BIG FAT MAMAS ARE BACK IN STYLE AGAIN

Created on 01/12/2005
Latest update on 27/06/2023

Artist: Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats
Author: Sally Nix/Arnold Clawson/Toussaint Pope
Label: King
Year: 1943

Introduced in film Big Fat Mamas. Ex singer and sax player with Lucky Millinder (where he replaced Wynonie Harris). Risky bluesman; see also: Big Ten Inch Record, Nosey Joe and I Love You, Yes I Do.

Covers:

1989:

Dana Gillespie

1989:

Ray Gelato's Giants Of Jive

1991:

Taj Mahal [as Big Legged Mamas Are Back In Style]

1994:

Buster Poindexter [crediting Lucky Millinder: see: Big Fat Mama]

2003:

Ray Gelato

2005:

Candye Kane

The big fat mama style soon made room for Long Tall Sally, Bony Moronie and Skinnie Minnie's.

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