BUCKET'S GOT A HOLE IN IT, THE
Created on 01/10/2004Latest update on 17/07/2023
Artist: Tom Gates
Author: Lee Blevins/Victor Sells
Label: Gennett
Year: 1927
Recorded in St. Paul, Minnesota. Melody already used by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings in their She's Crying For The Blues ('25 - Victor), also by Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight in '27 as To-Wa-Bac-A-Wa-Yale Blues. Not to be confused with There's A Hole In My Bucket (see: Wenn der Topf aber nun a Lock hat').
Covers:
- 1937:
Lil Johnson [reissued on Document cd Lil Johnson & Barrelhouse Annie - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 3.]
- 1938:
Washboard Sam [as My Bucket's Got A Hole In It]
- 1946:
Kid Ory [idem]
- 1949:
Hank Williams [n°2 C&W]
- 1949:
T. Texas Tyler [top 5 C&W]
- 1949:
Fat Man Robinson [R&B cover with on the B-side an R&B version of Blues Stay Away From Me]
- 1950:
- 1958:
- 1958:
Ricky Nelson [top 10 C&W]
- 1960:
Harry Belafonte & Odetta [At Carnegie Hall]
- 1964:
- 1967:
Bob Dylan [Basement tape]
- 1968:
- 1968:
- 1978:
- 1984:
- 2001:
- 2005:
- 2006:
- 2008:
Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson [all as My Bucket's Got A Hole In It]
Even Hank Williams, father of the post war country, was influenced by the blues. According to Texas producer Huey P. Meaux (who dated Hank's first wife Audrey), she kept a boxload of her ex husband's blues recordings under her bed.
