Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)

Subject: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 13 Feb 25 - 10:36 AM

Do you sing "Hot Nuts"?   Could you please post below your
version below Thanks!

Hot Nuts

Hot nuts hot nuts, get 'em from the peanut man,
Yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh, nuts, hot nuts
Get 'em any way you can.
(Refrain)

Got it in the kitchen, got it in the hall
Got it on my finger, so I wiped it on the wall-Nuts
Hot nuts, get them from the peanut man.... etc.

See that man dressed in brown,
He's got the biggest nuts in town--Nuts
Refrain

See that man dressed in black
He carries his nuts in a gunny sack--Nuts
Refrain

See that girl dressed in red
She makes her living lying in bed--Nuts
Refrain

See that girl dressed in pink
She's the one who make my finger stink---Nuts
Refrain

See that girl sitting on his lap,
Bang with her and you'll get the clap--Nuts
Refrain

See that girl over there in slacks
She shacks--Nuts
Refrain

See that man who walks like a duck
He can't dance but he sure can fuck.--Nuts
Refrain

See that girl dressed in blue
She can't dance but she sure can screw --Nuts
Refrain

See that girl dressed in green
She lost her quarter in the bathroom machine--Nuts
Refrain

See that cool guy named Harry
He's got nuts but he's still a fairy.--Nuts
Refrain

Got some in a Cadillac, got some in a Ford
But the best I got was on the running board--Nuts
Refrain

See that guy, He's a Phi Gam
He's got nuts but they ain't worth a damn--Nuts
Refrain

Now there is a girl named Pearl
She cracks so many nuts, they call her squirrel--Nuts
Refrain

There is a girl name Jill
She won't screw, but her sister will--Nuts
Refrain

Fraternity Songs by Judy Allred. 1963. pp.23-25.


See here: https://archive.org/details/1963-fraternity-songs-lacking-pg-20-judy-allred/page/n21/mode/2up


This song shares some of the same bawdy couplets (e.g., pink/stink)
found in Hey Loddy Loddy /Hey Lally Lally, Origins: Down in the Valley,
and It's a Lady in Red.

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 13 Feb 25 - 08:51 PM

The tune for the "Hot nuts hot nuts, get 'em from the peanut man" chorus
is the chorus of "Ja-Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing, Jing, Jing!)".

This tune is used with other bawdy songs: Sarah, Sarah, Sitting in a Shoe Shine Shop,
Matches & BVDs, and S-C-R-O-T-U-M.

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 18 Feb 25 - 08:29 AM

I'll try to keep my posts in chronological order. Some are just references for future research (or researchers).

Grandee (George) Hot nuts. 26862.

1931. Catalogue of Copyright Entries. Musical Compositions. p.1831


See here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalog_of_Copyright_Entries/ZS5jAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22hot%20nuts%22%20song&pg=PA1831&printsec=frontcover

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 18 Feb 25 - 08:30 AM

Hot nuts: words by King Zany, mel-
ody by G. Grandee. [Photostat] ©
1 c. Nov. 2, 1931. E unp. 47031;
George Grandee, Hollywood, Calif.
26862

See here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112003968770&seq=290&q1=%22hot+nuts%22

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 18 Feb 25 - 08:34 AM

Accession # 007.009.11038
Title: Hot Nuts
Composer: Issenhuth, Dale
Lyricist(s): Dudley, C. Ward; Vedders, Charles
Source Type: Stage
Source: Campus Capers
Date: 1933
Location: Box 65

Info from here: https://mpdsf.github.io/assets/johnson-collection-by-lyricist.html

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 18 Feb 25 - 08:41 AM

KELSEY'S
(Ben Smith)

Now momma said my darling
Go to the store for me
Get some eggs and butter
Some coffee and some tea
Drive the flivver slowly
Don't play into all the ruts
And stop at Kelsey's delicatessen
And get some salted nuts

Kelsey's nuts are sweetest
Sweetest nuts in town
Kelsey's nuts are neatest
When toasted crisp and brown
Some say there hot when they're cold.
But I don't say that they're not
Just try a couple of Kelsey's nuts
And try them while they're hot.

