WILLIE THE WEEPER
Created on 03/06/2021Latest update on 03/06/2024
Artist: Doc Cook & his 14 Doctors of Syncopation
Author: Walter Melrose/Grant Rymal/Marty Bloom
Label: Columbia
Year: 1927
With Freddie Keppard (cornet).
Covers:
- 1927:
Ernest Rogers [as Willie The Chimney Sweeper]
- 1927:
King Oliver [top 20 US]
- 1927:
- 1927:
- 1949:
- 1950:
- 1959:
- 1961:
- 1968:
- 1982:
Fondy Riverside Bullet Band [on lp Red Roses For A Blue Lady]
- 2007:
- 2014:
Some of the lyric lines were recycled in Minnie The Moocher.
