Dave quotPistol Petequot Cutrell Midnight Special first commercial recording

YOUR LINK HERE:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ltkDphhhzgI

Midnight Special is a traditional folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South. The title comes from the refrain, which refers to the passenger train Midnight Special and its ever-loving light (sometimes ever-living light ). • Let the Midnight Special shine her light on me,Let the Midnight Special shine her ever-loving light on me. (Traditional) • The song is historically performed in the country-blues style from the viewpoint of the prisoner and has been covered by many artists. • Lyrics appearing in the song were first recorded in print by Howard Odum in 1905.[2] • Get up in the mornin' when ding dong rings,Look at table — see the same damn thing. • The first printed reference to the song itself was in a 1923 issue of Adventure magazine, a three-times-a-month pulp magazine published by the Ridgway Company.[3] In 1927 Carl Sandburg published two different versions of Midnight Special in his The American Songbag, the first published versions.[4] • The song was first commercially recorded on the OKeh label in 1926 as Pistol Pete's Midnight Special by Dave Pistol Pete Cutrell (a member of McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band). Cutrell follows the traditional song except for semi-comedic stanzas about McGinty and Gray and a cowboy band . • The song, as popularized by Ledbelly Ledbetter, has many parallel lines to other prison songs. It is essentially the same song as De Funiac Blues, sung and played by Burruss Johnson and recorded by John Lomax at the Raiford State Penitentiary in Florida on 2 June 1939. Many of the lines appear in prison work songs such as Jumpin Judy, Ain't That Berta, Oh Berta and Yon' Comes de Sargent. These songs, including Ledbetter's Midnight Special. are composite. They mix standard prison song verses indiscriminately. Many of these component pieces have become canonized in the blues idiom and appear in mutated forms regularly in blues lyrics. • Although later versions place the locale of the song near Houston, early versions such as Walk Right In Belmont (Wilmer Watts; Frank Wilson, 1927) and North Carolina Blues (Roy Martin, 1930) — both essentially the same song as Midnight Special — place it in North Carolina. Most of the early versions, however, have no particular location. Only one recording, collected by the Lomaxes at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, actually identifies the railroad operating the Midnight Special — the Illinois Central which had a route through Mississippi. • PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads among multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: http://john1948.wikifoundry.com/page/...

#############################

New on site