Say when Kelsey's nuts are cold
They're just like fridgeaire
Kelsey's nuts are like rat traps
They catch you unaware.
Duly examination to camels
Down to their butts (?)
And every night they say a prayer
For a couple of Kelsey's nuts.

Kelsey's nuts are sweetest
The sweetest nuts in town
Kelsey's nuts are neatest
When toasted crisp and brown
Some say there best when cold.
But I'll say they're not
Just try a couple of Kelsey's nuts
And try them while they're hot
What I mean.

September 12, 1933. Washboard Rhythm Kings. Vocal refrain by Ted
Tinsley. Matrix BS-77809, 78 record, recorded 9/12/1933. This was
also titled "Kelsey's Nuts" on the Bluebird label.

See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycwO-hO3xhg

Different song but same motif.

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 18 Feb 25 - 08:46 AM

HOT PEANUTS

Henry Lee, from Tennessee,
Was nothing but a business man
And at business he was grand;
He bought himself a peanut stand;
Henry Lee was every wise,
One of those guys that loves to advertise,
So when you'd pass him by,
You'd hear Henry cry:

Hot nuts, hot nuts,
Does anybody here want hot nuts?
Hot nuts, hot nuts,
I'm telling you, they're grand;
Go get them hot, the way you should,
'Cause we all know, cold nuts are no good,
Hot nuts, hot nuts,
Go get them from the peanut man.

Hot nut, hot nuts,
I'm telling you they're grand;
Go get them from the peanut man,
'Cause that's what makes the peanut stand.
You ask me why the whistle blew;
If you had hot nuts you'd whistle too;
Hot nuts, hot nuts,
Go get them from the peanut man.

c1933. The Wrecks. p.24. Inscription date of July 21, 1934 on
one copy of this book. So this is text is prior to that date.

See here: https://archive.org/details/1933ca-the-wrecks-red-plush-edition-50-copies/page/24/mode/1up?q=%22hot+nuts%22

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 19 Feb 25 - 07:32 PM

Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)
(Johnson)

Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
Anybody here wanna buy my nuts?
Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
I've got nuts for sale.

One for five, two for ten.
If you buy 'em once,
You'll buy 'em again.
Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
You buy 'em from the peanut man.

Nuts! Hot nuts!
Anybody here wanna buy my nuts?
Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
I've got nuts for sale.

They tell me your nuts is mighty fine,
But I bet your nuts isn't hot as mine.
Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
You buy 'em from the peanut man.

Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
Anybody here want to buy my nuts?
Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
I've got nuts for sale.

They tell me that man's nuts is mighty small.
Best to have small nuts than to have no nuts at all!
Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
You buy 'em from the peanut man.

Hot Nuts!
Peanuts!
Nuts, cheap!
Nuts!

Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
Anybody here wanna buy some nuts?
Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
I've got nuts for sale.

You see that man all dressed in brown?
He's got the hottest nuts in town!
Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
You buy 'em from the peanut man.

Nuts! Hot nuts!
Anybody here want to buy my nuts?
Selling Nuts! Hot nuts!
I've got nuts for sale.

When a hog get hungry,
He began to grunt.
When a man get hungry,
He began to hunt.
Hot nuts.
Hot nuts!
You buy 'em from the peanut man.

July 16, 1935. Lil Johnson. Champion. 50002 A. Decca matrix 90163.


Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPDCDtDCVM


Rarely reproduced, first take of Lil Johnson of Champion.
This take doesn't show up in the LP and CD reissues.

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 19 Feb 25 - 09:08 PM

"Get 'em from the Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)"
Lil Johnson

[piano and the sound of a stream whistle]

Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, anybody here want to buy my nuts?
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, I've got nuts for sale.
Sellin' one for five, two for ten,
If you buy 'em once, you'll buy 'em again.
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, you buy 'em from the peanut man.

