One Mint Julep: The Clovers
According to Wiki, this song was released in March of 1952 and was one of the first "drinking songs" to become a hit and one of the first to feature a tenor sax solo.
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April 25, 2010 at 1:31 pm
yousendit link:
https://download.yousendit.com/THE2TG0rYStvQnMwTVE9PQ
April 25, 2010 at 4:59 pm
My sister heard this song first when I was a little boy. She was still in the “pretty music” (Sinatra, Perry Como, et al) school and just made fun of it. So did I, of course, being 6 and not knowing any better. This is the first time since then I’ve heard it!
April 25, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Ralph,
Do you like it now?
Wiki had more to say about this song. “Stylistically the The Clovers were moving away from the sentimental lyrics of the romantic doo-wop group songs and adapting a cooler group style, emphasizing rhythm more, nearing the style of a jump blues combo. This is one of the best of the many popular R&B drinking songs in the 1940s and 1950s. It was the first of several successful up tempo drinking songs by Toombs on the horrible effects of alcohol, and who went on to write “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer” for Amos Milburn, “Fat Back and Corn Likker” for Louis Jordan and “Nip Sip” for The Clovers.”
April 25, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Yes I do like it! Sorry, I should have said that in the first place. As I listened I was thinking how, for 1952, they sounded so much like all the groups that would come a little later–or more properly, that we white kids would become aware of in just a few years….
April 25, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Ralph,
I sort of figured you did. You’re right about their sound being different, one we’d come to know.