Apr 05 1929 Annette Hanshaw records Big City Blues and That's You, Baby for Columbia Records in New York City : That's Annette Hanshaw--“THE” Flapper Girl…

Annette Hanshaw

Born on 18 October 1901, New York City, New York, USA, d. 13 March 1985. In 1926 Hanshaw had no particular ambitions to be a professional singer but was heard by an executive of Pathé Records and offered a recording contract.

She was not quite 16 when she started her recording career...

Her recordings (1926-1934) included such major jazz players as Red Nichols, Miff Mole, Jimmy Lytell, Adrian Rollini, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Vic Berton, Benny Goodman, Manny Klein, Phil Napoleon, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, and Jack Teagarden

 For the next eight years she made numerous records, radio broadcasts and film appearances before tiring of the show business life…

During her short career she recorded and performed prolifically, as a follow up to her 1928 hits “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,”

And

She recorded:

Big City Blues…

As well as:

 That's You, Baby  

“That's You Baby” is one of the recordings that established Annette as "The" Flapper Girl of the late 20s and early 30s…

Also in 1929:

Annette Hanshaw retired in 1934, at the age of 24…She passed away on March 13, 1985…

R.I.P. Annette

THANKS FOR THE MUSIC, “FLAPPER GIRL”

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Lloyd Price's version of "Stagger Lee" tops the R&B chart for the first of four weeks on Valentine's Day 1958: The History of Stagger Lee...

 

The story of Stagger Lee, or Stack-o-Lee, has been around for about a hundred years now.

                            VOL 5—NO.213. ST. LOUIS. SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 28,1895—FIVE CENTS

William Lyons, 25, a levee hand, was shot in the abdomen yesterday evening at 10 o'clock in the saloon of Bill Curtis, at Eleventh and Morgan Streets, by Lee Sheldon, a carriage driver.

Lyons and Sheldon were friends and were talking together. Both parties, it seems, had been drinking and were feeling in exuberant spirits. The discussion drifted to politics, and an argument was started, the conclusion of which was that Lyons snatched Sheldon's hat from his head. The latter indignantly demanded its return. Lyons refused, and Sheldon withdrew his revolver and shot Lyons in the abdomen. When his victim fell to the floor Sheldon took his hat from the hand of the wounded man and coolly walked away.

He was subsequently arrested and locked up at the Chestnut Street Station. Lyons was taken to the Dispensary, where his wounds were pronounced serious. Lee Sheldon is also known as 'Stag' Lee.

NOTE: White lawyer Nathaniel Dreyden defends Shelton. Dryden was the first lawyer in the state of Missouri to gain conviction of a white man for the murder of a black man. 300 angry black people hiss and curse Shelton and Dryden as they enter the courthouse.

THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF“STAGGER LEE”

The first published version of the song was by folklorist John Lomax in 1910. The song was well known in African American communities along the lower Mississippi River by the 1910s. No recordings available…

"Stagger Lee", also known as "Stagolee", "Stackerlee",
"Stack O'Lee", "Stack-a-Lee" and several other variants, is a popular folk song based on the murder of William "Billy" Lyons by Stagger Lee Shelton. Herb Wiedoeft and his band recorded the song in 1924..



This song was recorded by Ma Rainey in 1926 and released on Paramount 12357 as the 'B' side.




A cover with different lyrics, was a charted hit for Lloyd Price in 1959; Dick Clark felt that the original tale of murder was too morbid for his American Bandstand audience, and insisted that they be changed to eliminate the murder. In this version, the subject was changed from gambling to fighting over a woman, and instead of a murder, the two yelled at each other, and made up the next day. However, it was the original, unbowdlerized, version of Lloyd's performance that, on Valentine’s Day in 1958,  reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100—and stayed there for four weeks!-- and was ranked #456 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list…

There are over 400 legitimate covers of this tune...
Check it out on Google!

Jan 10 1950: Frankie Baker, the Frankie in the murder ballad Frankie And Johnny, dies in an insane asylum, in Pendleton, Oregon, USA. Frankie And Johnny has been recorded in more than 250 versions.

 

 

"Frankie and Johnny"



(sometimes spelled "Frankie and Johnnie"; also known as "Frankie and Albert" or just "Frankie") is a traditional American popular song. It tells the story of a woman, Frankie, who finds that her man Johnny was "making love to" another woman  and shoots him… Actually,  the song was inspired by a murder which took place in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 15, 1899, when Frankie Baker, a 22-year-old dancer

stabbed (or shot) her 17-year-old lover Allen "Al" Britt (who became Johnnie in the story), who was having a relationship with a woman named Alice Pryor (The name became Nellie Bly in the tune). Britt died of his wounds two days later. On trial, Baker claimed that Britt had attacked her with a knife and that she acted in self-defense; she was acquitted…

The first published version was in 1904 copyrighted by Hughie Cannon who wrote "Won't you come home Bill Bailey"…In 1908 a version was published by Frank and Bert Leighton and then again in 1912 with the words that appear in the modern versions and is recorded here on Melodee roll # 1153 with no "played by" credits…

One of the earliest  recordings was by Frank Crumit in 1927…

Of the over 250 recordings of "Frankie and Johnny" which  have been made since the early 20th century, some of the singers include Jimmie Rodgers,  Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy , Frank Crumit, Johnny Cash , Pete Seeger , Mississippi John Hurt , Mississippi Joe Callicott, Taj Mahal , Charlie Poole, Sam Cooke, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Van Morrison  AND MANY, MANY OTHERS...

 Here's Stevie Wonder’s Version…



Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Bunny Berigan, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman have also recorded the tune.

REST IN PEACE





FRANKIE BAKER ~

JOHNNIE DONE YOU WRONG…

EVOLUTION OF ROCK 'N ROLL: SEPTEMBER 11

Tex Williams' SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE was the Number One tune in the nation on September 11, 1947

SMOKE SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE

SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE

Commmander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen brought it back home to Ann Arbor, Michigan--and then the world!!!--in 1971

A classic "Ragtime" tune, this time recorded by Pee Wee Hunt (Born in 1907, his discography includes Twelth Street Rag and Dixieland. He was a member of Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra) hits #1 on the U.S. charts on September 11, 1948. 




How does this fit into the EVOLUTION of ROCK 'n ROLL? Check out the intro to Billy Preston's classic Nothing From Nothing

Edwin Starr's WAR was the number one tune on Billboard on this date in 1970. I guess it's as significant today, ten years after the attacks on the United States, now known as "911," as it was in 1970. 

WAR by Edwin Star

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!