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Thread #144338   Message #3337104
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
12-Apr-12 - 04:48 AM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Willie Jean' origin
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Willie Jean' origin
Here's a post I made last night, then couldn't connect to Mudcat when I hit submit and not afterwards:


Earliest recording of a song of that name at LOC is from 1960: Indigo plying and singing his blues by Jimmy Drew.

Here's an ad for the LP for sale giving a date of 1962 Jimmy Drew - Indigo.

The next at LOC is Hoyt Axton Saturday's Child, which LOC dates as 1964?. There's an mp3 of the track in his discography for this record at Hoyt Axton's site.

Hoyt Axton is credited with the song in several places including this one Rod McDonald - Recognition, which if the lyrics posted threre are correct includes that verse Joe.

Mick