The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121107   Message #2646712
Posted By: PoppaGator
02-Jun-09 - 02:39 PM
Thread Name: Paul Whiteman-King of Jazz?
Subject: RE: Paul Whiteman-King of Jazz?
"etc., there is more but I don't have Hurt's recording."

The MJH recording I have has exactly those three verses you quote, plus the "Buddy Bolden" final verse I quoted above. In between, he plays an instumental-only verse and another verse where he just sings fragments of the lyric.

I've also heard, elsewhere, the verse about hearing the "Judge say . . . take him away." Not always named Fogarty. This is a thoroughly folk-processed song!

Incidentally, "(guitar answers)" could be inserted, correctly, after the second line of each verse as well as the first.