Artist: Freddie Slack & Ella Mae Morse
Author: Don Raye/Gene De Paul
Label: Capitol
Year: 1942
With T-Bone Walker, out of the blue. N°1 R&B. Celebrates the heavyset Jimmy Rushing, the featured vocalist of Count Basie Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.
Covers:
Grace McDonald [in film Behind The Eight Ball]
Don Raye also wrote Cow Cow Boogie (see Cow Cow Blues), Down The Road A-Piece (see there), Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)