Artist: Trixie Smith
Author: J. Berni Barbour
Label: Black Swan
Year: 1923
With Fletcher Henderson & his Jazz Masters. Big seller in Chicago. First recording with both the words rock and roll in the title. Further on the lyrics go: "I looked at the clock and the clock struck one, I said, Now daddy, ain't we got fun". What makes it even a thematical precursor of Rock Around The Clock.
Covers:
Golden Gate Orchestra [no connection with the later gospel quartet]
Southern Quartet [as My Daddy Rocks Me]
Bucktown Five [answer song as Steady Rollin' Blues]
Harold Ortli's Ohio State Collegians [white band on Okeh; a dancefloor hit]
Jimmy Noone's Apex Club Orch. [vocal: May Alix]
Tampa Red [as My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) feat. female impersonator Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon]
Lil Johnson [answer song as Rock That Thing]
Ikey Robinson [answer song as Rock Me Mama]
Hot Shot Willie [answer song as Rollin' Mama Blues]
Trixie Smith [new version for Decca with Sydney Bechet following Robert Johnson's answer song I'm A Steady Rollin' Man]
Benny Goodman [as Six Appeal]
Wynonie Harris [answer song as Round The Clock (see there)]
Rosemary Clooney [as My Baby Sends Me]
Mae West [as My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)]
Bob Brozman [as One Steady Roll]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)