Topic: Songs that relate to Pies and Food

[bungalow bill]

I hope the Weenie populous can help here.
I'm collecting songs that relate to ....Pies and Food.
Using the great Lyric collector's book 'talkin to myself' by michael taft, i've found the lyrics, but I now need to find the tunes, preferably through the original versions (or decent interpretations of) Here's the list: (The number is the page number in the book)
33: Ed Bell or Barefoot Bill - Hambone Blues
67: Lucille BroganStew Meat Blues
98: Poppa Wants a Cookie - Leroy Carr
108: Breag Baker - Leroy Carr
124: Your Biscuits are big enough for me - Bo Chatmon
153: Walter Davis - That stuff you sell aint no good
214: Lillian Green - Pig Mear Moma
265: Cgarlie Jackson: Butter and Egg Man Blues
340: Maggie Jones: Anybody here want tio try my cabbage
354: Jack Kelly: Red Ripe Tomatoes
357: King David: What's that tastes like gravy
544: John T Smith: Good Coffee Blues
589: Tampa Red: Whats that tastes like Gravy
635:Washboard Sam: Digging my potatoes

548: (My most important) Fried Pie Blues by Curly Weaver....
If anyone can help with the tunes for any of thesew, or recordings, you will  receive a free pie!

[Slack]

Bill, please post in one topic only.

Thanks,
slack

[Stuart]

Correct the typos and do a Google search for each title. If they are available on CDs and/or as downloads, you'll find them.

[Slack]

Actually Bill,

Weenie Juke has a search function that will let you search titles or artists and will identify the CDs (Albums) these tunes are on - we've got most of them, I think, on the Juke.

[bungalow bill]

Thanks slack.
I'm a reader of the forum usually, didmn't realise the juke was so wide ranging.

[waxwing]

Are you looking for more titles? And does pie or food have to appear in the title or just in the lyrics? I mean, the number of songs that are about Jelly Roll (closely related to pie) is staggering.

Wax

[frankie]

and if the tune can just mention food, does it have to be a prepared, ready to eat food, or can it be an ingredient?

Bread, flour and meal are all prominent on the prewar blues radar...

Does it have to be blues?  Can we dip into old-time?

Here's a no-brainer from Blind Boy Fuller:  I Want Some Of Your Pie

[Slack]

Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues

Annie Raines & Paul Rishell - Custard Pie

Memphis Minnie - Wants Cake When I'm Hungry

Memphis Minnie - You Stole My Cake

Peetie Wheatstraw - Cake Alley

Ma Rainey - Georgia Cake Walk

Bo Carter - Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me

Memphis Minnie - Good Biscuits

...and on and on....

[Stuart]

Here's another place to look for more titles and lyrics:

http://www.dylan61.se/taft.htm

[Richard]

See what you started 

[dj]

Jim Towel - Buckwheat Cakes.  It's on Document 6040, Cow Cow Davenport, the Accompanist 1924 - 1929.  Sounds like a vaudeville or tent show piece.

[uncle bud]

Limiting myself to pie, there is also the Famous Hokum Boys' "Pie-Eating Strut".

Blind Willie McTell's Scarey Day Blues uses the "fried pie" verse that gives Curley Weaver's song its name.

And let's not forget O'Muck's excellent version of You'll Get Pie In the Sky When You Die, which I think has become my favorite pie song.

[TX_Songster]

Here's one-
Blind Boy Fuller, "I Crave my Pig Meat"

(although I have my doubts that he's talking about pork)

[bungalow bill]

Fantastic! What resources. I'm starting to search for tunes and finding some of these. Particularly like the fried Pie things.
Might be able to find a whole compilation album in the subject matter of pies and food, speaking widely of course. I'll investigate and get one, but limited to pre 1940s musicians.
I found a modern pie cover which looks great. http://cdbaby.com/cd/tomdoughty3  Marvelous.

[Pan]

The Pie gets to be mentioned also on Blind Boy Fullers' "What's That Smells Like Fish?".