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Them Old Cowboy Songs
southendmd:
"Get hip, little dogies"!!!
I heard a strange cowboy song on the radio yesterday. It's called "Cow Cow Boogie" by Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots, from 1944.
The song was featured in the Abbott and Costello film "Ride 'Em, Cowboy", in which Ella made her film debut singing "A-Tisket A-Tasket".
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5lDpRJR6pU[/youtube]
southendmd:
Here's a version by Dorothy Dandrige, in a cute little outfit:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xovmaG9S0sQ&feature=related[/youtube]
southendmd:
I believe this is the earliest version, from 1942.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9AfqVIxEzg&feature=related[/youtube]
Ella Mae Morse, with Freddie Slack and His Orchestra, singing "Cow Cow Boogie" in this soundie from 1942.
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
The most peculiar cowboy song
It was a ditty, he learned in the city
Comma ti yi yi yea
Comma ti yippity yi yea
Now get along, get hip little doggies
Get along, better be on your way
Get along, get hip little doggies
He trucked em on down the old fairway
Singin his cow cow boogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yea
Comma ti yippity yi yea
(chorus)
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 locoweed
He's what you call a swing half breed
Singin his cow cow booogie in the strangest way
Comma ti yi yi yea
Comma ti yippity yi yea
(repeat chorus)
Sason:
"He was raised on local weed" :laugh:
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Sason on February 19, 2011, 10:45:25 am ---"He was raised on local weed" :laugh:
--- End quote ---
Actually, it's "locoweed", even stranger:
Def: Any of several plants of the genera Oxytropis and Astragalus in the pea family, which are widespread in the western and central United States and cause severe poisoning ("locoism") when eaten by livestock. Also called crazyweed.
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