{"id":4622,"date":"2018-04-07T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-sitting-and-chairs\/"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T17:55:24","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-sitting-and-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-sitting-and-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Sitting and Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mississippi Sheiks, Sitting on Top of the World<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Phil Upchurch Combo, You Can't Sit Down<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Mose Allison, (I'm sittin' over here on) Parchman Farm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Mississippi Fred McDowell, I Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

George Jones, I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair<\/a>.  Clever lyrics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Clapton, Rocking Chair<\/a>. The old Hoagy Carmichael tune from the '20s.<\/span><\/p>\n

I've saved the best for last, The Band, Rockin' Chair<\/a>.  Lyrics included. Read 'em.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong> (4\/8)<\/span><\/p>\n

Drawing upon his vast store of musical erudition, London Ed writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I enjoyed your Saturday night special as always. (Except for Eric Clapton, but I forgive you). <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8lH6FgtG8Ck<\/a> Muskrat Ramble by Benny Goodman and his Boys 1929.<\/span><\/p>\n

My question to you is whether the chorus beginning at 0:17 sounds familiar. It should be. <\/span><\/p>\n

Benny Goodman\u2019s boys formed the nucleus for a number of musicians who become famous as Dixieland jazz developed into swing in the 1930s. These included Glenn Miller, though not featured here, Goodman himself, Jimmy Dorsey and (I think) Tommy Dorsey. The less known Wingy Manone was also one of them. He composed Tar Paper Stomp<\/a> which later transmogrified into the famous but much derided In the Mood<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

They also played with Miff Mole in the wonderfully titled \u2018Miff Mole and his little Molers\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, as the Preacher saith in Ecclesiastes<\/em> 1:9 (KJV):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Tar Paper Stomp<\/em> begat In the Mood<\/em>, and, to answer Ed's question, the chorus beginning at 0:17 of "Muskrat Ramble" begat Country Joe and Fish's I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag<\/a> from 1965.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, it's one, two, three
What are we fightin' for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn
Next stop is Viet Nam.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why Clapton rather than Carmichael? Because I like Clapton, and to irritate Ed who, for some reason, has a 'thing' against his countryman.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mississippi Sheiks, Sitting on Top of the World Phil Upchurch Combo, You Can't Sit Down Mose Allison, (I'm sittin' over here on) Parchman Farm Mississippi Fred McDowell, I Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down George Jones, I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair.  Clever lyrics. Eric Clapton, Rocking Chair. The old Hoagy Carmichael tune from … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Sitting and Chairs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}