Booger Rooger Blues, Blind Lemon Jefferson, 1926, Some joker learned my baby how to shift gear on a Cadillac 8 // Sugar, every since that happened, I can't keep my business straight
Stealing To Her Man, Texas Alexander, Says, I b'lieve I'll get just like Mister Henry Ford // Gonna have me a woman runnin' on every road
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Willie Baker, "Sweet Patunia Blues", 1929: "I got a gal, she got a Rolls Royce, she didn't get it all by using her voice / I'm wild about my 'Tuni, only thing I crave..."
...And we've got Rolls Royal (and Packard, Ford and "Studs" (Stutz?)). Credit must go to Michael Taft via Mr. Google for this one.
Cleo Gibson, "I've Got Ford Movements In My Hips", 1929:
"I've got Ford engine movements in my hips, ten thousand miles guarantee A Ford is a car everybody wants to ride, jump in you will see You can all have the Rolls Royal, your Packard and Studs Take a Ford engine boys, to do your stuff"
Cleo Gibson, "I've Got Ford Movements In My Hips", 1929:
"I've got Ford engine movements in my hips, ten thousand miles guarantee A Ford is a car everybody wants to ride, jump in you will see You can all have the Rolls Royal, your Packard and Studs Take a Ford engine boys, to do your stuff"
DJ many thanks for mentioning this fantastic song which was on the very first compilation of "classic" female blues singers I ever bought. The LP has just been unearthed (Jazz Sounds Of The 20s - Parlophone PMC1177) and the song given a spin...super.
Rivers, sorry for taking this thread off topic for a post or two, but...
Parlophone put out an LP of "Jazz" that included Cleo Gibson? Wow. Times were different back then.
The clue lies in the sub title "blues singers and accompanists"; most featuring Armstrong, or Kid Ory or Joe Oliver. I attempted a scan of the track list, personnel and Brian Rust's notes (1962) but too faded for my ancient OCR software to cope with. Others featured are Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Chippie Hill, Butterbeans & Susie, Mamie Smith, Sara Martin and Margaret Johnson. As I said my introduction to others than Bessie Smith or Ma Rainey who at the time were the only ones I had LPs.
Sonny Boy Williamson, "Low Down Blues", 1938: "Well now I was going to buy you a Packard baby, I was going to buy you a Packard too / I was going to buy you a Cadillac you know just to try to get along with you"
I swear that Sonny Boy sings Packard twice, almost certainly that's a mistake either in Sonny Boy's singing or in my hearing. If anyone has an alternate understanding of what's being sung, I'd like to hear it.
Not the only artist to sing about Coca Cola, ... ,
Emry Arthur, who had one of the first versions (or the first version) of "Man of Constant Sorrow, sang about "I'm going to Pensacola to get drunk on Coca Cola" in his version of "Nobody's Business" (recorded 1928).
Not the only artist to sing about Coca Cola, ... ,
Emry Arthur, who had one of the first versions (or the first version) of "Man of Constant Sorrow, sang about "I'm going to Pensacola to get drunk on Coca Cola" in his version of "Nobody's Business" (recorded 1928).
Pepsi Cola would've been better.
Speaking of soft drinks: I believe that Bascom Lamar Lunsford's Good Ol' Mountain Dew was used to promote the soft drink, & I've Got an Ice Cold Nu Grape by the Nu-Grape Twins was a pre-fabricated jingle for a product intentionally done in Country Blues style.
I can't believe it! Firstly, though, is Frank Edwards' "Terraplane Blues" which has nothing whatsoever to do with R. Johnson's song IN SPITE OF WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN!
The biggie is Buddy Moss' "Ride to Your Funeral in a V-8 Ford"... because he DID just that after killing his girlfriend in 1935. Life imitating art as his recording preceded his homicide. I am surprised that y'all haven't mentioned that, but the SE tends to get lost in the sauce.