Coney Island Washboard

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Coney Island Washboard (full title Coney Island Washboard Roundelay ) is a song written by Hampton Durand and Jerry Adams (music) and Ned Nestor and Claude Shugart (lyrics) and published in 1926.

background

On September 17, 1926, the song was recorded by the jug band Five Harmaniacs (Victor 20293), whose members had also written it. It is not known which instrument was played by each of the band's musicians; although the song became popular in the vocal version, the Five Harmaniacs played it in an instrumental version. Clyde Shugart, usually their singer, played kazoo .

Clarinetist Jimmy Lytell followed in the same year . In the United States, “Coney Island Washboard” was soon interpreted by numerous barbershop quartets and jug bands ; In the following decades, recordings of Jack Shilkret , the Swift Jewel Cowboys and Hoagy Carmichael & Matty Matlock 's All Stars were made. From the 1950s the song belonged to the repertoire of numerous Dixieland musicians and bands such as Bob Scobey ’s Frisco Band, Pee Wee Hunt , Doc Evans , Turk Murphy , theFirehouse Five Plus Two , Terry Lightfoot , Monty Sunshine , Albert Nicholas , Wild Bill Davison , Jim Kweskin Jug Band , Clancy Hayes , Tony Parenti , Beryl Bryden , Vernon Haddock's Jubilee Lovelies (1965). and the Dutch Swing College Band .

The Mills Brothers 1943

Modern jazz musicians such as David Murray ( Sweet & Lovely , 1979), The Lounge Lizards ( Live 79–81 ) and Christoph Spendel ( Cool Street , 1992) covered him. In the soundtrack of Woody Allen's film Wonder Wheel (2017), "Coney Island Washboard" was used as the theme song, in the version of the Mills Brothers from 1932 (Brunswick 1363), who had a hit with the song in the United States. The discographer Tom Lord lists around 100 cover versions of the song (as of 2018).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coney Iceland Washboard roundelay. Banjo Judy Muldawer's Site, January 1, 2018, accessed January 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Dallas Cline: How to Play Nearly Everything from Bones and Spoons to the Washtub Bass . Oak Publications, 1977
  3. ↑ a b The Five Harmaniacs at Red Hot Jazz
  4. ↑ a b c d Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 18, 2018)
  5. ^ The Mojo Collection : 4th Edition. 2007, p. 59
  6. ↑ On the A-side of the shellac record was Duke Ellington's number It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) . For the German-speaking market, the subtitle ' Die Waschemädels von Coney Island' was given on the label . See The Mills Brothers - 'It Don't Mean a Thing / Coney Island Washboard at Discogs
  7. ↑ Songs On The WONDER WHEEL Soundtrack - The Mills Brothers, Jo Stafford. Woody Allen Pages, December 14, 2017, accessed January 17, 2018 .