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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: side_show on September 08, 2003, 02:57:56 pm

Title: Gold tooth
Post by: side_show on September 08, 2003, 02:57:56 pm

My boyfriend and I were driving out to his folk's place out in the country and we cold only get AM stations - there was this great old time-y rock tune with the line "here comes my baby, flashing her brand new gold tooth" or something like that as part of the chorus - anyone know who sings this?

Title: Gold tooth
Post by: andalucia on September 08, 2003, 09:15:17 pm

Ask, and Google shall give.

http://www.nederpoparchief.nl/bluesbrothers/flip_briefcase.html

Title: Gold tooth
Post by: jough on September 08, 2003, 09:23:35 pm

I have that CD!

Title: Gold tooth
Post by: side_show on September 11, 2003, 04:53:21 pm

That was the Blues Brothers!!!?  It sounded like a really old man singing though!  The lyrics are definitly right though.

Title: Gold tooth
Post by: AlohaDawg on September 11, 2003, 07:24:16 pm

It might not have been the Blues Brothers, though. There are 18 versions of it it catalogued (and I think that number is low - this is kind of a "standard" blues/rock song of the era).

It was recorded by "Big" Joe Turner in 1955 ( a year or two after his "Shake, Rattle and Roll") Big Joe was sort of an innovator of the half-shouted style of blues singing. He toured with Count Basie after being discovered in a club in Kansas City where he worked behind the bar and sometimes sang to the Pianists accompaniment.

Bill Haley and His Comets cut a version in 1961; Johnny Bell did one in 1959. Jerry Lee Lewis also recorded it. I think you probably heard the Bill Haley or Jerry Lee Lewis version.