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Thread #129133   Message #2896086
Posted By: GUEST,Ken Brock
28-Apr-10 - 01:48 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: How's Your Folks and My Folks (Down in..
Subject: Lyr Req: How's Your Folks and My Folks (Down in..
The song title is "How's Your Folks and My Folks (Down in Norfolk Town)"

I have a CD re-release (The Obscure and Neglected Chicagoans, iajrc label CD 1007) of this as an instrumental, recorded 1925 in Chicago as a demo. Does anyone know the words? I'm interested because of possible Norfolk, Va references, such as "the Church Street Five" in Gary U. S. Bonds' "A Quarter to Three".

Written by Dudley C. Mecum and Cal Devall. The recording I have is by "Dud Mecum's Wolverines" - a name applied at the time of the reissue, as the record was a 1925 demo, never issued at the time (Bix Biederbecke had previously been with these same Wolverines). There is a vocal recording by Art Gillham, who was the first to make an electrical recording.