Ted Weems And His Orchestra And Red Ingle - The Man From The South (With A Big Cigar In His Mouth)

Usually I feature old acoustic recordings from the 1900s and 1910s on a #strangeshellacsaturday
This time around I have a neat little recording here from 1947 featuring Red Ingle - a great violinist, clarinetist and saxophonist, who was a member of Ted Weems' band in the 1930s, then joined Spike Jones and his City Slickers in the 1940s before he founded his own band the Natural Seven in the 50s
But here he rejoined forces with Ted Weems again to record a song that Weems without Ingle already recorded in 1929, but this time it's Red Ingle singing here
#78rpm

[@fromthesidelines]

Recorded on January 28, 1941.
Originally released on Decca 3782.

[@Gennettor-nc8kx]

Unlike the original 1920's versions of this number, here it is sung without any humor. Intricate arrangement but otherwise boring and distinctly unfunny. Listen to Weems (and other orchestra's) version from 1929 is my advice!

[@mortonharley]

Rube Bloom and his Bayou Boys might be my favourite

[@hanseekhoff1093]

​@@mortonharley Mine too, I also like the version by Adrian Schubert and his Orchestra for Perfect which also inlcudes the hilarious verse.