Artist: Charles 'Cow Cow' Davenport
Author: Charles Davenport
Label: Okeh
Year: 1925
Vocal: Dora Carr. Version reissued on his lp Alabama Strut (Magpie) and on the Retrospective 1925-1950 box set in the Columbia/Legacy series Roots 'n Blues. Cow Cow Davenport also made a piano roll version in 1924.
Covers:
Cow Cow Davenport [accompanied on cornet; his pure piano instrumental is from '28 (Vocalion)]
DeFord Bailey [as Davidson County Blues]
Peg Leg Howell [as Hobo Blues]
Bo Carter [as That Lonesome Train Took My Baby]
Freddie Slack & Ella Mae Morse [as Cow Cow Boogie (Raye/DePaul/Carter); Capitol's first big hit; also in film Reveille With Beverly in '43]
Pete Brown & Sammy Price [as Cannonball]
Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots [as Cow Cow Boogie; first in film Ride 'Em Cowboy, later also in film Raging Bull]
Ray Charles [in the intro of Mess Around]
Animals [crediting Ahmed Ertegun]
Professor Longhair [in intro Mess Around]
Tracy Nelson [all as Cow Cow Boogie]
Ronnie Earl [intro Mess Around]
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)