This song was actually a tribute to Herb Jeffries, the first black singing cowboy of the silver screen, who was known as The Bronze Buckaroo. Jeffries was a mixed race entertainer, who made four b cowboy movies for black audiences between 1937-1939. Because of segregation few whites ever saw these movies which portrayed blacks as the hero instead of the subservient comic relief, which white segregated movie goers preferred at the time. So when Ella Mae Morris’s Cow Cow Boogies hit it big on radio, whites never knew that she was singing about Herb Jeffries, but blacks knew better. The song became a hit on not only Pop but RB radio, long before Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots released their version. Ella Mae Version was so much better, I think, than Ella Fitzgerald’s, even though the song was given to her to record first.
Wow, thank you for that history. I didn't know that. I like Ella Mae's version too, of all that I listened to, including Ella and the Ink Spots, though many were still very good. I can't help but think Ella Mae, being from TX, sort of had the inside track on a cowboy song like this.
My mother saw Freddie Slack with Ella Mae Morse do this at the Apollo Theater. They went over great. The Apollo audiences appreciated talent no matter the skin color.
2years late, NO IT WAS NOT. You people are always adding race to everything. This song was made for a movie. The only main black character in it was legendary Ella Fitzgerald. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow-Cow_Boogie
I met Benny Carter in a dentist's waiting room. He was 98 years old. He was there with his wife. I recognized him. "I know you! You wrote the "Cow Cow Boogie"" I exclaimed. His wife busted out laughing. Probably the last thing he wanted to be remembered for, but he was very nice and told me all about writing it. Although its credited to Raye, De Paul, and Carter, he said it's really just his song.
The song writing team of Don Raye and Gene de Paul composed several songs, not just one. Benny Carter was a alto saxophone player, a musician, who had a partial melody in mind, but only partial. He did not compose the lyrics or complete the melody. Without Don Raye and Gene de Paul, "Cow Cow Boogie", would never have existed. Besides this, you should know that Benny Carter died at 95 years old, in 2003. Who you met at 98 years old, in a dentist office, is unknown.
@@MrRJDB1969 Dude I'm well aware of Raye/DePaul. And if I got Carter's age wrong that's no reason to impugn my integrity. Now crawl back under your rock.
@@jazmaan - Sorry, "dude", I've worked in assisted living facilities and most 98 year old couples are not sitting at dentist offices; ignoring the fact that Carter died at 95. In your initial comment, it sounded as if Don Raye and Gene de Paul were being removed from their huge involvement with the song, "Cow Cow Boogie", or that their "integrities were being impugned". They didn't lie about writing this song, they didn't need to; they absolutely deserved song composer credit. I won't be "crawling under a rock" any time soon either.
For my money this is the best version ever recorded of this classic. Ella Mae Morse was a phenomenal singer who deserves to be well remembered for her gorgeous, sophisticated vocals.
This is from the movie "Reveille with Beverly" (1943) A wildly, wonderfully entertaining movie from WWII. Ann Miller becomes a morning disc jockey for soldiers. "Reveille with Beverly" also has Bob Crosby and his Bobcats performing "Big Noise from Winnetka", Duke Ellington Orchestra performing "Take the A Train" on a moving train, Count Basie Orchestra doing "One O'clock Jump", the Mills Brothers singing a wonderfully loose version of "Sweet Lucy Brown" and even Frank Sinatra. ""Reveille with Beverly" - you must see this movie!!
1942 , July 25 Capitol Records achieved their first #1 hit with a song called "Cow Cow Boogie" by 17-year-old Ella Mae Morse, accompanied by Freddie Slack And His Orchestra. Although Ella Mae's follow-up recordings sold fairly well, she never obtained a huge following, but continued to make records until 1957.
@@cooldaddy2877 Sister Rosetta Tharpe was singing the origins of rock 'n roll music (what came to be labeled "rock 'n roll" music) when Ella Mae Morse was but a pre-teen. Ella Mae is truly an unsung talent in this genre, but let's not blow things out of proportion and deny credit where credit is due. She was not a "pioneer" or "mother" of the genere. She can't be the "mother" of a genre that was already in its formative years in African American culture while Ella Mae Morse was a baby.
@@anyaw340 How many actual uptempo R'n'R/R'n'B type songs did Tharpe do....compare....and stop listening to revisionists. Those of us who were actually around during those times have first hand experience and knowledge of who/what influenced things.
wow, first i was drawn by the voice then i saw the video. never thought she looked so pretty. what a lady~ she definitely deserves MORE recognition for her music and voice. it's awesome.
