78 RPM - Fort Worth Doughboys - Sunbonnet Sue / Nancy Jane - Victor - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Fort Worth Doughboys
Label:	Victor
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	23653
Date:	8 Apr 1932
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Price Guide:	$483
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$483

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Fort Worth Doughboys	Sunbonnet Sue	Milton Brown	Rate
B	Fort Worth Doughboys	Nancy Jane	Milton Brown	Rate

Notes

A: mx BVE-70670-1
B: mx BVE-70671-1
Recorded Feb 9, 1932, Jefferson Hotel, Fort Worth, TX:
Milton Brown (vocal), Derwood Brown (guitar, vocal chorus on B), Clifton "Sleepy" Johnson (tenor guitar), Bob Wills (fiddle, vocal chorus on B).

Release date from 78 Quarterly No. 5, p. 74

Reissued on Bluebird B-5257 (Dec 1933), Electrodisk 2137, Montgomery Ward M-4416 and M-4757 (as by Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies), Sunrise S-3340 (Canada).

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fixbutte 28th Nov 2014		The Fort Worth Doughboys actually were the Light Crust Doughboys at that time, as two photographs show that I have added to this record. In 1930, they were hired by Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, then president of Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas, to promote the company's Light Crust Flour on the radio. Besides vocalist Milton Brown and fiddler Bob Wills, the original guitarist was Herman Arnspiger, who by 1932 had been replaced with Clifton "Sleepy" Johnson on a newly created instrument, the four-string tenor guitar. Derwood Brown, Milton Brown's brother, on guitar was an unoffical member and never got paid by O'Daniel. It is very probable that the band took the spontaneous pseudonym "Fort Worth Doughboys" for their recording session in Fort Worth, Texas, because O'Daniel did not allow them to make any recordings, and would have claimed any royalties for himself if he had known about the session. Anyway Milton Brown left the Doughboys in Sep 1932 because O'Daniel did not allow them to play dance halls and did not take Derwood Brown on the payroll as a Doughboy. About one year later Bob Wills also quit, supposedly fired by O'Daniel for heavy drinking, but, like Milton Brown, definitely dissatified with the restrictions as a Doughboy, taking the band's new singer, Tommy Duncan, with him.



fixbutte 27th Nov 2014		An early C&W supergroup, including Bob Wills and Milton Brown. This lineup, an early version of the Light Crust Doughboys, only made this one record. "Sunbonnet Sue", the presumable A-side, was credited to Milton Brown who also sang it on this recording, but actually it had already been published in 1908 (composer: Gus Edwards, lyricist: Will D. Cobb): The other side, "Nancy Jane", had been recorded two years before by the Famous Hokum Boys, including Big Bill Broonzy. Faster and tighter than "Sunbonnet Sue", the Doughboys' recording has a strong dance rhythm and slightly naughty lyrics, augmented by Milton Brown, so he also copyrighted this song in his name:

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Linked Releases

Canada - Aurora - 1933

USA - Bluebird - 1933

USA - Montgomery Ward - 1933