is Good Morning Little Schoolgirl actually an original dead song? I'm pretty sure it isn't, but if so, could anybody tell me who it is by originally?
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ugly rumor wrote:Tom is correct... but not specific enough. It was the first Sonny Boy Williamson, who recorded it for Bluebird in about 1938.Sonny Boy I not II - Forgot about that one
jolietbound wrote:1937 on Bluebird (RCA) but who knows where SB 1 first heard it. I doubt it was completely original to him. Maybe someone knows if an earlier performance history is mentioned for this song prior to 1937?It's almost certainly not original to Sonny Boy I
Re the GD version I thought Demarais was some executive at Chess Records. Again copyright on these old songs is almost random. The performers at that time had no idea about the Library of Congress or the Copyright Office. Some person or the record company later would just write down a piano version with the lyrics and file a claim on a song they thought they could use to extract money from someone.
jolietbound wrote:1937 on Bluebird (RCA) but who knows where SB 1 first heard it. I doubt it was completely original to him. Maybe someone knows if an earlier performance history is mentioned for this song prior to 1937?Probably true. The money in the music business is in songwriting. One of the most interesting examples of a cheesy attempt to capitalize on this was Jon and Sally Tiven, New york songwriters who had the idea of resurrecting long-out-of-circulation artists, such as Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, maybe others I am unaware of, and inducing them to make records of songs credited to the Tivens. Probably made them a few bucks! But the tradition is long of recording songs and taking songwriter's credits, sometimes just by changing a line or two. Look at Bobby Rush's song catalogue; credit for many familiar tunes, sometimes the song, sometimes the title of an old song with new lyrics. Also, listen to the Beatles introduction to "Revolution", copied directly from a Pee Wee Crayton song from the early '50s, which in turn was copied directly from a Buddy Moss song, actually used twice by him, from the late '30s. I would have to find the titles of those songs, but will if anyone says they want to know.
Re the GD version I thought Demarais was some executive at Chess Records. Again copyright on these old songs is almost random. The performers at that time had no idea about the Library of Congress or the Copyright Office. Some person or the record company later would just write down a piano version with the lyrics and file a claim on a song they thought they could use to extract money from someone.
amyjared wrote:I always loved Ten Year's After's version the best, as it was one of the first versions of this song I ever heard. I even have a nice tab of TYA's version, if anyone is interested. Of course, seeing the boys play this w/Santana at Calveras was also a highlight.Alvin Lee can flat out play. He's always been a favorite - I really wanted an ES335 in high school because of him.
I am NOT the Rick Mullen who played bass for Alvin Lee after Ten Years AfterI thought Leo Lyons was their bass player? I saw Alvin open for zz top in Greensboro in '80 or '81 and he blew everyone away. He usually prefaces Good Morning Little Schoolgirl by rubbing his guitar along the mic stand and then launching into it! Such a great guitarist and so under the radar, even after that Woodstock performance.