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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Dan Quinn
Author: Will Handy
Label: Victor
Year: 1902
N°3 US. Derived from a frontier favorite about fertility symbol The Ram Of The Derby (Roud #126), an English ballad popular with soldiers at the birth of the American nation. Became a New Orleans jazz funeral standard. Once the body buried, the Grand Marshall turns his sash (from dark to colourful), the snare drummer removes the muffling handkerchief from his tom, rolls the drum loudly and the whole band starts to play Didn't He Ramble. Jazz literally rose from the death.
Covers:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford [as Darby's Ram]
Charlie Poole [as He Rambled; he also recorded Arthur Collins's Moving Day (as It's Moving Day)]
Grandpa Jones [as Darby's Ram]
Lulu Belle & Scotty [idem]
Teddy Buckner [in film Pete Kelly's Blues]
Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling [as The Darby Ram]
A.L. Lloyd [as The Derby Ram]
Oscar Brand [idem]
Peggy Seeger & Guy Carawan [idem]
Tennessee Ernie Ford [idem]
Judy Hart [Judy Henske produced by Jack Nitzsche]
Ian Campbell Folk Group [as Derby Ram]
Jean Ritchie [as Darby Ram]
Debby McClatchy [as Charlie Poole's Ramble]
Loudon Wainwright III [on High, Wide & Handsome - The Charlie Poole Project]
In New Orleans death is considered as a relief, birth as a burden.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)