Artist: McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Author: Billy Moll/Murray Mencher
Label: Victor
Year: 1930
Vocal: George Thomas. Bandleader: Don Redman. Benny Carter and James P. Johnson were also involved. Drummer & showman William McKinney was never involved whit his band's recordings. Introduced in vaudeville by Lester Allen.
Covers:
Ambrose & his Orch. [vocal: Sam Browne]
Jimmy Witherspoon [replaced Walter Davis in the band of Jay McShann]
T-Bone Walker [and in '67 on his lp I Want A Little Girl]
Roomful Of Blues [with Big Joe Turner, at the age of 72, wheelchair-bound and toothless]
Eric Clapton [married one lately]
Title skipped from playlists discretely since #MeToo.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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