DON'T YOU MAKE ME HIGH

Created on 26/12/2005
Latest update on 29/11/2023

Artist: Blue Lu Barker & Danny Barker's Fly Cats
Author: Benny Carter/Danny Barker
Label: Decca
Year: 1938

With coauthor Benny Carter on trumpet. Blue Lu was Danny Barker's wife.

Covers:

1946:

Blue Lu Barker [as Don't You Feel My Leg]

1959:

Big Joe Turner

1974:

Maria Muldaur [in '92 as Don't You Feel My Leg feat. Benny Carter; in '18 title track of her Blue Lu Barker tribute album]

1984:

Dana Gillespie

1990:

Dirty Dozen Brass Band [as Don't You Feel My Leg; vocal: Danny Barker, the man who wrote this half a century ago, ("In the good old days, when porkchops were a nickel and you couldn't find a nickel")]

2006:

Van Morrison [on American version Pay The Devil cd]

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