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22 Mar 99 - 12:34 PM (#65035) Subject: Miss. John Hurt, Need 'I'm Satisfied From: yortega@hotmail.com Need some help with the Mississippi John Hurt tune "I'm Satisfied". What is she giving to who she pleases? Sounds something like "toetl oh". And - is it a Delta dialect term or just a nonsense word filler. thanks to anyone who can help. Yolanda Ortega |
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06 Mar 05 - 08:00 PM (#1428430) Subject: RE: Miss. John Hurt, Need 'I'm Satisfied From: GUEST,Bob in PDX I believe it I give my "total all" to who I please. |
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07 Mar 05 - 12:42 AM (#1428533) Subject: RE: Miss. John Hurt, Need 'I'm Satisfied From: Rustic Rebel On this link (Tink's) they have the song and another two words that apply! |
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16 Aug 07 - 09:45 PM (#2127558) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Satisfied (Mississippi John Hurt) From: GUEST I read that Tottulo (spelling unknown was the equivalent to a dance card in Hurt's day in the south. She would agree to dance with whoever she choose. The song is a song of her reaching the age of independance and announcing her intention to use it. |
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17 Aug 07 - 03:39 PM (#2128141) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Satisfied (Mississippi John Hurt) From: PoppaGator Tink's Lyrics (referenced above), which was a wonderful and essentially complete collection of MJH lyrics, is no longer available on the Internet. The free web-hosting service he was using is in some kind of transitional state. Let's hope this is temporary, and that Tink will reappear soon, perhaps under a new URL. The MJH Museum website has a lyrics page: http://www.msjohnhurtmuseum.com/lyrics.html ...which still includes a link to the late lamented Tink's Lyrics site, and also provides some other links, to individual song lyrics, which are presumably still operable. When I sing "I'm Satisfied," I am content to let the meaning of the word "toodle-ooh" remain ambiguous and double-entendre-ish. GUEST may or may not have correct information about the word "tottulo," but I have to wonder: what's really going on when someone proposes to sell his/her dance card? |
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20 Aug 07 - 10:09 PM (#2130096) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm Satisfied (Mississippi John Hurt) From: Jim Dixon There was a dance called the Todalo. I have been unable to find a description of the dance, but it apparently involved shaking and/or shimmying. Apparently the suggestive nature of the dance led to "todalo" being used as a euphemism for something more explicitly sexual. But I found some song (or tune) titles: BALTIMORE TODALO, by Eubie Blake, 1909. THE DARKEY TODALO: A RAGGEDY RAG, by Joe Jordan, 1910. TODDLING THE TODALO, by Billy Murray, 1911. Duke Ellington and his trumpeter James "Bubber" Miley wrote and recorded THE EAST ST LOUIS TOODLE-OO in 1926-27, but the spelling was apparently a printer's error, and should have been "todalo." Regarding the exact meaning and derivation of "todalo," I've found references to a couple of scholarly articles: On Toodle-oo, Todalo, and Jenny's Toe by Mark Tucker, in American Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring, 1988), pp. 88-91. …which is a reply to Jenny's Toe Revisited: White Responses to Afro-American Shaking Dances by Chadwick Hansen, in American Music, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 1-19. |