loungers recorded ARE YOU MAKIN' ANY MONEY on 09/16/33 and it was released on the Conqueror label, 8217.

Hey, I guess it's time we dusted off some of those depression-era songs. We may be needing them over the next few years.