Awesome post - Thanks a lot!
Missed Stuttering Cindy, the other Charlie Feathers stuttering song 
http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/lab...els/p/
p1940.htm
Great post, thank you!
Missed Stuttering Cindy, the other Charlie Feathers stuttering song, though: http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/lab...els/p/
p1940.htm
And what about Lo-lo-lo-lo-lola by The Kinks?
Very impressive, Chris. I had no idea there was this kind of tradition.
My grandma used to sing me songs she had heard at minstrel shows when she was a little girl. One of them was "You Tell Her, I Stutter" (although I never knew the title until now).
I have found the Jimmy Lee Prow single listed as King 4929 on various E-Bay and record selling sites, but I have not been able to verify this with any reasonable source. Perhaps you have better resources than I.
Thanks for the informative post. I don't think there's anything more exciting to this music junkie than hearing new tunes with this level of context. Anybody who can tie Billy Murray, The Five Scamps, Charlie Feathers, Patti Smith, and Joe Thomas into the same post has got to be doing a helluva job.
I think the Memphis Slim version of "Nervous" beats the Ian Whitcomb to death, but, all in all, a great post. I have the 78 of The Cotton Pickers disk but have never heard any of the other versions. Thanks!
check out
Stutterin' Papa, Buck Griffin
its RaRaRaRaRockaBilly
here: http://mac.easthouston.net/theho...p3s/
start09.mp3
Stuttering in film:
The running gag in Harold Lloyd's GIRL SHY hews pretty closely to the mold of K-K-K-Katy-- the gimmick being that he breaks the stuttering spell only when he hears a whistle.
The way this is resolved in the last moments of the last scene is nothing short of wonderful.
Strut – Jimmy Smith (with Taj Mahal, the song’s composer) on Dot Com Blues (2001). Around the 1:15 mark. I notified Judy Kuster, keeper of the list.
Commenting by HaloScan
