Cover of I WISH I COULD SHIMMY LIKE MY SISTER KATE in 1922 - with her husband Clarence Williams, who published the song that same year, freed from his partner and author Armand Piron, violist, bandleader and hairdresser in New Orleans; his barbershop was a meeting place for musicians; the Williams & Piron Music Company was the first black-owned music publishing company in town
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