SQUEEZE ME
Created on 04/05/2007Latest update on 02/11/2022
Artist: William 'Buster' Bailey
Author: Fats Waller/Clarence Williams
Label: Banner
Year: 1925
In fact written by Andy Razaf with Fats Waller, but music publisher Clarence Williams claimed his piece of the cake. Razaf seeked for another publisher after 1926.
Covers:
- 1925:
- 1925:
Clarence Williams' Blue Five [vocal: his wife Eva Taylor]
- 1926:
Fats Waller [on private rent party as The Boy In The Boat ("He doesn't wear no hat or coat"); hymn to clitoral stimulation]
- 1926:
- 1928:
- 1934:
- 1935:
- 1939:
Willie The Lion Smith [as The Boy In The Boat]
- 1942:
- 1944:
- 1957:
- 1974:
- 1996:
- 2012:
- 2017:
Not to be confused with Duke Ellington's Squeeze Me, known from Johnny Hodges ('59), Joe Zawinul ('59), Diana Krall ('94) and Barbara Hendricks ('95).
