78 RPM - Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - Milk Cow Blues / Sweet Jennie Lee - Tiffany Music

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
Label:	Tiffany Music
Country:	USA
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Date:	1946
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys	Milk Cow Blues	Cocomo Arnold	9.0 Rate
B	Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys	Sweet Jennie Lee	Walter Donaldson	Rate

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Vocal by Tommy Duncan
Recorded at Universal Recorders, Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, CA
mx: SSR 602 Re (A), 25 Mar 1946
mx: SSR 603 Re (B), 20 May 1946

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fixbutte 9th Jun 2015		This version of “Milk Cow Blues” featuring Tommy Duncan’s versatile vocal (with the bandleader’s wisecracks) and Junior Barnard’s “dirty” electric guitar, is also on YouTube: There is also an interesting comment there by Bob Wills specialist, radiobob805: This was cut for Tiffany transcriptions. Bob liked it so well he wanted to release it as a record. Notice the scratchy beginning? That’s from being played so often. Bob eventually recorded the song for Columbia, changing the title to the “Brain Cloudy Blues.” He did another version of Milk Cow for Tiffany as well, but it’s not as good. Notice the mention of butter? Butter was rationed during World War II, so it was scarce. Thus Bob talks as though he never sees any.



fixbutte 9th Jun 2015		This is the only 78rpm record from the Tiffany Music Company, Bob Wills’ own enterprise, founded to create transcribed Bob Wills radio shows. It is not clear if a commercial release of Tiffany 78rpm records was planned at the time. Anyway only about 10 copies of this record have surfaced (or survived). For more information see http://www.tiffanytranscriptions.com/wordpress/tiffany-music-company/. The Texas Playboys never made a commercial recording of “Milk Cow Blues”, written and made popular by blues singer and guitarist Kokomo (not “Cocomo”) Arnold (released on Decca 7026, Nov 1934). However, Bob Wills' younger brother, Johnnie Lee Wills, had a substantial hit with “Milk Cow Blues” (Decca 5985, Sep 1941), and of course the Texas Playboys' "Brain Cloudy Blues", recorded on 5 Sep 1946 and released on Columbia 37313 in Mar 1947, was nothing but an updated version of “Milk Cow Blues”, only that it was credited to Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan. Besides, all three recordings by Johnny Lee and Bob Wills feature the fuzzy electric guitar of Lester Barnard Jr. (aka “Junior” or “Fat Boy”) who unfortunately died in a car crash in Apr 1951.

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