I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o 'This Jelly Roll

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Sheet music cover sheet from I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o 'This Jelly-Roll (1919)

I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o 'This Jelly-Roll (also I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly-Roll ) is a song written by Spencer Williams and Clarence Williams and published in 1919 by Williams and Piron in New Orleans and Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. in New York. From the 1930s onwards, it became a popular jazz standard with Dixieland and revival bands.

background

It is speculated that Spencer Williams was the sole author of the song (as well as the titles Royal Garden Blues and Yama Yama Blues, also published in 1919 ) and only shared the copyright with Clarence Williams.

The dialect-tinged song had a suggestive and suggestive text; Jelly roll was blues slang for the female sexual organ at the time. The jelly roll motif can also be found in other blues songs of the time, such as Nobody in Town Can a Jelly Roll Like Mine ( Bessie Smith , 1923), Your Jelly Roll Is Good (But It Ain't As Good As Mine) (Shelton Brooks) and Jelly Roll Blues by Jelly Roll Morton , also in Jelly Wippin 'Blues ( Tampa Red , 1928), You'll Never Miss Your Jelly till Your Jelly Roller's Gone ( Lil Johnson , 1929) and I Got the Best Jelly Roll in Town ( Lonnie Johnson , 1930).

First recordings and later cover versions

The first recordings of the song were made in 1919 by Wilbur Sweatman (Columbia), the Ford Dabney Novelty Orchestra (Æolian), Mamie Smith (OKeh) and Emmett Miller 's Georgia Crackers (OKeh), followed by cover versions that were released in the 30s and 40s -Years u. a. vom Mezz Mezzrow / Tommy Ladnier Quintet, Eddie Condon , Bud Freeman , Sidney Bechet , George Lewis , Miff Mole , Bunk Johnson , Muggsy Spanier , Pee Wee Russell , Lu Watters , Earl Hines , Fats Pichon , Claude Luter , Bob Scobey , Graeme Bell , Bus Moten and the Dutch Swing College Band . Clarence Williams himself did not record the song until 1934 (Vocalion 2805). The discographer Tom Lord lists almost 300 cover versions of the song in the field of jazz (as of 2016). In later years he was also played by Louis Armstrong , Sweet Emma Barrett , the Swift Jewel Cowboys , Cliff Bruner Lonnie Johnson / Elmer Snowden (1960), Bobby Darin / Johnny Mercer (1961), Oscar Klein and Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel ( Willie and the Wheel , 2009) covered. Van Morrison quoted him in his song He Ain't Give You None .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b David A. Jasen, A Century of American Popular Music , 2013, p. 80
  2. ^ Royal Garden Blues at Jazzstandards.com
  3. ↑ Mark Steedman points out the dialect-typical double negative and translated the title into High English as follows: I am not going to give anybody any of my jelly roll. See Mark Steedman Taking Scope: The Natural Semantics of Quantifiers (2012), 206
  4. ^ A b Erik Hage: The Words and Music of Van Morrison . 20009, page 34
  5. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series 1952, page 95
  6. ↑ Steven Carl Tracy Write Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader . 1999, p. 173
  7. ^ Between Logos and Eros: New Orleans' Confrontation with Modernity . 2006, p. 156
  8. ↑ Max décharné: Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of hipster slang . 2002.
  9. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  10. ^ Tony Russell, Bob Pinson: Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 . 2004, p. 1065