Nuts, hot nuts, anybody here want to buy my nuts?
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, I've got nuts for sale.
You tell me your nuts is mighty fine,
But I bet your nuts isn't hot as mine.
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, you buy 'em from the peanut man.

Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, anybody here want to buy my nuts?
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, I've got nuts for sale.
And they tell me your nuts is mighty small,
Best to have small nuts than have no nuts at all;
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, you buy 'em from the peanut man.

[piano and the sound of a steam whistle]

Spoken: Look what you can get cheap! Only five cents, boys!
Nice and brown, too! Everybody's crazy 'bout my nuts!

Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, anybody here want to buy my nuts?
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, I've got nuts for sale.
Now you see that man all dressed in brown,
He's got the hottest nuts in town.
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, you buy 'em from the peanut man.

Nuts, hot nuts, anybody here want to buy my nuts?
Sellin' nuts, hot nuts, I've got nuts for sale.
When a hog get hungry, he starts to grunt,
When a man get hungry, he starts to hunt,
For nuts, hot nuts, you buy 'em from the peanut man, I say!
You buy 'em from the peanut man!

Feb. 12, 1936. Vocalion 03199. American Record Corp. studios, Chicago.

This is the recording that is found in modern LP & CD
compilations. It was was reproduced on the Kicks and Zest party
record labels in the 1940s / early 1950s.

See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3eeRt7Jrg

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 19 Feb 25 - 09:44 PM

Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (The New Hot Nuts)
Lil Johnson

Selling nuts! Hot nuts!
Anybody here wanna buy my nuts?
Selling nuts, hot nuts
I've got nuts for sale
Six for a quarter, ten for a half
You can have a dozen if you crack 'em fast
Selling nuts, hot nuts
Buy 'em from the peanut man

Peanuts! Hot nuts!
Anybody here wanna buy some nuts?
Selling nuts, hot nuts
I've got nuts for sale
These nuts I got they just won't sow
If you eat 'em once, you will eat some mo'
Selling nuts, hot nuts
Buy 'em from the peanut man

Nuts! Hot nuts!
Anybody here wanna buy my nuts?
Selling nuts, hot nuts
I've got nuts for sale
Now you see that man all dressed in black
His nuts is so hot he keep 'em in a sack
You've got nuts, hot nuts
Buy 'em from the peanut man

Spoken: Yes, come on and get your nuts!
It's good and hot!
I mean peanuts!

Hot nuts! Selling nuts!
Anybody here wanna buy my nuts?
Selling nuts, hot nuts
I've got nuts for sale
Me 'n' the hot-dog man had a scuffle on the ground
If you want my nuts don't have to throw me down
I've got nuts, hot nuts
Buy 'em from the peanut man

Peanuts! Hot nuts!
Anybody here wanna buy my nuts?
Selling nuts, hot nuts
I've got nuts for sale
When you see me standing on the corner so soon
Trying to get my nuts all sold before noon
I've go nuts, hot nuts
You buy 'em from the peanut man, I say
You buy 'em from the peanut man

March 4, 1936. Vocalion 03241. It seems this was
recorded as an alternate take in case the Feb. 12, 1936 recording
had to be withdrawn for being to risqué. Date provided
is the recorded date.


Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKv6xQkfB64

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 19 Feb 25 - 10:16 PM

January 24, 1936.   Decca 60401 "Get 'em from the peanut man" sung by Georgia White.
This is a cover of the 1935 Lil Johnson recording.

This recording date proceeds the February and March 1936 recordings of
Lil Johnson directly above.

Recording date info from here: https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/110377/White_Georgia



Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYyAUmCUbEs

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 19 Feb 25 - 11:07 PM

I'm going to have Mr. Poe sing a little number that was
written by a young chap. The only number that he ever
wrote. But he happened to be called away in the great American
army to fight for his country and upon leaving he dedicated
the little number to his sweetheart a very beautiful number
titled "I Can't Leave Her Behind Alone".