You have to watch this clip from Reveille With Beverley from 1943 on TCM in it's restored hi def audio video.. it is fantastic. I was lucky to happen upon it one night last summer. It also is the film debut of Frank Sinatra.
I had literally never heard of her until I was looking online for some LPs and I came across one of hers which I just bought on a whim...turned out to be a great record...
Forgotten because she was white. She was the best at the time and the most famous at the time. She stands head, shoulders, legs and toes above any other claimant to the title MOTHER OF R'n'R.
This is an awesome song performed by a great singer! Out on the plains, down near Santa Fe I met a cowboy riding the range one day And as he jogged along, I heard him singing A most peculiar cowboy song It was a ditty he learned in the city Ah, comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, yi, aay Get along, get hip, little doggies Get along, better be on your way Get along, get hip, little doggies And he trucked 'em on down the old fairway Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way Comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, ii, aay Singing his cowboy songs, he's just too much He's got a knocked out western accent With a Harlem touch, he was raised on loco weed He's what you call a swing half-breed Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way Comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, ii, aay Get along, little doggie Better be on your way, your way G-get along, little doggie And he trucked 'em on down the old fairway Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way Comma ti ii-yi aay, comma ti yipply ii aay Yip yip, singing his cowboy songs Yip yip as he was juggling along Yip yip, he sings with a Harlem touch Yip yip, that cat is just too much Singing his cow, cow boogie, in the strangest way Comma ti, ii, ii, ii, ii, aay Writer(s): Gene de Paul, Don Raye, Benny Carter
@@A_Pa-Plainjane You`re very welcome; thank you! I forgot to mention the arranger/piano player, F'reddy Slack; an awesome musician! I listen to this song all the time; mixing blues with a Western rhythm is obviously brilliant in this case! Peace & love
@@drivinsouth651 what a great surprise ! Always surprised when people are still keeping one eye on their comments and responding, so thanks. Somehow I started out with Leadbelly, when i first started collecting records, but revisited his song about the Titanic when the Titan mini sub with 5 lives was lost last year. You may know Jamie Brocket did a famous version of 'Titanic'. I finally got that most poor people, prob especially black folk, really did not care too much about a bunch of rich folk whose luxury ocean liner sank. I came up in a whitebread community (only black was exchange student from Uganda) so it has been a long journey to appreciate what racism has done to America...i see us all as one race, but the real enemy is seeing ourselves as entitled or privileged, and better than another group. Are you familiar with the story of Mezz Mezzrow ?
@@MrUSSAM What a strange comment! Ella Mae Morse looks - and I have no doubt was - fragrant. I am sure many women of that era were also as clean and sweet.
@@Handiman544 They had real songs to sing, not the drek produced since the mid 60s. There have been one-offs in the later decades, but for me the Golden American Songbook was the height of American music. Even blues and jazz sounded better than the recent drek. I think it was because of the firmament in which all popular music was created.
What a song and what a singer. She was great and Freddie Slack on piano was an excellent piano player especially when it came to boogie woogie style music.
Ella Mae Morse sang some superb music. The first song I heard was "Blacksmith Blues." I found it when I watched the old Disney show in the 1990s decade. "Cow Cow Boogie" sounds incredible, and whenever I feel excited about something, I will forward to this song to remember, whenever the mood leads me.
Thanks for uploading the music of Memory Lane. . . my mom used to sing this to us. Reminds me that music/musicians once had dignity and pride, rather than arrogance and drivel.
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What you are watching is the conception in 1942 of the formula for what will be known as rock and roll. A crossover of Boogie Woogie and Hillbilly music in 1945 which further transforms itself into Bill Haley's famous Cowboy Jive (Western and R&B) as Bill Haley & his Saddlemen, finally to be called Rock and Roll as Bill Haley and his Comets. That is about one decade from this recording in which Ella May Morse predicts the musical crossover in the lyrics of the song itself 1:06. Weird, just saying.
@@andreibodea6064 Could be wrong, the song may be referring to the established Western Swing from the 30s, but then again, the boogie woogie sound did not emerge in pop music until 1941. It's debatable.
My Grandmother used to play this on the piano, singing along with my Mom, who had once gone on tour singing. My Granfather had wanted to be an opera singer before ww2, but he came home and started a family instead. The 3-4 packs of cigarettes a day kept him from singing very much by the time i came along, but i can still hear his voice in my mind. My dad was an old school jazz drummer, my uncle was played drums for several old Southern rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd (just every now and then when the regular drummers couldn't). I feel terrible for people who haven't had real music in their lives. Everyone, please fight for music in schools!
