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21 Apr 97 - 06:09 PM (#4135) Subject: lyrics: Mississippi Mud From: ambrose Looking for complete lyrics to Mississippi Mud... "What a dance, do they do, Lawdy Lawd I'm tellin' you, Hey Hey, Uncle Bud, it's a treat tro beat yo' feet on the Mississippi Mud..." |
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21 Apr 97 - 11:13 PM (#4158) Subject: RE: lyrics: Mississippi Mud From: TomG Before the last line you have above, there's lines: "They don't need no band/ They keep time by a-beatin' their hands/" But I don't remember any more than that. Maybe this will jog someone's memory. |
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21 Apr 97 - 11:17 PM (#4159) Subject: RE: lyrics: Mississippi Mud From: TomG Before the last line you have above, there's lines: "They don't need no band/ They keep time by a-beatin' their hands/" But I don't remember any more than that. Maybe this will jog someone's memory. |
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22 Apr 97 - 09:09 AM (#4194) Subject: RE: lyrics: Mississippi Mud From: Les Blank ---When the sun goes down, the stars come out, The people gather round and they all begin to shout Hey Hey Uncle Bud, it's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud ! What a dance do they do, Lordy how I'm telling you ! They don't need no band, they keep time by clappin' their hands. Easier than a cow, a chewin' on her cud When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud !! That's all I remember !! |
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22 Apr 97 - 07:34 PM (#4217) Subject: RE: lyrics: Mississippi Mud From: ambrose Thanks Tom and Les. That's a good start. Maybe we'll get lucky on the rest of it. |
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24 Aug 98 - 07:20 PM (#35866) Subject: Lyr Add: MISSISSIPPI MUD (from Patti Page) From: Gene Here is A VERSION of MISSISSIPPI MUD by Patti Page. Y'ALL COME-PATTI PAGE/Mercurry MGW 12295
MISSISSIPPI MUD PATTI PAGE When the sun goes down The tide goes out The people gather round and they all begin to shout Hey! Hey! Uncle Jack! It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud. What a dance do they do Lordy, how I'm tellin' you They don't need no band They keep time by clappin' their hands Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud. Lordy how they play it, Goodness how they sway it Uncle Joe! Uncle Jim! How they pound the mire with vigor and vim Sure that music thrills me Boy, it nearly kills me What a show, when they go They either beat it up either fast or slow. The sun goes down The tide goes out The people gather round and they all begin to shout Hey! Hey! Uncle Jack! It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud. What a dance do they do Lordy, how I'm tellin' you They don't need no band They keep time by clappin' their hands Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud When the people beat their feet ... on the Mississippi Mud.
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25 Aug 98 - 04:00 AM (#35908) Subject: RE: lyrics: Mississippi Mud From: jester@buncombe.main.nc.us I used to have a recording of der Bingle (Bing Crosby)himself singing this tune, with Bix Beiderbeck on trumpet or cornet. The lyrics were somewhat less politically corect, (recorded, I believe in the late '20's) and I recall being shocked and amazed as I listened. Never knew that Patti Page recorded it as well... JESTER! |
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14 Jun 04 - 07:46 AM (#1206800) Subject: RE: lyrics: Mississippi Mud From: Billy Weeks What, in fact has happened to this thread? It seems to have two separate strands. Can the threadmeisters sort this out? So far as 'Mississippi Mud' is concerned, the Paul Whiteman version has vocal by the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Harry Barriss, Al Rinka) and the sound of Bix's cornet is evident. I think it has been reissued on both vinyl and CD. Fine performance, even on 78, once you accept that it is a product of its time and that it is 'darkies' who gather round in the first verse. |
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14 Jun 04 - 10:08 AM (#1206895) Subject: RE: lyrics: Mississippi Mud From: Stilly River Sage I'll post this here to keep it in one place with the mistaken post. This (for me, at any rate) illustrates a problem with the new annotated search feature. I searched on "Burl Ives" and must have come up with the non-sequitur on this thread posted by "Wyatt" who apparently just randomly dropped in to ask an unrelated question. In my search I clicked on "thread," saw mention of Burl Ives, so dropped down to the bottom to add my remark--only to see when it posted that I was using a site that is inappropriate. 1. it's lyrics and 2. it isn't about Burl Ives at all. Oops. I'll post a note to Joe Offer on the help page, and if he wants he can take these last couple of posts of mine off of the page. But take it under advisement--for as often as we engage in "thread drift" we're going to end up with some odd things resulting from some searches if we read only the annotation (to one entry somewhere in the thread). SRS |
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14 Jun 04 - 12:25 PM (#1207002) Subject: RE: lyrics: Mississippi Mud From: Joe Offer We had an "event" back in 1997 that scrambled some of our threads, and Mixed Burl Ives into the Mud of the Mississippi. I've sorted everything out, and you'll find Burl here (click). Thanks for pointing this out, SRS and Billy. -Joe Offer- |
