lil green weedsmokers dream (why don't you do right)

[bye0bye0birdy]

I fell for your jive and I took you in.. now all you got to offer me is a drink of gin..

[y0unescrb]

pfffff i whant sleep



[MrNarrowboat]

Great version. Much earthier and heartfelt than Peggy Lee.

[miltsar]

BRILLIANT !!!!!!

[mutleybird]

This version was in the movie "Diner"

[motekhall]

Thanks for this post ! Love the famous Peggy Lee/ Goodman version [ hip and swinging like a m....] but this is on another level ! Wonderful.

[kudu42]

This track can be found on an album called Honeydipper - I just love her voice and the Kathleen Turner version sounds so crude after this version!

[Ukimix]

thx for the post. Really nice version, and the original one, i think.

[Expectadorable]

Gracias por la grabación. Me alegra poder recuperarla en Internet

[blzebra999]

one of the greatest classic blues songs ever. EVER. mmm..

[Mrilovegaga]

RIP lil green and peggy lee

[wiscsuzski]

Try also Lil's "Knockin' Myself Out"

[busessuck1]

awsome... though i reccomend checkin out the harlem hamfats own version if you can find it

[MrJezno]

Lil's my favourite!!! Anyone got her recording of 'In the Dark' that she wrote with Big Bill Broonzy?

[wiscsuzski]

@MrJezno RE "Romance In The Dark"

This is not a version i have, but here's one

watch?v=o9PZi-KlSmQ

and a Cyndi Lauper cover

watch?v=ZW3K_mnPvWU

[galaxyrock]

This song is amazing.

[xaido17]

love it

[wannabeactuary]

class!

[AvrilLavignesDad]

Thanks for posting this. I looked on YouTube to find this last year and had no luck, so it was a nice surprise to see it had suddenly appeared. This is the first time I've managed to hear Lil Green's original version with these lyrics :-)

[shelovesrb7777]

My mother used to talk about this song. It was popular during her young adulthood.

[mikittyXD]

Thank you for this post, it's very hard to find this song by lil green.

[derrickdowland]

Thanks for posting this. I believe this is the 1941 recording which Peggy Lee was playing over and over in her trailer when Benny Goodman knocked on her door and said "You really like that song, don't you?" She said "I love it!" He said "If we make an arrangement of it, would you like to record it?" She said "Yes!" and their 1943 record of it reached No. 4 on the charts, making both her and the song popular. See under the title "Why Don't You Do Right" For a clip of cute Peggy doing it :)

[AvrilLavignesDad]

I've never heard the story about how Peggy Lee came to record it with Goodman. Thanks for that info :-)

[jzzlvrmee]

Thank you for posting this!!