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« 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?
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« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2003, 09:15:17 pm »
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« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2003, 09:23:35 pm »
I have that CD!
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« Reply #3 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.
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« Reply #4 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.
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