Mississippi Days
Not to be confused with the 1928 show Porter Grainger wrote that starred Bessie Smith
Mississippi Days is an American song recorded by Victor Records in 1916 in Camden, New Jersey.[1][2][3] Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. in New York City published sheet music for it in 1916. Victor's catalog highlighted it as a November song.[4][5]
The song begins: "Watermelon never grew on a huckleberry vine, you won't find a snowbird nesting in the Southern climes. Where things grow they ought to be. Take them some place else and see. They'll fade away and pine and die. And that's what's wrong with me." The music is identified as a foxtrot or one-step.[4]
Victor recording
Arthur Collins performs the song with Fred Van Eps on the banjo for the Victor recording. The vocal group Peerless Quartet backs him. Al Piantadosi composed the music and Ballard MacDonald wrote the lyrics. Rosario Bourdon conducts and additional performers include vocalists Henry Burr/ Harry McClaskey, and John H. Meyer.[1] The song was also recorded on Edison Blue Amberol cylinder (record #3041).[6] The Victor recording includes sounds like birds chirping.[3]
See also
- List of Edison Blue Amberol Records: Popular Series#Edison Blue Amberols 2500–3499
- "I Miss That Mississippi Miss That Misses Me", 1918 Arthur Collins recording on Edison records
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mississippi days". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ↑ "Edison matrix 4961. Mississippi days / Collins and Harlan". Discography of American Historical Recordings.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 University of California, Santa Barbara Library Department of Special Collections (November 16, 2005). "Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project". cylinders.library.ucsb.edu.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "CONTENTdm". cdm17336.contentdm.oclc.org.
- ↑ Victor Records. Victor Talking Machine Company. 1916. p. 15. Search this book on
- ↑ "MISSISSIPPI DAYS by Collins & Harlan BA3041". YouTube. June 21, 2015.
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