Weed Smoker's Dream__Harlem Hamfats.wmv
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The Harlem Hamfats was a Chicago jazz band formed in 1936. Initially, they mainly provided backup music for jazz and blues singers, such as Johnny Temple, Rosetta Howard, and Frankie Jaxon for Decca Records, but when their first record "Oh Red" became a hit, it secured them a Decca contract for fifty titles.They launched a successful recording career performing danceable music.
Harlem Hamfats
Origin Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genres Swing jazz, dixieland
Years active 1936--1938
Labels Decca
Past members
"Kansas" Joe McCoy
"Papa" Charlie McCoy
Herb Morand
John Lindsay
Odell Rand
Horace Malcolm
Freddie Flynn
Pearlis Williams
In 1936, the Harlem Hamfats jazz band recorded "The Weed Smoker's Dream". The original Decca Records release listed the songwriters as "McCoy-Moran" (Kansas Joe McCoy and Herb Morand were members of the band). McCoy later rewrote the song, refining the composition and lyrics. The new tune, titled "Why Don't You Do Right?", was recorded by Lil Green in 1941,[2] with guitar by William "Big Bill" Broonzy. The recording was an early jazz and blues hit.
I played that today in the park on acoustic guitar and sang to it with a different rhythmic phrasing. Nobody knows those songs anymore. Its like you play something completly new.
Where is this park?
Sounds a lot like Do Right by Peggy Lee to me, And trust me that songs not going out anytime soon I just did it in Karaoke down at the bar here in California the other night🌬️🎶
Like A Millionaire was released first. @@fuzzyapplebong328
💖 So reminiscent of The Roxy on Danforth 'Friday Night Madness' fare in the 70's!!! Happy Canada Day 🍁 Cheers, Eh 🍁🌞💖🙃
What the Old folks use to call " the devil's music."
Their weed must definitely be better than mine. My dreams can't quite compare with this one. I loved it.
Kansas Joe McCoy is one blues great who doesn't have near enough recognition today as he deserves, the first husband of the great Memphis Minnie and when he was backing her on second guitar I feel she made her most outstanding recordings some of them are jaw dropping.
+Greg Bluesland Yeah right on brother! Kansas Joe rules, OK?
When The Levee Breaks is one that comes to my mind. Led Zeppelin later covered it.
The cartoon used for this highly atmospheric piece is a part of 1931's "Wot a Night", the first of Van Beuren studio's 'Tom and Jerry' animations. All of these are fairly surreal... It was in the 50s, after the later cat & mouse 'Tom and Jerry' were conceived, that Official Films acquired the Van Beuren library, so the original human T&J were renamed "Dick and Larry" to avoid confusion. You can find Van Beuren Tom & Jerrys on UA-cam.
Thank you. I'm now dripping with fresh culture.
Excelsior interesting fact
This era of animation is fascinating and just awesomely bizarre. Early Fleischer cartoons are amazing too. I highly recommend Swing You Sinners, and Bimbos Initiation
Thanks so much! I thought this was a Max Fleischer thing, but stand corrected!
Great song great animation
Yep, this is the good stuff right here, old-school, to the core.
Older than Dirt. Real Jazz.
Always loved this tune and that voice, brilliant, one of THE CLASSICS
Shut up you neek
Kansas Joe McCoy in vocals
Love this!!
Wow! Someone had to draw a LOT of pictures to make this clip happen
too
Excellent jazz! The real stuff
Being a lifetime weed smoker can't say I ever had a dream like this.
I was thinking the same thing.
Dream if being a millionaire?
huh. its almost as if weed makes you a drooling drone. go figure.
I don't remember my dreams unless I go a week without a smoke. They might be like this.
@@ongbonga9025 me too. Sometimes I take a break to dream. Lol.
love it
Loose sticks of tea selling in Harlem, 25th, and Lex. All the vipers gonna swing by to get some. Spark it up and then go see Cab Calloway at the Cotton Club. After that it's chicken and waffles and that Morgan Davis wine.
