'What's That Smells Like Fish' BLIND BOY FULLER (1938) Ragtime Blues Guitar Legend

[arkee71]

only 2 things in the world smell like fish...and one of ems fish...:0

[kiddykokane]

'What's That Smells Like Fish'

[pgregory6969]

This song is in a standard circle of fifths rag progression used in countless songs. On ukes tuned GCEA a good progression is C A9 A7 D7 G7 C; C A9 A7 D7 G7; C C7 F F7; C A9 A7 D7 G7 C. " You got to see your Mama every night". " Alice's Restaurant" "Silver Dollar song", and this one, are just a few that use this progression. Other progressions used over and over for many songs are F Dm Bb C7 and Am G F E7. Try them...you'll see.

[katrastrophy]

These cats had some balls man oh man-lol.

[Raincitywarrior]

how do u get a witch pregnant ? hell ya fuck her

[grpharmony]

a little bit of "alice's restaurant" sound...arlo have you been listening to blind boy fuller???

[ILuvMusic4real]

stankin coochie

[papalolita]

Nothing smells better than the new car smell, maybe except for that which smells like fish.

[katrastrophy]

@papalolita lol

[oknetty]

proper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[firestorm8150]

two things in this world that smell like fish,and one of them is fish!!

[theoriginalbadbob]

@firestorm8150 There are actually three things:

If you don't take a shower for a few days, your DICK will smell like fish.

[jonnyblue56]

i saw it on you tube and that was sweet

but the melody lingered from a faraway street

the words were good but not the same

it's you can't get that no more

but with a different name

that's fine with me, i won't complain

you can't find that kind of funny nowhere nomore

no you can't get that no more

[blardosplats]

@jonnyblue56

nomore?

[mpjgbx]

Hot Tuna recorded this as 'Keep On Truckin''

[420Cannabis]

@mpjgbx It sounds like the same song because the chords are the same.

[CletusColtrane]

@420Cannabis

Nah, totally different key, same intervals perhaps

[CharlesDavidPollock]

check out my channel if you like the blues

[polymath7]

This sounds quite a bit like Robert Johnson's "Got the Chilis and They're Red Hot".

[CletusColtrane]

@polymath7

Lol, Hot Tamales and they're Red Hot.........

[polymath7]

@CletusColtrane Thanks. I knew I wasn't getting it quite right but I was too lazy to check.

While I'm here, is is it just me or do you hear the similarities too?

[dirtynuke]

PUSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

[carlanthony62]

My motto has always been "If it smells like fish- eat it"

[concam28]

WHY DOSE THIS SOUND LIKE YOUVE GOT A FREIND IN ME?????

[SeagullTheFreegull]

@concam28 HOLY FUCK

[horse69outside]

mmmmmmmmmmm kipper

[johnzabecki]

Ya think he's talking about pussy?

[seymourbbest]

If it smells like fish you need to hang out with chicks that bathe-had my mouth and nose in 'em since I was 15 and aint never smelled fish yet.

[seanDF5]

there shouldn't be any advertisements for these old tunes

[MrJimmill]

If you don't know the dirty blues, check out this album.

HE GOT OUT HIS BIG TEN INCH.

Can find it on many sites. You could even buy it in a shop!

Just enjoy them anyway.

Those boys and gals could be pretty rude!

[ptbkaraoke]

Hot Tuna - Keep On Truckin' Mama. After hearing this I know what they based it on.

[Enofrappini]

.....actually fish smells like expensive perfume compared to.....

[gkopacz]

Is it or did Blind Boy Fuller have some dirty inuendo's in all of his songs? Look at the names of his songs. "Whats that smells like fish", "Please warm my weiner"

, "I want some of your pie", "Sweet honey hole", "Banana in your fruit basket", "My pencil don't write no more", and "Let me squeeze your lemon". Really?

[puccini4]

vagina smells like fish.