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15 Jun 04 - 12:59 AM (#1207456) Subject: RE: lyrics: Mississippi Mud From: Genie Gene, your version jibes with the song as I know it, except that I learned it (sheet music, too) as "Uncle Dud" -- which makes the rhyme with "Mud." :) |
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19 Jun 04 - 12:14 PM (#1210456) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mississippi Mud From: Jim Dixon MISSISSIPPI MUD was written by James Cavanaugh and Harry Barris in 1927. Harry Barris, Bing Crosby, and Al Rinker were the original members of Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys, who first recorded it. The Red Hot Jazz Archive has several complete recordings you can hear: - 2 versions by The Rhythm Boys from 1927 (medley with I LEFT MY SUGAR STANDING IN THE RAIN) - 3 versions by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra from 1928 and 1954. The 1928 versions feature vocals by the Rhythm Boys and Bix Beiderbecke on cornet. - 1 version by the Charleston Chasers from 1928. - 1 version by Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra from 1928. They also list versions (without providing sound files) by the Louisiana Rhythm Kings (1928), The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (1928); Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys (1928) [They had nothing to do with the style of music called bluegrass.], and The Rhythmic Eight (1928). [Side note: I find it surprising that, in those days, when a song or tune became popular, often several different performers would record it within a year or so of its first appearance. Obviously, things have changed. Is this because performers today typically buy, or retain, exclusive rights to a new song for a certain period of time, before others are allowed to "cover" it?] AMG - All Music Guide lists 100 recordings of MISSISSIPPI MUD, but I suppose many of those are duplicates, that is, reissues of the same original recordings on multiple compilations. |
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19 Jun 04 - 05:24 PM (#1210590) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mississippi Mud From: Mudlark And I learned it as Uncle Fud...hmmmm...better than Pud, I guess... |
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19 Jun 04 - 06:42 PM (#1210628) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mississippi Mud From: s&r Uncle Jud? |
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20 Jun 04 - 05:10 AM (#1210789) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mississippi Mud From: Flash Company I have two of the Rhythm Boys recordings, Definitely Uncle Dud! FC |
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17 Jan 06 - 12:38 PM (#1650268) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mississippi Mud From: GUEST,me 2 yo yo yo im realy bored and i cant find what im loking for....yo |
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26 Aug 10 - 04:11 PM (#2973483) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mississippi Mud From: GUEST,richard No offense to AA's but the first lines are When the sun goes down, tide goes out The darkies gather round and they all begin to shout. |
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27 Aug 10 - 11:29 AM (#2974015) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mississippi Mud From: leeneia2 Go to YouTube and search for 'Mississippi Mud.' There are quite a few versions. Most interesting! |
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28 Aug 10 - 06:46 PM (#2974835) Subject: Lyr Add: MISSISSIPPI MUD (from Paul Whiteman, etc. From: Jim Dixon Here's my transcription of one of the later recordings. Note that "darkies" had changed to "people" by 1954. I'm not sure who all the vocalists were at this point, but I'm pretty sure I heard Bing Crosby among them. The sung lines are interspersed with scat singing, which I have not bothered to annotate. MISSISSIPPI MUD As recorded by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Dec. 7, 1954, Coral 61336. When the sun goes down, the tide goes out, The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout: "Hey, hey, Uncle Dud, It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud. It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud." What a dance do they do! Lordy, how I'm tellin' you! They don't need no band. They keep time by clappin' their hand(s). Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud, When the people their feet on the Mississippi mud. Lordy, how they play it! Goodness, how they sway it! How that music thrills me! Wow, it nearly kills me! REPEAT: What a dance ... etc. |
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28 Aug 10 - 11:35 PM (#2974945) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mississippi Mud From: Genie Good transcription, Jim, and those are the lyrics I've seen in sheet music too -- except that you left out the word "beat" in the last line (before "their feet ... "). |
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29 Aug 10 - 07:41 AM (#2975068) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mississippi Mud From: Jim Dixon Due to a of proofreading no doubt. I'm lucky I can a whole sentence together. |