Loved the eye moments ...I remember seeing ricky's mother, Harriet Nelson, singing one of her generational songs in a malt shoppe scene and having the eyes movements. Many of us Boomers 50-60s R n R were introduced by our parents to 78rpm Swing as babes n toddlers.
Fellas sure didn't need no stinking blue pills to rise to the occasion with a doll like the lovely Miss Morse around back then! Love her hairstyle too, I have always liked those 40s styles since I was a kid.
This song immortalized Herb Jeffries, the first Black singing cowboy. Unfortunately America wasn’t prepared to acknowledge she was singing about a mixed race star due to segregation taboos. Herb however lived to be over 100 years old but I don’t think he ever got his just dues as the icon he was.
Back about 30 years ago, the company I worked for set aside time for "diversity" classes. The one I went to was conducted by two Black men. After class I was chatting with one of them, and he told me that when he was a boy, he loved "cowboy" movies, but it bothered him that there were no Black singing cowboys. I told him about Herb Jeffries, whom I remembered from the 1940s as a band vocalist, but who (I learned many years later) starred in a number of low-budget Westerns with titles like "The Bronze Buckaroo". I said, "You probably won't find them at the local video rental shop, and you might have to go to Hollywood or some other place where 'special interest' videos are found, but they're probably available."
She sounds so much like Ella Fitzgerald that it makes me wonder if it's actually her singing in the version with the Ink Spots. That vibrato is on point!
If you listen to Ella Fitzgerald's recording, Fitzgerald has more texture in her voice. But Ella Mae Morse says she learned the song by listening to and imitating Fitzgerald's pre-recording for the movie it was written for. (A recording that seems to no longer exist, though you can hear Fitzgerald singing it in a recording she made with the Ink Spots two years later.) Morse is only 18 here. At the start of your career you imitate your idols. And she had the good taste to imitate the best.
Out on the plains, down near Santa Fe I met a cowboy riding the range one day And as he jogged along, I heard him singing A most peculiar cowboy song It was a ditty he learned in the city Ah, comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, yi, aay Get along, get hip, little doggies Get along, better be on your way Get along, get hip, little doggies And he trucked 'em on down the old fairway Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way Comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, ii, aay Singing his cowboy songs, he's just too much He's got a knocked out western accent With a Harlem touch, he was raised on loco weed He's what you call a swing half-breed Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way Comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, ii, aay Get along, little doggie Better be on your way, your way G-get along, little doggie And he trucked 'em on down the old fairway Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way Comma ti ii-yi aay, comma ti yipply ii aay Yip yip, singing his cowboy songs Yip yip as he was juggling along Yip yip, he sings with a Harlem touch Yip yip, that cat is just too much Singing his cow, cow boogie, in the strangest way Comma ti, ii, ii, ii, ii, aay
Tiny Bradshaw borrowed the lyrics from Cow Cow Boogie to write Train Kept a-Rollin. This was subsequently covered by the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith. Crazy!
Cow Cow Boogie Lyrics Artist(Band):Ella Fitzgerald Out on the plains down near Santa Fe I met a cowboy ridin' the range one day And as he jogged along I heard him singin' A most peculiar cowboy song It was a ditty, he learned in the city Comma ti yi yi yeah Comma ti yippity yi yeah Now get along, get hip little DOGIES Get along, better be on your way Get along, get hip little DOGIES AND He trucked 'em on down that old fairway Singin' his Cow Cow Boogie in the strangest way Comma ti yi yi yeah Comma ti yippity yi yeah (Chorus) Singin' his cowboy songs He's just too much He's got a knocked out western accent with a HARLEM touch He was raised on LOCO WEED He's what you call a swing half breed Singin' his Cow Cow Booogie in the strangest way Comma ti yi yi yeah Comma ti yippity yi yeah
The song writing team of Don Raye and Gene de Paul composed several songs, not just one. Do some research. Benny Carter was a alto saxophone player, a musician, who had a partial melody in mind, but only partial. He did not compose the lyrics or complete the melody. Without Don Raye and Gene de Paul, "Cow Cow Boogie" would never have existed.
Out on the plains down near Santa fe I met a cowboy ridin' the range one day And as he jogged along I heard him singing A most peculiar cowboy song It was a ditty, he learned in the city Comma ti yi yi yeah Comma ti yippity yi yeah Get along, get hip little doggies Get along, better be on your way Get along, get hip little doggies And he trucked them on down the old fairway Singin' his cow cow boogie in the strangest way Comma ti yi yi yeah Comma ti yippity yi yeah Singin' his cowboy song He's just too much He's got a knocked out western accent with a Harlem touch He was raised on local weed He's what you call a swing half breed Singin' his cow cow boogie in the strangest way Comma ti yi yi yeah Comma ti yippity yi yeah Get along little doggie, better be on your way, your way, Get along little doggie And he trucked them on down the old fairway Singin' his cow cow boogie in the strangest way Comma ti yi yi yeah Comma ti yippity yi yeah. Yip yip singing his cowboy song Yip yip as he was joggling along Yip yip he sings with a harlem touch Yip yip that guy is just too much Singing his cow cow boogie in the strangest way Comma ti yi yi yi yi yi yeah.
Capitol Records first million record seller right here.
This song was actually a tribute to Herb Jeffries, the first black singing cowboy of the silver screen, who was known as The Bronze Buckaroo. Jeffries was a mixed race entertainer, who made four b cowboy movies for black audiences between 1937-1939. Because of segregation few whites ever saw these movies which portrayed blacks as the hero instead of the subservient comic relief, which white segregated movie goers preferred at the time. So when Ella Mae Morris’s Cow Cow Boogies hit it big on radio, whites never knew that she was singing about Herb Jeffries, but blacks knew better. The song became a hit on not only Pop but RB radio, long before Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots released their version. Ella Mae Version was so much better, I think, than Ella Fitzgerald’s, even though the song was given to her to record first.
Wow, thank you for that history. I didn't know that. I like Ella Mae's version too, of all that I listened to, including Ella and the Ink Spots, though many were still very good. I can't help but think Ella Mae, being from TX, sort of had the inside track on a cowboy song like this.
Do you have sources that state this?
My mother saw Freddie Slack with Ella Mae Morse do this at the Apollo Theater. They went over great. The Apollo audiences appreciated talent no matter the skin color.
Yes, but don't you think that this would have been a great theme song for the Munsters?
2years late, NO IT WAS NOT. You people are always adding race to everything. This song was made for a movie. The only main black character in it was legendary Ella Fitzgerald.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow-Cow_Boogie
I met Benny Carter in a dentist's waiting room. He was 98 years old. He was there with his wife. I recognized him. "I know you! You wrote the "Cow Cow Boogie"" I exclaimed. His wife busted out laughing. Probably the last thing he wanted to be remembered for, but he was very nice and told me all about writing it. Although its credited to Raye, De Paul, and Carter, he said it's really just his song.
The song writing team of Don Raye and Gene de Paul composed several songs, not just one. Benny Carter was a alto saxophone player, a musician, who had a partial melody in mind, but only partial. He did not compose the lyrics or complete the melody. Without Don Raye and Gene de Paul, "Cow Cow Boogie", would never have existed. Besides this, you should know that Benny Carter died at 95 years old, in 2003. Who you met at 98 years old, in a dentist office, is unknown.
@@MrRJDB1969 Dude I'm well aware of Raye/DePaul. And if I got Carter's age wrong that's no reason to impugn my integrity. Now crawl back under your rock.
@@jazmaan - Sorry, "dude", I've worked in assisted living facilities and most 98 year old couples are not sitting at dentist offices; ignoring the fact that Carter died at 95. In your initial comment, it sounded as if Don Raye and Gene de Paul were being removed from their huge involvement with the song, "Cow Cow Boogie", or that their "integrities were being impugned". They didn't lie about writing this song, they didn't need to; they absolutely deserved song composer credit. I won't be "crawling under a rock" any time soon either.
To anyone wondering where this performance is from, it's Beverly with Reveille (1943) musical film.
and i wish i could see it in higher quality!
For my money this is the best version ever recorded of this classic.
Ella Mae Morse was a phenomenal singer who deserves to be
well remembered for her gorgeous, sophisticated vocals.
I like the version sung on Pee Wee's Playhouse best; but this is a close second.
Idan O'Reilly What version was played on Pee Wee?
A cute version of real cows 'mouthing' the lyrics to the song.
Ella Mae Morse and Freddie Slack definitely sing and play the best recorded and filmed version of this song; they are amazingly excellent together.
A classic from my early years; God, I'm old!
I always had a dream of singing with a full orchestra! Proud to say ella is my dads 1st cousin!🎼🎶🎙🥰
One of the most stupendous records ever made. Absolute, utter perfection. I am profoundly grateful that this video clip has also survived.
Missed opportunity for "udder perfection," Mike. (And, agreed!)
@@realjettlag clever udderance there, mate.
Cool song. it covers jazz, boogie woogie and the blues with a western swing chaser!!
@@realjettlag lol that's so wrong! Love it!
