78 RPM - Count Basie - Fla-Ga-La-Pa / Mutton-Leg - Columbia - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Count Basie
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	37093
Date:	30 Sep 1946
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	6 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Count Basie	Fla-Ga-La-Pa	Roberts, Fisher, Alfred	Rate
B	Count Basie	Mutton-Leg	Basie, Edison	Rate

Notes

Count Basie and his Orchestra

A ("Fla-Ga-La-Pa") vocal by Ann Moore

Personnel:
Count Basie (piano, director); Joe Newman, Ed Lewis, Harry Edison, Emmett Berry, Snooky Young (trumpet); George Matthews, Ted "Mutton-Leg" Donnelly, Eli Robinson, Jay Jay Johnson (trombone); Preston Love, Rudy Rutherford (alto sax); Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate (tenor sax); Jack Washington (baritone sax); Freddie Green (guitar); Walter Page (bass); Joe Jones (drums).

A side (mx. CO 36747) recorded New York, NY, August 9, 1946.
B side (mx. CO 36704) recorded New York, NY, July 31, 1946.

BB Sep 21, 1946 Advance Record Releases
BB Oct 19, 1946 review

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xiphophilos 4th Jan 2023		A side: Lyrics: I call my Papa Fla-Ga-La-Pa, and Fla-Ga-La-Pa is his name. I call my Papa Fla-Ga-La-Pa, and he calls me the same. 'Cause I met him in Fla., Kissed him in Ga., Married in La., Settled in Pa. I call my Papa Fla-Ga-La-Pa, and Fla-Ga-La-Pa is his name. He's got a little shack in Punxsutawney, Punxsutawney, P-A. Where he lives and he dreams of Bogalusa, Bogalusa, L-A. And when he dreams of Bogalusa And it takes him back to Macon, G-A, And Macon reminds him of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, F-L-A. I call my Papa Fla-Ga-La-Pa, and Fla-Ga-La-Pa is his name. I call my Papa Fla-Ga-La-Pa, and he calls me the same. 'Cause I met him in Fla., Kissed him in Ga., Married in La., Settled in Pa. I call my Papa Fla-Ga-La-Pa, and Fla-Ga-La-Pa is his name. I call my Papa Fla-Ga-La-Pa, and Fla-Ga-La-Pa is his name. Probably not an immortal song, but it has the distinction, as Marv Goldberg writes, "that it's probably the only R&B song to mention Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania" (later famous as the location of the Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell movie "Groundhog Day"). There is a more up-tempo version by the Nat King Cole Trio, and I've added the lyrics as sung by Ann Moore here because the version all the online lyrics sites provide has nothing to do with the actual song Nat King Cole performs:



xiphophilos 4th Jan 2023		B side: