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Artist: Bob Brandy Label:   Torchies From Hollywood Country: USA Catalogue: A-301 / A-302 Date: 1936 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bob Brandy	Yes — Yes — Yes		Rate
B	Bob Brandy	King Solomon		Rate

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Bob Brandy (vocals), unknown trumpet, clarinet, tenor sax, guitar, and piano.

A side (ARC 301) recorded in Hollywood, ca. mid- to late-1936.
B side (ARC 302) recorded in Hollywood, ca. mid- to late-1936.

A side runout: ARC-301-A
B side runout: ARC-A302

Both sides also released as Hollywood Hot Shots 424.
A side also reissued anonymously as "Yas, Yas" on Party Record 102, Hi-Lite Records (5) 102, Novelty Records (6) NOV-1.
B side also reissued anonymously on Star Garter 1008.

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xiphophilos 12th Sep 2022		Thanks, I have now fixed the misattribution below. I had looked at both versions and must have copied the wrong link. Thanks for noticing and adding the Tampa Red version.
fixbutte 11th Sep 2022		Something else: You didn't link the well-known version by Tampa Red, but the version by James "Stump" Johnson, recorded in January, 1929 and released on the small QRS label: R. 7049 Tampa Red's version (recorded with Georgia Tom in May 1929) credits "Johnson" as composer on the label of Vocalion 1277. It is also on YouTube:
fixbutte 11th Sep 2022		Thanks, xiphophilos, for telling us about the "Yas Yas" background. I personally noticed the term for the first time, like many people of my age, in the early 1970s on the Rolling Stones live album "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!", without understanding its meaning though. I suspected it was a synonym for shouting, inspired by the Beatles "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" or something. As I found out later, the album title was actually a quote of the Blind Boy Fuller song "Get Your Yas Yas Out", released on Vocalion 04519 in 1938.
xiphophilos 7th Sep 2022		Lots of great duck noises on the Robert Crumb version, and of course wonderful banjo playing by Crumb:
cyeaman SUBS 7th Sep 2022		Robert Crumb and associates, recording as the "Good Tone Banjo Boys", also recorded a version of this song in 1972: https://www.discogs.com/release/3394920-Good-Tone-Banjo-Boys-Armstrongs-Pasadenians-Ducks-Yas-Yas-Beautiful-Missouri-Waltz
xiphophilos 7th Sep 2022		The song is also known as "The Duck's Yas-Yas-Yas". It's a so-called teasing song that avoids using the dirty word "ass" by replacing it with "Yes-Yes-Yes" (pronounced Yass-Yass-Yass) (cf. http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/EM256.html). The lyrics of Bob Brandy's version differ quite a bit from others available online, so here they are: My mama bought a rooster, she thought it was a duck She brought it to the table, had its legs cocked up. Along come the children, had their cup and a glass, Scoopin' up the gravy from its yass-yass-yass. (trumpet solo) Now me and my girllfriend were walkin' down the street, She had the rheumatism in her feet. She stooped over just to pick some grass The same pain struck her in her yass-yass-yass. (clarinet solo) My girl got a job just the other day And this is what I heard my girlfriend say: "They work you so hard and so damn fast You don't get a chance to rest your yass-yass-yass." (guitar solo, accompanied by bass) Now John Dillinger drove into a gasoline station. He said, "This looks like a good location." – "Oh, Mr. Dillinger, please, don't take my gas!" – "I'll take your gas or else your yass-yass-yass." (tenor sax solo) Here in Hollywood, there's a dance they do, I think they call it the Lindy Lou. They shake their shoulders and they shake 'em fast And when they can't shake their shoulders, they shake their yass-yass-yass. (trumpet solo) Says the little red rooster to the little red hen, "You ain't laid an egg, gal, since I don't know when. Get out in this barnyard and make it damn fast, I'm gonna get a little of your yass-yass-yass." I've been singin' this song, ain't gonna sing no more, Somebody's knockin' at my back door. So I'll get off this record and do it fast, Before you turn the dial on my yass-yass-yass. Another well-known version was recorded in 1929 by Stump Johnson: This is from the Three Peppers (1937): https://archive.org/details/78_the-ducks-yas-yas-yas_the-three-peppers-james-johnson_gbia0418800b/THE+DUCK'S+YAS+YAS+YAS+-+THE+THREE+PEPPERS.flac
xiphophilos 7th Sep 2022		A side (on Novelty Record NOV-1): Great jazz solos, by the way. If anyone can identify the musicians, I'd love to learn their names. They may have been local Los Angeles-area musicians.

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