[TheCOMPUTERJAZZMAN]

this was later redone as "Keep on Truckin Mama" by Hot Tuna................

[420Cannabis]

@TheCOMPUTERJAZZMAN no thats another song called truckin my blues away most of his songs are just the same chord progression

[Zestybeef]

A blind man walks by a fish market. He tips his hat and says "mornin' ladies".

[Brinah]

@Zestybeef LMAOO!!!!

[PaintCanJustice]

@Zestybeef exactly what i thought

[potatoepeter1]

great, a good rhine "hecht" with potatoesalat and a beer, in the background this muisic... what give it beters... he he cheers

[2nl5]

two things smell like fish..ones fish..

[costumegal]

Fish is very good for you! 

[GrigoriZhukov]

it smell's like that it ain't no dish cousin...run away like a real man!

[sonicscreamingblue]

I bet his girlfriend was EMBARASSED AS HELL. LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[7771SB]

MAYNE!!!!! THIS SHO'L IS DIRTY!!!!!!!

[FoxyMamaRox]

This is better than a HUGE majority of the vulgar tripe out there today. I really love the sound of that guitar!

[MrMustard9091]

Alice's Resturant??????

[BuddyAllenEXPERIENCE]

@MrMustard9091, your dead on!

[MrJameswingham]

"Food if you really wants to know?"-

always thought he was singing,"Your daddy really wants to know..."

But yes fun,fun,fun....

[bakedsushi]

To set the record straight......it was vernacular used back then meaning (have u been messing around) if your loved one comes home, hair all messed up and smellin fishy, she been doing dirt. My grand pops is 93 now and still has his wit, tells me stories about wetumpka alabama, rome georgia, chattanooga tenn and many mississippi towns he rolled through as a young man. He loved a juke joint and met many of these guys...even Jimmy Rodgers who went to a few in his day. sorry spell check..

[societyforrealmusic]

Eric Clapton listened to him a lot

[downhill240]

LOL



[brianpage100]

Mornin' ladies!

[rbertagopetah13]

"If it smells like fish its a dish if it smells like colonge leave it alone" (However, a great post!)

[bigdjindustriez]

I have no idea how these guys got away with this shit, but it's hilarious. This is right up there with "please warm my weiner" and "banana in your fruit basket".

[rickfan1964]

i would love to hear David Lee Roth cover this!!! lol!!! ;)

[rickfan1964]

what's that smell like fish??? booty if you really wants to know!!! lmao!!! ;)

[rickfan1964]

i don't know any black guys that like to eat at the 'Y'!! haha!!! ;)

[rickfan1964]

that's what you call...POO-TANG!!!!! HAHA!!! ;)

[rickfan1964]

they say if you're blind, your other senses are sharper. ;)

[Bobjb999]

Odd, ain't it, how a legged land mammal, a pussy-cat,  can small like a finned fish?

[freedomland11]

damn, guys have been insulting women about there fishy smell This long??!! DAYUM... Clean that Va-Jay-Jay ladies!!

[rickfan1964]

@freedomland11 LMMFAO!!!! ;)

[Cenobite3]

This is a wonderful introduction to the genre. Thank you.

[DeusIra3]

Has anyone else noticed it's virtually identical to Arlo Guthrie's 'Alice's Restaurant'? :)

[honeybeeman]

@DeusIra3 YES and listen to "your southern can is mine" .. perhaps an identical melody

[sheilapatrick1]

@honeybeeman not even close its ragtime sounds like the same style 

[honeybeeman]

@sheilapatrick1 what the fuck you talking, are you deaf

[sheilapatrick1]

@honeybeeman what are you fucking blind or just cant read.look what it says after the name of song on top of this page there wise guy.BLIND BOY FULLER(1938)Ragtime blues guitar legend

[honeybeeman]

@sheilapatrick1 ugh you trippin baby dolll! love ya, but you deaf as an old door nail! I still luv you crazy gal!

