Dolly Kay - Wabash Blues 1921 (Lyrics Version) (Indiana)

Описание: (Columbia A3534)
Recorded 12/22/1921 New York, New York.
Dolly Kay (vocalist)
Fred Meinken (composer)
Dave Ringle (lyricist)

"Wabash Blues", with words by Dave Ringle and music by Fred Meinken, was the first major success for pianist, saxophonist and song composer Isham Jones (1894–1956). Recorded in 1921 by Isham Jones and his Orchestra, this million-seller stayed twelve weeks in the U.S. charts, six at No. 1.
Dolly Kay (12 June 1900? – 26 August 1982) was an American vaudeville singer who recorded in the 1920s and was one of the first white singers to incorporate blues songs into her repertoire, most notably "Hard-Hearted Hannah".
Details of her life are obscure. She was probably born Dora Kirschenbaum in New York City in 1900. She lived with her parents in Westchester, New York, and worked as a stenographer. According to a Los Angeles Times article in 1923, she was so inspired by seeing a vaudeville performance a few years previously that she introduced herself to an agent, who auditioned her and immediately hired her. She began performing as a singer on the Orpheum Circuit, with pianist Phil Phillips, who remained her accompanist for at least the next twenty years.
She was described by one reviewer as "one of the better hot type vocalists... a distinctive singer of her day". She recorded for Columbia Records between 1921 and 1924. Her first recording, "Cry Baby Blues", was made in New York in October 1921, and the following year she had commercial success with "You've Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama At All)", which she recorded with Frank Westphal and his Orchestra. Her biggest success came with "Hard-Hearted Hannah", which she was one of the first singers to record, in 1924. She also recorded several other blues songs from Tin Pan Alley songwriters, including "Wabash Blues" (1921), "Sweet Man O' Mine" (1922) and "It Takes A Good Woman (To Keep A Good Man At Home)" (1926). Her later recordings were released on the Harmony label — a subsidiary of Columbia — and finally, in 1928, by Vocalion Records. She also used the pseudonyms Margaret White to record for Lincoln Records, and Sally Freeman on Harmony, and recorded as a member of two vocal groups, the University Six and the Georgians, led by trumpeter Frank Guarente.
She continued to perform in vaudeville and cabaret, in Chicago and elsewhere, in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1942, Billboard reported of a performance in Chicago that she was "long a favorite in local spots... Dolly Kay (with Phil Phillips at the piano) is of the old stock and sells tunes with the force of a veteran...". Her last known performance was in Los Angeles in 1965, when she appeared in a variety show to honor the 40-year career of theatre and movie star Fifi D'Orsay. She died in Los Angeles in 1982, at which time she was also known as Dolly Riccio.
Lyrics:
Nearly broken hearted since the day that I once started from my Wabash home,
Indiana's sweet and it's a place that's hard to beat but then I longed to roam,
My old homestead I now can see, I had a girl as sweet as could be,
Now every day I'm so lonesome it's misery.
cho: Oh, those Wabash Blues' I know I got my dues,
A lonesome soul am I, I feel that I could die.
Candle light that gleams, haunts me in my dreams
I'll pack my walking shoes - to lose those Wabash Blues.
I am just a mourner for each little nook and corner that I used to know,
No more will I linger 'cause I see a warning finger pointing where to go
There's no reason why I should stay, I'll take a hint and beat it away,
Old memories bring recollections the while I say:
PATTER CHORUS
Through the sycamore the candle light is burning bright
Memory brings the scent of new-mown hay to me each night
I am starting for that spot no need to ask me when
I'll be leaving hoofprints t'ward the old home road again.
'Xpect to see the moonshine on the Wabash any night
Seems that such a picture's bound to turn me to the right
Making up my mind to see that home so far away
But until that happens here's the best that I can say