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Artist: Boozoo Chavis
Author: Wilson Chavis/Eddie Shuler
Label: Folk-Star
Year: 1954
With Classie Ballou's R&B band. Considered to be the oldest zydeco release and hit. Recorded at Eddie Shuler's Goldband Studio in Lake Charles, LA. Distributed nationally by Imperial.
Covers:
Lightnin' Slim [on The Legendary Jay Miller Sessions Vol 5; probably recorded in '54, with Wild Bill Phillips on harmonica]
Queen Ida [as Papiers dans mes souliers]
Chavis admitted he first heard this song in the 1940s by accordionist and potato farmer Ambrose Potato Sam, while performing in the dancehall of Boozoo's stepdaddy's bush racetrack. Ambrose made a short comeback as Do-Rockin' Sam on the 1995 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. John Broven in his second edition of swamp pop cronicle South To Louisiana ('19) hears 'close resemblance' with Ella Fitzgerald's Gotta Pebble In My Shoe from '39 with Chick Webb's orch. Check for yourself.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)