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Artist: Ernest Rogers
Author: Walter Melrose/Grant Rymal/Marty Bloom
Label: Columbia
Year: 1925
Dope habit song with roots in Vaudeville (1904). Reissued on Victor in 1927. Part of lyrics & tune were copied in Minnie The Moocher (see there).
Covers:
Doc Cook & his 14 Doctors of Syncopation [with Freddie Keppard (cornet)]
Ernest Rogers [as Willie The Chimney Sweeper]
King Oliver [top 20 US]
Bette Davis [in film The Cabin In The Cotton]
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band [sing it like Minnie The Moocher]
Fondy Riverside Bullet Band [on LP Red Roses For A Blue Lady]
Golden Glows [lyrics as in Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag]
Not to be confused with Billy Walker's eponymous country hit in '62 (top 5 C&W).
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)
Belgium