Lyr Add: Squeeze Me (Fats Waller,Clarence Williams

Subject: Lyr Add: SQUEEZE ME (Fats Waller, C Williams)
From: Janie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 01:46 PM

I have it on a Bessie Smith LP and on a Marie Muldaur(sp.)

Squeeze Me
by Fats Waller

Daddy, you been doggone sweet on me.
Daddy, you the only one I see.
I need no one but you cause you my man.
You love me like no one can.
Somethin' 'bout you I can't resist.
When you kiss me, I stay kissed.
Oh Daddy, squeeze me, squeeze me and then,
Don't stop 'til I tell you when.
Come on, Daddy, kiss me some more,
Just like you did before.
Your Papa Cupid's standin' close by.
Don't let sweet Baby cry.
Just pick me up-oh Babe- on your knee
I just get so, you know, when you squeeze me.
I just get so, you know, when you squeeze me.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Squeeze Me' Fats Waller
From: Janie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 02:02 PM

Some sources, but not all, credit Clarence Williams with co-writing "Squeeze Me". I am finding both 1919 and 1923 as dates for the song. Perhaps 1919 was when he wrote it, and 1923 was when he published it.

Janie

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Squeeze Me' Fats Waller
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 03:34 AM

Otillie Patterson did a great version with Chris Barber's band. I have the Waller piano roll but it's a tricky tempo to sing along with....though I try!

RtS
(Help, I've got a word left over...)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Squeeze Me' Fats Waller
From: Flash Company
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 09:39 AM

Remember seeing & hearing Otillie doing this one, Where did that voice come from out of such a small lady?
Find to my amazement that I dont have it on any of my Fats CD's.

FC

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Squeeze Me' Fats Waller
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Oct 05 - 01:09 AM

The Red Hot Jazz Archive has several recordings of SQUEEZE ME: (I haven't listened to them all; some might be instrumentals.)

Clarence Williams' Blue Five, 1925.
The Halfway House Orchestra, 1925.
Bessie Smith, 1925.
Fats Waller, from a piano roll made in 1926.
Hightower's Night Hawks, 1927.
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, 1928.
Tiny Parham and his Musicians, 1930.
The Louisiana Rhythm Kings, 1930.
Fats Waller and his Rhythm, 1939.
Muggsy Spanier and his V-Disc All-Stars, 1944.