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Thread #42268   Message #613343
Posted By: Stewie
19-Dec-01 - 07:44 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Kiss Me Quick and Go (Ga. Yellow Hammers)
Subject: RE: Help: Kiss Me Quick & Go - origin ?
The Buckley and Steele composition is printed in a more readable form here:

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The Georgia Yellow Hammer lyrics may be found Motoya's songbook:

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Les, in respect of your specific question, the only information I have is as follows (Dale is a devotee of GYH material and may be able to provide more). The Georgia Yellow Hammers recorded 'Kiss Me Quick' at a Victor session on 18 October 1928 [Vi V-40091]. Eight recordings were made at this session and, according to Gene Wiggins ('Hell Broke Loose in Gordon County Georgia' - Old Time Music #25, Summer 1977), Bud Landress was credited with the composition of all 8 titles albeit they included 'Big Ball in Memphis' and 'Old Hen Cackled' which was hiding under the title 'Warhorse Game'. Wiggins noted that 'Kiss Me Quick' has been traced back to an English broadside (but gives no details), and he also printed in his article a version from a Such songbook of the very late 1800s or early 1900s - more or less the Steele/Buckley lyrics. In the absence of other printed or recorded earlier versions, it seems Landress may have seized upon the refrain of the old song and refashioned the rest.

--Stewie.