Baby, How Can It Be? (Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and ‘30s)

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Compiled by John Heneghan, this collection contains 66 tracks from his 78 rpm records, featuring liner notes by Nick Tosches and an illustration by R....

Compiled by John Heneghan, this collection contains 66 tracks from his 78 rpm records, featuring liner notes by Nick Tosches and an illustration by R. Crumb. The love, lust, and contempt found in the songs of the 1920s and 1930s truly shine in Baby, How Can It Be? These recordings, handpicked by John Heneghan, overflow with cooing, kissing, greed, profanity, and violence, capturing the essence of that era's insatiable desires.

1. Bo Carter – "Baby, How Can It Be?”
2. Mississippi Maulers – "My Angeline”
3. McGhee & Welling – “I Wants My Lulu”
4. Norridge Mayhams and His Barbecue Boys – "If I Had My Way”
5. “Dock” Walsh –"We Courted in the Rain”
6. Joseph Falcon –" Poche Town”
7. Davey Miller – "My Pretty Little Indian Napanee”
8. Kalama’s Quartette – "Hapa Haole Hula Girl”
9. Oscar Ford – "Sweetest Girl in Town”
10. Ted Lewis and His Band – "I’m Crazy ’Bout My Baby”
11. Taylor’s Kentucky Boys – "That’s What the Old Bachelor’s Made Out Of”
12. The Southern Serenaders – "Then I’ll Be Happy”
13. Dick Reinhart – “Always Marry Your Lover”
14. Dan Sullivan’s Shamrock String Band – "Johnny, Will You Marry Me?”
15. Eddie South and His Alabamians – "That’s What I Call Keen”
16. Memphis Jug Band – "Insane Crazy Blues”
17. Lottie Kimbrough and Winston Holmes – “Lost Lover Blues”
18. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson and His Bull Fiddle Band –"My Four Reasons”
19. Hayes Shepherd – "Hard for To Love”
20. Henry Thomas – "Don’t Leave Me Here”
21. Uncle Dave Macon – "The Gal That Got Stuck on Everything She Seen Said”
22. Kanui & Lula – "Tomi, Tomi – Stomp”
23. Bernie Cummins and His Hotel New Yorker Orchestra – "Minnie the Mermaid (A Love Song in Fish Time)”
24. Virginia Four – "I’d Feel Much Better”
25. Kid Smith and Family – "Mama You’re a Mess”
26. Harry Roy and His Bat Club Boys – “Pussy”
27. Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon – “It’s Heated”
28. George “Shortbuckle” Roark – "I Ain’t a Bit Drunk”
29. Bobbie Leecan’s Need-More Band – "Shortnin’ Bread”
30. Cripple Clarence Lofton – "Strut That Thing”
31. Eddie Peabody – "Tiptoe Through the Tulips”
32. Lonnie Coleman –" Wild About My Loving”
33. Rutherford & Foster –" There’s More Pretty Girls Than One”
34. Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra – "I’m Feelin’ Devilish”
35. Hartman’s Heartbreakers – "Let Me Play with It”
36. Cliff Edwards – "If You Can’t Land Her on the Old Veranda”
37. Frank Quinn – "Murphy’s Wife”
38. Hawaiian Beach Combers – "Queen of the South Sea Isles”
39. Clyde Evans Band – "How I Got My Gal”
40. Frank Stokes –" Nehi Mama Blues”
41. Burnett & Rutherford –" Curley-Headed Woman”
42. Laura Smith – " I’m Gonna Kill Myself”
43. Asa Martin – "She Ain’t Built That Way”
44. Cliff Edwards – "How Can You Look So Good”
45. Robert Hill – "You Gonna Look Like a Monkey When You Get Old”
46. Bill Carlisle –"I’m Wearin’ the Britches Now”
47. State Street Boys –"Sweet to Mama”
48. Dallas String Band – "I Used to Call Her Baby”
49. “Doc” Cook and His 14 Doctors of Syncopation –" I Got Worry (Love Is On My Mind)”
50. The Carolina Buddies – "He Went in Like a Lion (But Came Out Like a Lamb)”
51. Hazel Scherf –"Married Girls Troubles”
52. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra –"Some of These Days”
53. The Georgia Browns – "Who Stole De Lock?”
54. Joe Linthcome – "Pretty Mama Blues”
55. Callahan Brothers – "I Want to Ask the Stars”
56. Bertha “Chippie” Hill – “Some Cold Rainy Day”
57. Blind Lemon Jefferson – "Corinna Blues”
58. Mississippi John Hurt – "Big Leg Blues”
59. Crowder Brothers –"I Don’t Let the Girls Worry My Mind”
60. Broadway Bellhops –" Wimmin-Aaah!”
61. Mississippi Sheiks – "The World Is Going Wrong”
62. Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians – "Left All Alone Again Blues”
63. Al Trent and His Orchestra – "After You’ve Gone”
64. Fiddlin’ John Carson & His Virginia Reelers – "It’s a Shame to Whip Your Wife on Sunday”
65. Mississippi Matilda – "Hard Working Woman”
66. Macon Ed & Tampa Joe – "Worrying Blues”

Catalog Number DTD-16

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Recording Era(s)

["1920s","1930s"]

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Label(s) / Partner(s) Dust-to-Digital

Producer(s) John Heneghan, Steven Lance Ledbetter

Audio Engineer(s) Steven Lance Ledbetter

Designer(s) Susan Archie

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Additional Information

  • USA

  • English

  • Country
  • Country Blues
  • Jazz