@@realjettlag It may be a missed opportunity, but there will be udders...
Cowboy meets Big Band! The best of music and themes! Nobody does it like Ella Mae Morse!
This is from the movie "Reveille with Beverly" (1943) A wildly, wonderfully entertaining movie from WWII. Ann Miller becomes a morning disc jockey for soldiers. "Reveille with Beverly" also has Bob Crosby and his Bobcats performing "Big Noise from Winnetka", Duke Ellington Orchestra performing "Take the A Train" on a moving train, Count Basie Orchestra doing "One O'clock Jump", the Mills Brothers singing a wonderfully loose version of "Sweet Lucy Brown" and even Frank Sinatra. ""Reveille with Beverly" - you must see this movie!!
That is a great recommendation!
This music is before my time, but I love it! Some of the best music is Swing!
1942 , July 25
Capitol Records achieved their first #1 hit with a song called "Cow Cow Boogie" by 17-year-old Ella Mae Morse, accompanied by Freddie Slack And His Orchestra. Although Ella Mae's follow-up recordings sold fairly well, she never obtained a huge following, but continued to make records until 1957.
I really love the way she moved her eyes and what a great singer..
She was the best! And was one of the rock and roll pioneers!
The true "mother" of R'n'R.
@@cooldaddy2877 Not by a long shot. That title belongs to Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
@@cooldaddy2877 Sister Rosetta Tharpe was singing the origins of rock 'n roll music (what came to be labeled "rock 'n roll" music) when Ella Mae Morse was but a pre-teen. Ella Mae is truly an unsung talent in this genre, but let's not blow things out of proportion and deny credit where credit is due. She was not a "pioneer" or "mother" of the genere. She can't be the "mother" of a genre that was already in its formative years in African American culture while Ella Mae Morse was a baby.
@@anyaw340 How many actual uptempo R'n'R/R'n'B type songs did Tharpe do....compare....and stop listening to revisionists. Those of us who were actually around during those times have first hand experience and knowledge of who/what influenced things.
@@anyaw340 ok, so lets go back to the first Stone Age man who hit a bone against another bone. You havnt got a clue.
Damn, she's good. And beautiful.
How right you are !!
Ella Mae was a gifted hit maker and a socko performer. What a voice! What style! And she was beautiful and stylish too.
Not only Ella Mae Morse was fantastic, but her band was really grand. The only thing that I would not like is that they all are dead.
This is simply the BEST boogie-woogie song AND performance in history.
Ella and Freddie Slack's orchestra had the hit recording in late 1942, and appeared to perform it in "Reveille With Beverly".
wow, first i was drawn by the voice then i saw the video. never thought she looked so pretty. what a lady~ she definitely deserves MORE recognition for her music and voice. it's awesome.
Nothing but Class and Elegance and Heavenly Music here!
Pure gold!
I’ve been burning this up on iTunes
Never dreamed there was a video.
You have to watch this clip from Reveille With Beverley from 1943 on TCM in it's restored hi def audio video.. it is fantastic. I was lucky to happen upon it one night last summer. It also is the film debut of Frank Sinatra.
@@shotocam i wish there was a way to download that, id wanna have it to save to playlists and such.
Among the greatest and least remembered. Why? The equal of any performer of the swing era!
I had literally never heard of her until I was looking online for some LPs and I came across one of hers which I just bought on a whim...turned out to be a great record...
Forgotten because she was white. She was the best at the time and the most famous at the time. She stands head, shoulders, legs and toes above any other claimant to the title MOTHER OF R'n'R.
Incredibly relaxed and professional performance from the 19yo Ella Mae.
She was one of he first white singer to have a number one hit on the black charts (then called the Harlem Hit)
I'm not sure who recorded it first (not that it matters), but Dorothy Dandridge did an outstanding version of this song too. Worth a look.
Top voice, top class, top band. Top of the top. This is really hep.
You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe !!
Oh Ella Mae Morse always heard you sing over the radio, first time seen you in 2018 you are fab in every way. Love you.
This is an awesome song performed by a great singer!