'ats mighty mezz...dig this jive....mmmmm
You shot me down bang bang.. we love you Sher! Good song.
sensacional !
This is totally what Benny Goodman’s Why Don’t You Do Right. must be based on. I’ve heard of lots of artists borrowing but wow.
Love it
Cool beans man
Muy bueno.
This music wants me to make patty-cake.
I dare say badly distilled alcohol is to blame here... I find that weed takes my dreams away, it doesn't give me random nightmares...
The song 'why don't you do right' by Peggy Lee sounds awfully familiar to this...
I was thinking the same thing. On Wikipedia, it says this:
"In 1936, the Harlem Hamfats recorded "The Weed Smoker's Dream". Band member McCoy later rewrote the song, refining the composition and lyrics. The new tune, titled "Why Don't You Do Right?", was recorded by Lil Green in 1941, with guitar by William "Big Bill" Broonzy. The recording was an early jazz and blues hit.
The song has its roots in blues music and originally dealt with a marijuana smoker reminiscing about lost financial opportunities. As it was rewritten, it takes on the perspective of the female partner, who chastises her man for his irresponsible ways and admonishes him to
Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
Get out of here and get me some money too"
Sounds a lot like Do Right by Peggy Lee, He quoted her Atleast twice too ode to her music💋🎶
So good
amazing
still waitin' for a part 2
my answer is "reload"
I kinda enjoyed the cartoon slightly more than the song.
I mean the animators where definitely smoking some good shit! 😂
Dope!
j adore , c est la musique de mon reve ,la nuit derniere
This feels so good on my ears and eyes when I get high
you do realize what the song is about? And it came out in 1936, kind of ironic that it is so amazing when high. Love the trippy video when high
Put your stuff on the market and make a million too !
Artifact Video
Bizarre :-)
nice
Hey,maybe one of the factories they are building to sell it could use this for advertising ( for medical purposes of course) ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!!!!!!
Haven't ever used anything.This was quirky.Very surreal.Who needs drugs???🤔
Shrooms cocaine and weed
with a couple of hits of mescaline just for fun.
This is a dark "adult" cartoon. Not American Dad or Bob's Burgers, and they're bad enough.😗
Must of Been some Good Exotic. Im in.
2!
This became Jessica’s song from “Roger Rabbit” eventually, right?
Correct. (see: lil Green: why don't you do right)
Peggy lee and then yeah!
What cartoon did the clip come from? Or was it made in present-day just for the song?
mez-mo-rizing
KANSAS JOE!
is it Kansas Joe singing this? his voice is goddamn growly, it sounds like he smoked ten Cuban cigars and drank mesquite for a week straight
i'm also realizing I've barely listened to anything by joe McCoy after 33, but he seems like he underwent some big ass changes. he has one of the sweetest voices in blues. what a man
when was the animation made and who made it
sounds a bit like peggy lee's "why don't you do right"
Why don't you do right... Lil Green
I'm here because of Jessica Rabbit & Peggy Lee....'I hit him over the head with a frying pan then stuffed him into the trunk of my car...I didn't want him to get hurt.' This recording is the bomb!
Actually, C.W. Stoneking uses similar sound and atmosphere in his records.
What's the name of the cartoon used here?
It's a part of 1931's "Wot a Night". There are multiple copies of the full cartoon on UA-cam-- enjoy!
Excelsior Thanks. I think I will.
+lynchie137 That's Tom and Jerry before they became cat and mouse :)
Not exactly-- this Tom & Jerry was completely unrelated to the later cat and mouse characters, with different studio and plotlines. Just the name was the same, and when the earlier T&J cartoons were re-released for TV they were renamed 'Dick & Larry' so people could tell which was which.
Excelsior Interesting stuff....
pretty sure there's a billie holiday song that is a copy