Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/ Tom Waits - "Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing" - 78RPM Record

[TheThrune]

Wonderful - Great tune to listen to on Fat Tuesday. @TheThrune

[desinger1x]

anyone knows if there is a ''studio version'' of this on youtube. i love it.

[Spacemonkey3000BC]

When I listen to this, I can see Tom just pimp strutin' away.

[pdvmorris1]

.....wow...loved it...great post!  And I wanna get one of the turntable suitcases now....

[hassledguy]

Always loved this tune. I am not sure but I think you will hear Indian Chants in some of Jelly Roll Morton's stuff which predates this. Danny Barker was such a character. This tune is more recently covered by another of his students and torchbearers, Herlin Riley the modern drum master perhaps better known for playing with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis. I think you can find it here somewhere.

[Liberaljamoke]

Waits=Genius.

Mard Gras= Happiness.

Toootie Ma = ?

If you ain't moving to this, Jack, you dead.

[trainable2000]

That song makes me want to don in a 3-piece suit and drag myself, drunk and convulsing, over a wood floor like a snake with a rusty nail hammered in it's jaw.

[hobo877]

thank you thank you thank you thank you! goes great with Jameson!

[SwampDaddy7]

Absolutely AMAZING.

[skitrees]

This is exactly why I never go to Preservation Hall anymore...they seem to have gotten the meanings of the words "Preservation" and "Gentrification" mixed up. I liked Preservation Hall much better when it was actually concerned with preserving early jazz instead of gentrifying it.

It's not that the music is bad...it's just contrary to the idea of "preservation." Check out Clint Maegden's St James Infirmary for further proof. Love Clint, but this isn't preserving early music at all.

[quixotalable]

@skitrees

Riiight...and what do preservation and jazz have in common? Except for being complete opposites, little to nothing...

[skitrees]

@quixotalable - I didn't name the hall...nor did I found the hall based on preserving a very specific niche of music. (But someone did - his name was E. Lorenz Borenstein. In fact, he, along with Ken Mills, William Russell, Dick Allen, and Allan & Sandra Jaffe founded an organization called the "New Orleans Society for the Preservation of Traditional Jazz") This history is pretty cool and shows the importance of the hall - I highly recommend researching it. Pretty cool stuff! Cheers!

[sopaman1234]

It would be very nice if they would reissue other songs by different artists on 78 rpm...

[LaGrandeBeaute]

@sopaman1234

I agree! I would like to get Jim James' two songs on a 78.

[CreativedotMedia]

"Im gonna knock on her door!!!"

[claireandmatt1]

HD quality!!!

But how could this be? :-)

[killerpimp069]

things like these makes me wish i lived in the u.s.a...

[TheNellamaria]

great as usual, our Tommasino!

[althazarr]

Will there be any 78's available without Tom Waits?

[46professor]

A song first cut by the one and only Danny Barker, in New York 1955.

[muziktrkr]

Saw it on Ebay....

[evanphi]

funky funky funky! Couldn't help but grooove man.

[LaGrandeBeaute]

Just ordered the record!

[thedirtyduo156]

I'm not much of a dancer, but my spirit refused to be modest and busted out dancing upon hearing this groove laden tune. GROOOOOOOVYYYYYY!!!!

[preservationhall]

@jpetersgoyanks The tracks are available on CD and for download. They were originally released on the Deluxe version of the February 2010 release "Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall and The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program"

[jpetersgoyanks]

@preservationhall Hey thanks man, great to know.

[jpetersgoyanks]

Great track! This is only available as a record, too bad. Hopefully TW gets back in the studio for an album of originals. His musical juices must be flowing after making this.

[sopaman1234]

@jpetersgoyanks And what's wrong with that??

[ryandueck]

this is awesome! Wow.

[seanberney]

amazing!!! when/where is it available?

[preservationhall]

@seanberney Info is above!

[genalof]

Outstanding. A Perfect Match

[tattooedfagin]

what a great track, get these guys on board for a whole album

[s2artzVidz]

gah, I wants me some of that sound, plz send Tom downunder STAT!

[wassonii]

AND HOW! Fine, fine sounds and a beautiful player, to boot!

[HistoryTours]

5*****