Artist: Arthur Fields
Author: Bob Carleton
Label: Columbia/Victor
Year: 1919
Also for Edison and Emerson. Introduced by Cliff Edwards in vaudeville in 1918.
Covers:
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom [same chord changes in What Is It That Taste Like Gravy?]
Blind Boy Fuller [same chords in Truckin' My Blues Away and two years later again in What's That Smells Like Fish; that same year Robert Johnson was also inspired by these very same chord changes for They're Red Hot, but that title deserves its own lemma]
Johnny Temple & Harlem Hamfats [as What Is That Smells Like Gravy]
Sonny Boy Williamson I [as I'm Tired Trucking My Blues Away, answering Blind Boy Fuller]
Miles Davis & Sonny Rollins [same chords in Doxy]
Johnny & The Hurricanes [hit US, top 20 UK]
Hugues Aufray [in French]
Arlo Guthrie [same chords in Alice's Restaurant Massacre]
Hot Tuna [as Ja-Da (Keep On Truckin'), crediting Bob Carleton]
Duke Robillard [as What Is It That Tastes Like Gravy]
Jada by the Pointer Sisters is a different song.
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)