JAMES " STUMP " JOHNSON ( II )

  

              

Composed by St. Louis blues artist James "Stump" Johnson in 1929 (or possibly late in 1928), "The Duck's Yas Yas Yas" is an old St. Louis party song that has seemed to have been lost along with the artists who originally played the tune. Stump Johnson recorded it at least twice more before his death. Although this is the first recorded version, it was probably not the most popular. It was soon recorded by St. Louis jazz bands Oliver Cobb and His Rhythm Kings as well as Eddie Johnson's Crackerjacks, and later by Tampa Red, The Three Peppers, and King Perry. The song's legacy lies most of all in Stump's first two lines, which has variations featured in many blues and folk tunes:

"Mama bought a rooster and she thought it was a duck,

Put it on the table with its legs straight up . . ."

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Composed by James Johnson

James "Stump" Johnson:Piano & Vocals

Joe C. Stone (J.D. Short):Guitar

Recorded in Chicago, IL. Wednesday, August 2, 1933

Originally issued on the 1933 singles (Bluebird B5159) and (Supertone 3240) (78 RPM)

This recording taken from the CD "St. Louis Blues 1929-1933"

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James "Stump" Johnson (January 17, 1902 – December 5, 1969) was an American blues pianist and singer from St. Louis.

James "Stump" Johnson was the brother of Jesse Johnson, "a prominent black business man," who around 1909 had moved the family from Clarksville, Tennessee, to St. Louis, where he ran a music store and was a promoter. James, a self-taught piano player, made a career playing the city's brothels.He had an instant hit with the "whorehouse tune""The Duck's Yas-Yas-Yas", "a popular St. Louis party song". The song's title is from the lyric "Shake your shoulders, shake 'em fast, if you can't shake your shoulders, shake your yas-yas-yas."

               

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He made a number of other recordings (some mildly pornographic) under various pseudonyms.One of the more obscene songs was a version of "Steady Grinding", which he recorded with Dorothea Trowbridge on August 2, 1933; the song has the "defiant, sexually aggressive lyrics" early blueswomen were noted for, grinding being slang for sexual intercourse.

 

 James "Stump" Johnson, The Dixieland Jug Blowers