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Thread #54940   Message #852800
Posted By: 12-stringer
23-Dec-02 - 06:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: How You Want Your Rollin' Done
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'How You Want Your Rollin' Done'
There's nothing wrong with Big Bill's own version, which predates Lasky's by about 3 years and also features a hot flatpick style ("How You Want It Done," mx 11611-2, 3/29/1932, NY, issued on Vo 1745 and various dimestore labels; reissue on one of the Yazoo LPs of early Broonzy -- don't remember which -- and on the Sony CD/cassette compilation String Dazzlers). I like his version of the doubled-up stanza better:

"You can put me in the alley, my gal she name is Sally,
You wake me up in the morning mamma [he pronounces it "mommer"], I still got that old habit ..."

This, along with "Skoodle Do Do", is my favorite of the early Broonzy sides.