Henry Lee, from Tennessee,
Was nothing but a business man
At business he was grand;
So he bought himself a peanut stand;
At selling peanuts Henry was every wise,
He was one of those guys who love to advertise,
Now when you'd pass him by,
You'd hear Henry cry:

Hot nuts, hot nuts,
Now does anybody here want hot peanuts?
Hot nuts, hot nuts,
I'm telling you, they're grand.
Go get them hot, the way you should,
'Cause you all know cold nuts are no good,
Hot nuts, hot nuts,
Get them from the peanut man.

Go get them from the peanut man,
'Cause that's what makes the peanut stand.
Hot nut, hot nuts,
Get them from the peanut man.
Now folks, you ask me why the whistle blew;
If you had hot nuts you'd whistle too;
Hot nuts, hot nuts,
Get them from the peanut man.

1940s. Blank 78 record. Attributed to Fred Shaw. The singer
is a "Mr. Poe". The text is very similar to printed version
in The "Wrecks" (1934)


Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcULoIA_ZKo

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 20 Feb 25 - 01:40 PM

Hot Nuts
(Williams-Noel)

Hot nuts!
Hot nuts!
Well you get them from the peanut man
Not nuts!
Feel like nuts mister?
Well you better get 'em while you can.

You sitting over there dressed in brown
You've got the longest nuts that there is in town

Hot nuts!
Well, hot nuts!
Everyboy!
Get'em from the peanut man!
Hot nuts!

Brother you sitting over there dressed in grey
'Cause your nuts are getting staler 'n' staler every day

Now you stand over there dressed in green
'Cause you've got the longest nuts that I ever seen

Now baby setting over there dressed in blue
You've got three nuts and still up to.

Now brother you stepped your nuts in gasoline
Now you've got the hottest nuts that I've ever seen

1951. "Hot Nuts" sung by Hattie Noel on Blue Records. BLU 104-A. Reissued on the LP Songs for Fun, band #4 "Hot Nuts". Dooto DTL-212.


Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POcO4JoFZvw

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 26 Feb 25 - 10:22 PM

Hot Nuts (part one)

Spoken: In the garden of Eden stood Eve & Adam
Stroking the loins of his madam
He smiled and with mirth
Because he knew that on earth
There were only two nuts and he had 'em

If any young girls in here my as well start walking
My friend Johnny is likely to do some fancy talking

Nuts!
Hot nuts!
You get'em from the peanut man
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nuts!
Hot Nuts!
You get'em anywhere every you can.

You see that man all dressed in brown
He's got the hottest nuts in town

The fat man there standing tall
Tell me he aint got no nuts at all.

Now the girl over there dressed in green
She lost her quarter in the bathroom machine

The cool guy there who's name is Harry
He's got nuts but he's still a fairy

Now you hear our drummer going [tap tap]
I bet you five dollars he's got the [clap clap]

I got some in the kitchen, I got some in the hall,
I got some on my finger and I wiped it down the wall.

Well I got some in a Cadillac and I got some in a Ford
But the best I had was on the running board.

I got some in the sunshine, I got some in the rain
But the best I had was on a choo-choo-train.

The guy over there is a PiGam
Now he's got nuts but they ain't worth a damn.

See that girl her name is Pearl
She cracked so many nuts we call her squirrel.

Now you see that girl wearing the slacks?
She shacks!

Well bob-a-bob-a-loo-bob ju-bob-a-bam
They won't stay hot, I just don't give a damn

1958. "Hot Nuts (Part 1)" Nuts to You LP by Doug Clark and His Hot Nuts issued in 1958.


Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUY1LvdPHc&t=552s

Doug Clark learned the song in 1954 and it became their signature song. They toured all over the east coast.

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 27 Feb 25 - 08:37 AM

Not Nuts (Part 2)

Spoken: Ah, yes, here we are again. Once again we
are going to bring out Doug Clark and his hot nuts
and more nuts to you

Nuts!
Hot nuts!
You get 'em from the peanut man
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nuts!
Hot Nuts!
You get 'em anywhere every you can.