Out on the plains, down near Santa Fe
I met a cowboy riding the range one day
And as he jogged along, I heard him singing
A most peculiar cowboy song
It was a ditty he learned in the city
Ah, comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, yi, aay
Get along, get hip, little doggies
Get along, better be on your way
Get along, get hip, little doggies
And he trucked 'em on down the old fairway
Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, ii, aay
Singing his cowboy songs, he's just too much
He's got a knocked out western accent
With a Harlem touch, he was raised on loco weed
He's what you call a swing half-breed
Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, ii, aay
Get along, little doggie
Better be on your way, your way
G-get along, little doggie
And he trucked 'em on down the old fairway
Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti ii-yi aay, comma ti yipply ii aay
Yip yip, singing his cowboy songs
Yip yip as he was juggling along
Yip yip, he sings with a Harlem touch
Yip yip, that cat is just too much
Singing his cow, cow boogie, in the strangest way
Comma ti, ii, ii, ii, ii, aay
Writer(s): Gene de Paul, Don Raye, Benny Carter
Thank you most kindly, Mister
@@A_Pa-Plainjane You`re very welcome; thank you! I forgot to mention the arranger/piano player, F'reddy Slack; an awesome musician! I listen to this song all the time; mixing blues with a Western rhythm is obviously brilliant in this case! Peace & love
@@drivinsouth651 what a great surprise ! Always surprised when people are still keeping one eye on their comments and responding, so thanks.
Somehow I started out with Leadbelly, when i first started collecting records, but revisited his song about the Titanic when the Titan mini sub with 5 lives was lost last year. You may know Jamie Brocket did a famous version of 'Titanic'. I finally got that most poor people, prob especially black folk, really did not care too much about a bunch of rich folk whose luxury ocean liner sank.
I came up in a whitebread community (only black was exchange student from Uganda) so it has been a long journey to appreciate what racism has done to America...i see us all as one race, but the real enemy is seeing ourselves as entitled or privileged, and better than another group. Are you familiar with the story of Mezz Mezzrow ?
i love the way women looked and sounded in the 40s
they might not of smelled that good though ? thank God "smell-a-vision" hasn't been invented
Yeah...people could actually sing. Today all they do is yell on key.
So much class . This is what Men truly desire.
@@MrUSSAM What a strange comment! Ella Mae Morse looks - and I have no doubt was - fragrant. I am sure many women of that era were also as clean and sweet.
@@Handiman544 They had real songs to sing, not the drek produced since the mid 60s. There have been one-offs in the later decades, but for me the Golden American Songbook was the height of American music. Even blues and jazz sounded better than the recent drek. I think it was because of the firmament in which all popular music was created.
Beautiful song and singer.♥
17 years old in this video! Beautiful singing.
Just beautiful . . a classic.
I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion !!
What a song and what a singer. She was great and Freddie Slack on piano was an excellent piano player especially when it came to boogie woogie style music.
That is music and singing. One can UNDERSTAND ALL of the lyrics.
I was raised on loco-weed too; lol!
"comma-ta-yip-tlee-aye-ay" ah yes those lyrics that make sense and are understandable
@@TakeMeOffYourMailingList Well . . one out of two ain't bad . .
Still a teenager here, and killing it!
wow that was fun ,i can't believe its taken me 55 years to hear that very groovie song
I get strange shivers up my spine when Ella rolls her eyes.
Ella Mae Morse sang some superb music. The first song I heard was "Blacksmith Blues." I found it when I watched the old Disney show in the 1990s decade. "Cow Cow Boogie" sounds incredible, and whenever I feel excited about something, I will forward to this song to remember, whenever the mood leads me.
Me too CK. I'm here now getting a morale boosting listen, just like I do with great classical pieces.
@@henrybrowne7248 Thank you for typing to me.
Way More charming than today's female singers. Ella naturally sounded great, and had to be distracting those guys !
Loving it. Western Swing with a spoonful of R&B
Get along, get hip, little doggie.. I love this song.
Believe it or not, this became source for "Train Kept a Rollin" later recorded by Tiny Bradshaw in 1951 and latter by the Yardbirds and Aerosmith.
Just wonderful! I'm sorry I wasn't even born yet. Ella Mae Morse is just the best!
Freddie Slack was fantastic. Not many pianists can modulate boogie up a half tone without losing the left hand.
I loved it when Dorothy Dandridge did this song. She gave it a yourh vibem
My favourite version! so relaxed
Indeed !
Thanks for uploading the music of Memory Lane. . . my mom used to sing this to us. Reminds me that music/musicians once had dignity and pride, rather than arrogance and drivel.
Awesome voice, love the trombone solo!
Indubitably !!
It's Bruce Squires.
Love it!!!!! Thanks Stephen, et al :o)
I LOVE THIS GREAT INSTRUMENTAL SONG FROM LOVELY ELLA MAE!
This is absolutely the best version sang by a Texan!
