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Artist: Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
Author: Minnie McCoy
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1930
Vocalion field unit recording in Memphis; vocal: only Minnie. An earlier version recorded for Columbia (the New York session that gave them their stage names) was released in the slipstream of the Vocalion hit version.
Covers:
Memphis Jug Band [as Bumble Bee Blues, also with Memphis Minnie and for Victor]
Tampa Red [idem]
John Lee Hooker [under alias Johnny Williams for Staff; due to the risqué lyrics? He cut it as Sugar Mama using his own name for Chess that same year (see Sugar Mama Blues N°1)]
Big Mama Thornton [as Big Mama's Bumble Bee Blues]
Corey Harris [as Bumble Bee Blues]
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)