LAVENDER COFFIN

Created on 16/02/2006
Latest update on 01/02/2010

Artist: Fat Man Robinson
Author: Shirley Albert
Label: Motif
Year: 1949

To be buried in a lavender coffin was the last will of a gambler.

Covers:

1949:

Lionel Hampton [with Wes Montgomery]

1949:

Tex Beneke

1949:

Joe Thomas [Jimmie Lunceford's tenor sax for 15 years; Thomas became an undertaker himself in the '50s]

1994:

Buster Poindexter

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