[sheilapatrick1]

@honeybeeman for one this is a man im on my wifes account we share it.. google it you will see its ragtime

[honeybeeman]

@sheilapatrick1 well my boy I don't care what it is ragtime or no time , the melody and chord progression sound A LOT like your southern can is mine, try singing it along even the lyrics to southern can is mine fit with the rythm of the song. come on babydoll, get a grip!

[horlacsd]

@honeybeeman

all the folk standards repeat! ex. willie mctell "Searchin the desert" & skip james "Crow jane"

It's so good cuz once you get the one down, you just tweak the style and expression and get a totally different song!

[honeybeeman]

@horlacsd yah! learn a three chord progression and you can play ten amazing blues songs, yeh, pardy on my man.

[420Cannabis]

@honeybeeman All old ragtime songs sound the same because they're almost all the same chord progression.

[honeybeeman]

@420Cannabis I wouldn't get that general and say ALL sound the same, but there is sure a lot of borrowing and imitation, just imagine if musicians now days borrowed melodies as much as bluesmen use to , there would be a lot of suing going on. fuckin crazy!

[imsweetasallheezy]

@honeybeeman nah man u cant say there was more imitation back then music was just a lot more limited ppl were just learnin the guitar n thats all u hear in a lot of the old blues songs...the stories behind the songs and the way they sing em is what makes the blues. nowadays gimmicks make music n its sad. these dudes werent singin to plz the public cuz back then there wasnt much media to get it to the public they played in bars n stuff like that infront of a couple dozen ppl

[sixsixxsixxxx]

@imsweetasallheezy no wrong "nowadays" people use bass, guitar, piano, drums just like always...you are just lumping today's pop (and really just one type of pop) with everythingout there now to glorify the past, which is not only silly but inaccurate as hell...amazing how people, no matter what it is, have this stupid and ridiculous need to make the past "the good old days" and evey generation since adam and eve does it and it's usually 75% complete bullshit just like your statement above

[imsweetasallheezy]

@sixsixxsixxxx well when I said nowadays I feel as though I used it accuratley. So by saying that my statement was wrong yo're saying that the music industry hasn't boomed and changed dramatically since the 20's-40's. And you're also saying that record labels and producers back then had just as much push and pull over there musicians as they do nowadays. I'm not saying that no musicians back in the day ever sold out. What I am saying is that the media has completey changed the music indstrysince

[MrChillin65]

cool...

[JohnVasco]

From the first time I ever heard this, I thought it was absolutely enormous. The fingerpicking guitar is absolutely superb.

[MrCottonmoon]

whoa this is an amazing melody. Southern Can Is Mine by Blind Willie McTell has pretty much the same melody. This version is completely radical though

[tupidterr]

A guy from Alabama, told me a long time ago;" if it smells like fish, don't go fishin"

[BiRdIeIsThEwOrDiE]

@tupidterr if it smells like salmon keep on jammin

[Warrenleem]

@tupidterr - wise advice indeed

[browniemcgheeggallin]

is this song about dirty pussy?

[sopaman1234]

@browniemcgheeggallin HELL FUCKING YEAH XD

[striprman]

What's that smell like fish, mama?

Food, if you really wants to know.

What's that smells like fish, baby?

Food, if you really wants to know.

Smell like sardines and it ain't in no can.

Same doggone thing you chucked at the other man.

What that smell like fish, mama?

Food, if you really wants to know, I mean,

Food, if you really want to know.

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

this is the old ragtime-blues that I love so much,

thanks my friend

[striprman]

"What's that smell like fish, mama?"

"Food, if you really want to know."

"What's that smell like fish, baby?"

"Food, if you really wants to know."

"Smell like puddin' and it ain't no pie.

Same thing that you know you have to buy.

What's that smell like fish?"

"Food, if you really wants to know, I mean,

Food, if you really wants to know." (Yeah.)