WE GONNA MOVE TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN

Created on 24/05/2007
Latest update on 02/01/2023

Artist: Casey Bill Weldon
Author: William Weldon
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1936

Singer and steel guitar player from Chicago. Not to be confused with the Will Weldon who played with the Memphis Jug Band. He also wrote Somebody Changed The Lock On That Door.

Covers:

1941:

Louis Jordan [as I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town, his first hit; Andy Razaf changed the lyrics from plural to singular; also as I'm Gonna Love You On The Outskirts Of Town the year after]

1942:

Jazz Gillum [idem]

1942:

Big Bill Broonzy [idem]

1942:

Count Basie [vocal: Jimmy Rushing]

1942:

Jimmie Lunceford [idem]

1944:

Josh White

1954:

Billy Ward & The Dominoes

1954:

Betty Hall Jones [answer song as Goin' Back To Town]

1961:

Ray Charles

1961:

Jimmy Smith [as I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town]

1963:

Jimmy Reed

1964:

Rod Stewart

1966:

B.B. King [also in '99 and in '93 as I Gotta Move Out Of This Neighborhood]

1968:

Jimmy Smith [as I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town]

1970:

Allman Brothers Band

1990:

Albert King

1995:

Hook Herrera [same lyrics as B.B. King in '93]

1997:

Ruth Brown [with Bonnie Raitt]

1998:

Van Morrison-Lonnie Donegan-Chris Barber [with blues guitar solo Van]

2000:

Willie Nelson [as I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town]

2001:

Jools Holland [with Taj Mahal]

2008:

David Sanborn [featuring Eric Clapton]

2018:

Wynton Marsalis [with sampled vocals by Ray Charles]

2018:

Bintangs [as Outskirts Of Town]

2021:

Omar & The Howlers [as I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town on a Jimmy Reed tribute]

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