ab3@stat-l (Rsk the Wombat) (04/18/84)
I'm looking for leads on a couple of old tunes that I last heard about ten
years ago...
The first one features the story of how some British "bobby" busted a guy
for playing boogie-woogie out in the streets, and how he gets dragged into
court and so on, and the judge needs an explanation of this "boogie-woogie"
(pronounced "bu-jee-wu-jee") music...most of the words are spoken, I think.
Number two has been multiply recorded I think; the version I'm looking for
has a male singer, and is sort of laid back, just a guitar and not much else
behind the guy; the lyrics go...
"Champagne don't make me crazy,
Cocaine don't make me lazy,
Ain't nobody's business but my own."
Thanks for any help you folks can bring to bear...
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Rsk the Wombat
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{ cornell, eagle, hplabs, ittvax, lanl-a, ncrday } !purdue!rskrs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher) (04/21/84)
The song about "boojie woojie" music is by Long John Baldry, a British bluesman. I don't know the song title, or any album title, though. I'm not sure about the second song that was requested (lyric about champagne and cocaine), but I think the submitter might be thinking of a cover version done by Leon Redbone. The song title is "Ain't Nobody's Business (But My Own)", I think. Leon has been seen on Saturday Night Live a few times. Bob Schleicher ihuxk!rs55611 AT&T Bell Laboratories
brenner@aruba.DEC (04/23/84)
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The version of "(Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on) The King of Rock'n'Roll"
that has the long monologue about the British bobby was done by that fellah
with Mad Dogs and Englishmen. My memory keeps reporting his name as Leon
Russell. I'm not totally positive on this.
Leon Redbone does a nice "Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own" ("Champaign don't
make me crazy...") but you also might be thinking of Taj Mahal's rendition
which is even more laid back, and looser, funkier.
Ellen Brenner
...decvax!decwrl!rhea!aruba!brennerers@ccivax.UUCP (04/24/84)
John Baldrey is a close approximation of the name of the artist who wrote "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll", the title of the requested song. I believe that is also the title of the album. The album has a number of nice cuts including a version of "Buttons and Bows" that is sweet enough to make a dead fish cry. If my memory serves me, Baldrey was very big amongst British Blues of the '60s. He was known for having only the best of bands. I have heard rumors that Baldrey gave the likes of Rod Stewart a start. I have always assumed that Billie Halliday wrote the second song. My guess for it's title is "Nobody's Business". E. Randall Stuckless. CCI ..!rochester!ritcv!ccivax
rob@ctvax.UUCP (04/24/84)
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ctvax!rob Apr 24 10:54:00 1984
The first song was by Long John Baldry.
I think it might be called "King of Rock 'n' Roll".
Rob Spray
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