BACON FAT

Created on 29/11/2005
Latest update on 20/05/2023

Artist: André Williams
Author: André Williams/Dorothy Brown
Label: Fortune
Year: 1956

With his 'New Group', distributed coast-to-coast by Epic. His 'old' group The Five Dollars, with a frustrated Jay Johnson claiming he wrote part of the lyrics, jumped on the bandwagon with their How To Do The Bacon Fat sequel.

Covers:

1957:

Five Dollars [sequel as How To Do The Bacon Fat; without André Williams]

1965:

Sir Douglas Quintet

1969:

Mothers Of Invention [live]

1973:

Jesse Ed Davis

1978:

Manhattan Transfer [on their live album]

1988:

Frank Zappa [with own lyrics on Broadway The Hard Way]

1994:

Cub Koda

1999:

Willy DeVille

2018:

Steve Howell & The Mighty Men

2018:

Ray Collins Hot Club

Taj Mahal's Bacon Fat was an unreleased demo from The Band.

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