RESPETO TU OPINIÓN.-SALUDOS DESDE''BUENOS AIRES--ARGENTINA''.-
@@leonblum7898 Simplemente por que era deTexas, no quiere decir que no cantaba bien. Jimmy Dorsey y otras orquestas la emplearon! Feliz 2021.-
@@bobboscarato1313 YO NO DIJE QUE CANTARA BIEN O MAL.SIMPLEMENTE''RESPETO TU OPINIÓN''SI ME PREGUNTAS ''CUALES SON TUS CANTANTES DE JAZZ PREFERIDAS''ÉSO SÍ TE LO PUEDO CONTESTAR.-FELIZ 2021 PARA VOS TAMBIEN.-
@@leonblum7898 Que???
This song was # one for the year 1943
What a charming voice along with a talent in giving a song it's true spirit.
What you are watching is the conception in 1942 of the formula for what will be known as rock and roll. A crossover of Boogie Woogie and Hillbilly music in 1945 which further transforms itself into Bill Haley's famous Cowboy Jive (Western and R&B) as Bill Haley & his Saddlemen, finally to be called Rock and Roll as Bill Haley and his Comets. That is about one decade from this recording in which Ella May Morse predicts the musical crossover in the lyrics of the song itself 1:06. Weird, just saying.
You seem to be quite knowledgeable
@@andreibodea6064 Could be wrong, the song may be referring to the established Western Swing from the 30s, but then again, the boogie woogie sound did not emerge in pop music until 1941. It's debatable.
Perfection! Thank you so much!
You just need to add Freddie Slack, band leader (at piano), as part of the credits.
My Grandmother used to play this on the piano, singing along with my Mom, who had once gone on tour singing. My Granfather had wanted to be an opera singer before ww2, but he came home and started a family instead. The 3-4 packs of cigarettes a day kept him from singing very much by the time i came along, but i can still hear his voice in my mind. My dad was an old school jazz drummer, my uncle was played drums for several old Southern rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd (just every now and then when the regular drummers couldn't). I feel terrible for people who haven't had real music in their lives. Everyone, please fight for music in schools!
Loved the eye moments ...I remember seeing ricky's mother, Harriet Nelson, singing one of her generational songs in a malt shoppe scene and having the eyes movements. Many of us Boomers 50-60s R n R were introduced by our parents to 78rpm Swing as babes n toddlers.
Train Kept A' Rollin' was based on this song according to its composer, Tiny Bradshaw.
I love that gal !!!
Pianist Freddie Slack and his orchestra!
They were TOPS !!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this with us!!
I agree 100 per cent !!
She was a real dish! 😜
She can serve me a malted milk any ol' time... 😎
You can say that again !! Hubba hubba !!
Fellas sure didn't need no stinking blue pills to rise to the occasion with a doll like the lovely Miss Morse around back then! Love her hairstyle too, I have always liked those 40s styles since I was a kid.
I believe..first hit for Capitol Records.
"...a swingin' half-breed." Ha, ha. The good ol' days before political correctness. Man, I love her voice. Syrupy sexy swing.
Thank you, Lexicon Valley, for sending me here :)
Man she is 🔥
I was thinking the same thing.....
This song immortalized Herb Jeffries, the first Black singing cowboy. Unfortunately America wasn’t prepared to acknowledge she was singing about a mixed race star due to segregation taboos. Herb however lived to be over 100 years old but I don’t think he ever got his just dues as the icon he was.
Back about 30 years ago, the company I worked for set aside time for "diversity" classes. The one I went to was conducted by two Black men. After class I was chatting with one of them, and he told me that when he was a boy, he loved "cowboy" movies, but it bothered him that there were no Black singing cowboys. I told him about Herb Jeffries, whom I remembered from the 1940s as a band vocalist, but who (I learned many years later) starred in a number of low-budget Westerns with titles like "The Bronze Buckaroo". I said, "You probably won't find them at the local video rental shop, and you might have to go to Hollywood or some other place where 'special interest' videos are found, but they're probably available."
That's "LOCO WEED". Fabulous video. Swingin' song!
She sounds so much like Ella Fitzgerald that it makes me wonder if it's actually her singing in the version with the Ink Spots. That vibrato is on point!
If you listen to Ella Fitzgerald's recording, Fitzgerald has more texture in her voice. But Ella Mae Morse says she learned the song by listening to and imitating Fitzgerald's pre-recording for the movie it was written for. (A recording that seems to no longer exist, though you can hear Fitzgerald singing it in a recording she made with the Ink Spots two years later.) Morse is only 18 here. At the start of your career you imitate your idols. And she had the good taste to imitate the best.
@@charliehowell6704 hear! hear!
@@arlenecerf8833 Or... "Hear here!" lol
@@nobody7817 😂😂😂
Completly different, but quiet good as well.
