Today I'm going to hop into The Wayback Machine and go back to the year 1947, and the number two hit on The R&B Charts by phenomenal singer and pianist Nellie Lutcher.
The album cover seen here is actually from 1950 when Capital Records released a compilation of Nellie's tunes.
When I was a little kid, my parents had a fairly large stack of 78 RPM records that I used to listen to all the time. It was all great stuff with releases by people like Spike Jones And His City Slickers, Tex Williams, Geechie Smith, Danny Kaye, Freddie Slack and others, and of course Nellie Lutcher!
I've probably listened to this song 100's of times, and if you've never heard it before, then you're in for a treat. It's a lot of fun, fairly risque for it's time, and Nellie's vocal style is incomparable.
Born in 1912, this grand lady lived on to the age of 94.
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