Now this guy Bill is a DKE
His nuts are so long they hang below his knee

Me and my girl we went on a hunt
I didn't shoot nutten so she gave me some smiles

The little red rooster said the little yellow duck
You ain't good looking but you sure can fight.

Now the girl over there her name is Mary
She ain't got nuts just dingleberries.

We went to Debonell's for fancy dress
While we were there I got in a hell of mess
I saw a girl all dressed in white
So I got behind her and took a bite
I bit and I bit and I bit and I bit
'Till I found out I had a mouth full of...

The guy in the back his name is Tommy Tucker
He's got small nuts but he's a bad motorcycle.

The girl in blue whose name is Sue
She'll polish your knob if you ask her to

The girl over there that's dressed in green
Goes down like a submarine

That guy over swinging that pick
He missed one day and cut of his finger

I got some in the river and I got some in the lake
The best I had was in The Tar Heel State.

Our guitar player thinks he's it.
That's why we call him chicken ... whoa

Now old Pete has a big old grin
Somebody told him humping was a sing

Adam and Eve were sitting on a rock
Eve told Adam, "I can see your smile."

Now you see that guy who's name is Ben
He buy's his nuts at the five and ten.

The guy over there goes to Georgia Tech
His nuts so long they wrap around his neck

The man who's name is Maryland name Trendell
Says his nut's sound like Chinese bells.

See that guy he likes to drink wine
Bet his nuts ain't as hot as mine

You see that girl dressed in pink
She's the one that made my finger stink

If you've been to this party your crazy
I be there ain't a cherry in the whole damned place.

The guy name Art is a basketball player
Every girl he takes out he wants to lay her.

The fellow over there who's coat that's green,
He's got nuts that swing and swing.

Our vocalist who's name is Prince
He caught his nuts in a picket fence.

See that guy dressed like a fool
He's got a lot of nuts like a Jersey fool.

You see that girl wearing the pumps
She humps

Well bob-a-bob-a-loo-bob ju-bob-a-bam
They won't stay hot, I just don't give a damn

1958. "Hot Nuts (Part 2)" Nuts to You LP by Doug Clark and His Hot Nuts.

Doug Clark learned the song in 1954 and it became their signature song. They toured all over the east coast.


Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUY1LvdPHc&t=1643s

Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Jack Horntip
Date: 01 Mar 25 - 10:49 AM



From here: https://balladindex.org/Ballads/EM344.html

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Hot Nuts

DESCRIPTION: To a chorus beginning "Hot nuts. Hot nuts. Get 'em from the peanut man," we hear descriptions of various men's nuts, and various girls' reaction to same. All verses end with the exclamation "Nuts!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1935 (recording, Lil Johnson)
KEYWORDS: bawdy nonballad
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cray-EroticMuse, pp. 344-346, "Hot Nuts" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Lil Johnson, "Get 'Em from the Peanut Man" (Champion 50002, 1935) (Vocalion 03199/Vocalion 03241, 1936); "Get 'em from the Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)" (Champion 50002, 1935) (ARC 6-5-58/Vocalion 03199, 1936)
Georgia White, "Get "em from the Peanut Man" (Decca 7152, 1936)
SAME TUNE:
Georgia White, "New Hot Nuts" (Decca 7631, 1939)
Lil Johnson, "Get 'em from the Peanut Man (The New Hot Nuts)" (Vocalion 03241, 1936)
File: EM344

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Subject: RE: Origins: Hot Nuts (Bawdy)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 02 Mar 25 - 04:18 AM

Late UK bluesman George Melly did a version for many years. My own challenge was to find a rhyme for orange. The best I could come up with needs odd pronunciation to work: "See that man who's shirt's orange? He's got big nuts but they look a bit strange."
(Ira Gershwin, I'm not!)
RtS