Jesus christ she is beautiful!!!!
Talk about a walk down "Memory Lane"! Thanks for uploading this!
Damn! What a babe!
One of the very first recordings on the Capitol label.
You are so right ! It was the label's first huge hit & helped them get established financially !!
Out on the plains, down near Santa Fe
I met a cowboy riding the range one day
And as he jogged along, I heard him singing
A most peculiar cowboy song
It was a ditty he learned in the city
Ah, comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, yi, aay
Get along, get hip, little doggies
Get along, better be on your way
Get along, get hip, little doggies
And he trucked 'em on down the old fairway
Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, ii, aay
Singing his cowboy songs, he's just too much
He's got a knocked out western accent
With a Harlem touch, he was raised on loco weed
He's what you call a swing half-breed
Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti, ii, yi, aay, comma ti, yipply, ii, aay
Get along, little doggie
Better be on your way, your way
G-get along, little doggie
And he trucked 'em on down the old fairway
Singing his cow, cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti ii-yi aay, comma ti yipply ii aay
Yip yip, singing his cowboy songs
Yip yip as he was juggling along
Yip yip, he sings with a Harlem touch
Yip yip, that cat is just too much
Singing his cow, cow boogie, in the strangest way
Comma ti, ii, ii, ii, ii, aay
Thank you from Amsterdam.
@stefanschutz5166 welcome brother
This is COOL!!!
Listened to her sing Mr five by five now I am a big fan ❤
Tiny Bradshaw borrowed the lyrics from Cow Cow Boogie to write Train Kept a-Rollin. This was subsequently covered by the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith. Crazy!
I think I'm about the youngest kid who listens and GREATLY LOVE this
Suna Yamasaku same
Cow cow boogie, Cow cow boogie never changes.
From a movie with Ann Miller, Reville with Beverly.
Wasn't this in Reveille with Beverly?
Yes, this is from the movie.
HOT Rockin, Ms Ella Mae Morse, born n raised Mansfield, MidTex.
Excelente , el sonido que nunca pasa de moda, movedizo, agradable y con mucho Swing.😊
you asked for the ultimate--here it is
She's rather gorgeous
absolutely priceless lol cha cha
Many versions this is the smoooothist!
Recorded in 1942. She was 18 years old here - and had been singing professionally for 4 years already.
December '42. She was 19yo.
Cow Cow Boogie Lyrics
Artist(Band):Ella Fitzgerald
Out on the plains down near Santa Fe
I met a cowboy ridin' the range one day
And as he jogged along I heard him singin'
A most peculiar cowboy song
It was a ditty, he learned in the city
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah
Now get along, get hip little DOGIES
Get along, better be on your way
Get along, get hip little DOGIES
AND He trucked 'em on down that old fairway
Singin' his Cow Cow Boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah
(Chorus)
Singin' his cowboy songs
He's just too much
He's got a knocked out western accent with a HARLEM touch
He was raised on LOCO WEED
He's what you call a swing half breed
Singin' his Cow Cow Booogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah
Sammy Davis told her, "I thought you were one of us". She said "I am Sammy"
great 'bone solo! take me back, baby... ^..^
amazing ❤
what a passion on her face...
The song writing team of Don Raye and Gene de Paul composed several songs, not just one. Do some research. Benny Carter was a alto saxophone player, a musician, who had a partial melody in mind, but only partial. He did not compose the lyrics or complete the melody. Without Don Raye and Gene de Paul, "Cow Cow Boogie" would never have existed.
Out on the plains down near Santa fe
I met a cowboy ridin' the range one day
And as he jogged along I heard him singing
A most peculiar cowboy song
It was a ditty, he learned in the city
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah
Get along, get hip little doggies
Get along, better be on your way
Get along, get hip little doggies
And he trucked them on down the old fairway
Singin' his cow cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah
Singin' his cowboy song
He's just too much
He's got a knocked out western accent with a Harlem touch
He was raised on local weed
He's what you call a swing half breed
Singin' his cow cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah
Get along little doggie, better be on your way, your way,
Get along little doggie
And he trucked them on down the old fairway
Singin' his cow cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yeah
Comma ti yippity yi yeah.
Yip yip singing his cowboy song
Yip yip as he was joggling along
Yip yip he sings with a harlem touch
Yip yip that guy is just too much
Singing his cow cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yi yi yi yeah.
Holy shit this incredible
Uncle Rusty. This one's for you !!
Freddie Slack mirrored the legendary Albert Ammons in a very Good way.
Some real hep cats!!!
Solid !!
Why are 40s women so attractive