Origins: All Night Long / Richmond Blues

Subject: RE: Origins: All Night Long / Richmond Blues
From: jody
Date: 11 Jul 25 - 04:34 PM

I just recorded All Night Long Blues, aka Richmond Blues.
Performed by Jody Kruskal as part of his SLOW IS MORE research project. Solo G/D Anglo concertina based on the 1928 recording by Foster & Rutherford. Listen here. https://youtu.be/3yWpfF_ry5M?si=2MCH4uXdnSQRbuEZ https://youtu.be/3yWpfF_ry5M?si=2MCH4uXdnSQRbuEZ

Subject: RE: Origins: Source of Song in DT - All Night Long
From: GUEST,Richie
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 07:18 AM

Thanks Joe,

I first learned this as The Richmond Blues.

Seems like DP added on a verse to a standard version like the one Joe Hickerson sang.

Richie

Subject: ADD Version: All Night Long
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 05:04 AM

The song is on a CD I bought from Joe Hickerson: The Folksmiths Traveling Folk Workshop - We've Got Some Singing to Do (1958) - Joe was part of the group, which often used this song to conclude their performances. The song was introduced to folk singing circles by Barry Kornfeld and Tony Saletan. Kornfeld got it from Roy Berkeley of New York, who apparently got it from an old hillbilly record.

Here are the lyrics they sing.

ALL NIGHT LONG

[CHORUS]
(Singing) All night long, all night long,
All night long, from midnight on. [twice]

Went down to the station (down to the station)
Ready to go (ready to go)
If the train don't come (if the train don't come)
Something's wrong down the road
(something's wrong down the road)
[CHORUS]

If I live
And don't get killed
I'll make my home
In Louisville
In Louisville, in Louisville
That's if I live and don't get killed
[CHORUS]

If anyone asks you
Who made this song
Tell 'em it was me
And I'll sing it all night long
[CHORUS]

Subject: RE: Source of Song in DT - All Night Long
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 04:51 AM

http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex/a02.htm has a list of recordings:

All Night Long [Blues] [Me II-AB10]

Rt - Tupelo Blues ; Oh My Lawd
At - Charmin' Bessie
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Songs for Pickin' and Singin', Gold Medal Books, sof (1962), p 34
Sing Out! Reprints, Sing Out, Sof (196?), 1, p23
Blizard, Ralph; & John Lilly. Blue Highway, Blizard BH4591, Cas (1991), trk# 8 (Richmond Blues)
Burnett and Rutherford. Mountain Songs, County 504, LP (196?), trk# A.05 [1927/11/03]
Bursen, Howard (Howie). Building Boom, Flying Fish FF 441, LP (1988), trk# A.01 (Richmond Blues)
Fly By Night String Band. Fly By Night String Band, Fretless 146, LP (1980), trk# B.02 (Richmond Blues)
Foghorn Stringband. Old-Time Portland Potluck, Bubbaguitar, CD (2005), trk# 1b
Folksmiths. We've Got Some Singing to Do, Folkways FA 2407, LP (1958), trk# B.09
Howard, Clint; and Fred Price. Old-Time Music at Clarence Ashley's. Part 1, Folkways FA 2355, LP (1961), trk# 5 [1962ca] (Richmond Blues)
Hurt, Mississippi John. Mississippi John Hurt, Last Sessions, Vanguard VSD 79327, LP (1972), trk# 14
James, Skip. Grossman, Stefan; Stephen Calt, Hal Grossman / Country Blues Songb, Oak, Sof (1973), p 96
Johnson, Earl; and his Clodhoppers. Southern Dance Music, Vol. 2, Old-Timey LP 101, LP (1965), trk# 2 [1927/10/07]
New Lost City Ramblers. Cohen, John, Mike Seeger & Hally Wood / Old Time String Band Songbook, Oak, Sof (1976/1964), p172 (Baby, All Night Long)
Perry County Music Makers. Going Back to Tennessee, Davis Unlimited DU 33024, LP (1974), trk# A.04
Pratcher, Miles and Bob. Southern Journey. Vol. 3: 61 Highway Mississippi, Rounder 1703, CD (1997), trk# 22 [1959/09/21] (If It's All Night Long)
Pratcher, Miles and Bob. Sounds of the South, Atlantic 7-82496-2, CD( (1993), trk# 2.04 [1959/07ca]
Rossbach, John. From the Mountains to the Mills, Chestnut CRCD 103, CD (2002), trk# 6 (Richmond Blues)
Rutherford and Foster. Fiddle Band Music from Kentucky, Vol.1, Wink the Other Eye, MorningStar 45003, LP (1980), trk# A.04 [1929/04/11] (Richmond Blues)
Stanley, Roba. Banjo Pickin' Girl, Rounder 1029, LP (1978), trk# A.03 [1924/12ca]
Tobacco Tags. Songs of the Tobacco Tags, Vol. 1, Old Homestead OHCS 156, LP (1984), trk# 7 (Good Gal Remember Me)
All Night Reel

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I gather it was also recorded by Charley Patton.

Subject: RE: Source of Song in DT - All Night Long
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Nov 06 - 04:32 AM

For the sake of discussion, here are the DT lyrics. Some of the verses are familiar because I've heard them in other songs, but I don't recognize this song at all. The song came from somebody with the initials "DP," and was added to the DT in April 1997.
This site (click) make me thing it may be the "All Night Long Blues" by Burnett and Rutherford, 1927.
-Joe-


ALL NIGHT LONG

All night long, all night long
All night long, from midnight on

Down in the depot (down in the depot)
Ready to go (ready to go)
If the train don't come (if the train don't come)
Something's wrong down the road
(something's wrong down the road)

If I live
And don't get killed
I'll make my home
In Louisville

In Louisville, in Louisville
If I live and don't get killed

I'd rather be dead
And in my grave
Than in this old town
Treated this way

If anyone asks you
Who wrote this song
Tell 'em it was me
And I'll sing it all night long

@blues
filename[ ALLNTLNG
DP
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Subject: Source of Song Lyrics in DT
From: GUEST,Richie
Date: 10 Nov 06 - 11:31 PM

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knew who sang the lyrics to the song, ALL NIGHT LONG, that's in the DT.

Thanks,

Richie