Weed Smoker's Dream -Harlem Hamfats

[MrDivedogs]

weed smokers dreem it is my dreem

[MrAliendust]

This is awesome, thank you so much for posting, really! You're awesome too for having such a good musical taste!

[rock4evr24]

I wish there was an auto repeat on youtube. then i wouldnt have to keep coming back, and keep listening.

[rock4evr24]

I love old music <3

[Timoth1983]

What a badass song

[pinstripedpants01]

I love that first image. Did you find it on Google?

[MoleDFigg]

@pinstripedpants01

No, it is my photograph of the 78rpm record in my archives & its dust sleeve.

[bryanjay1984]

the song titled caught my eye

[ondaleo]

Que voz más entrañable....Y la interpretación musical es de mi más profundo placer.

[ondaleo]

Que voz más entrañable....

[mattybock]

it just sounds to the tune that jessica rabbit was singing when she met eddie valiant.

[feliixx]

This song is also in fallout new vegas but its sang by a woman and is a cover of this i think

[DrSaiza]

haters are smoking my thumbs up blunt =(

[geofbrit59]

Love it!

[tomitstube]

what a great song!

[adsumdux]

My understanding was that Peggy Lee was covering the Lil Green version of this song. She certainly used Lil's words, though she did not sing it as well. Is it the case that Joe McCoy rewrote the song into what Lil sings? Lil's version is on Youtube if you want to hear it.

[evuhL]

Seriously??? 3 people were bold enough to ask for a kick to the teeth and no weed....

[tandmark]

When I used to walk horses 'round the paddocks at a Kentucky racetrack in the '70s, cooling them down after a race or an exercise run, this is one of the songs I would sing that used to make even the flightiest of horses go nice & calm. There's a genuine old racetrack hotwalker's secret for you.

[TrevDA9]

@tandmark I wish I grew up in those times

[micahcareyfilms]

@TrevDA9 I wish you had too! :p

[MrShreen20]

Love it!

[Watchinshadows2]

This is fantastic, thanks for putting this up!

[maltakyle]

Guessing this is an English pressing given the sleeve - Holloway Road runs from Highbury Corner up to Archway in North London.

[sambobla]

nice !!! thanks for sharing this mate :)

[killerdillr]

Thanks so much for sharing this with us

[Stoemkind]

Fay's a betting woman

She bets on every hand

She’s a trickin’ mother for you every-

where she land

Why don’t you do now

like the millionaires do

Put yourself on the market

And make a million too

[MoleDFigg]

@Stoemkind

I think that the penultimate line is not "yourself" but "your stuff" in both of your comments.

[Randidan]

@Stoemkind except he says "put your stuff on the market" !

[Stoemkind]

May's a good-lookin’ frail

She lives down by the jail

On her back though she got

hot stuff for sale

Why don’t you do now

like the millionaires do

Put yourself on the market

And make a million too

[mccoybrotherstribute]

This song was performed at the McCoy Brothers gravestone benefit concert; you can see a brief clip at my channel, or buy a complete recording at mccoybrotherstribute-dot-com. All proceeds go to buy gravestones for Harlem Hamfats core members Joe and Charlie McCoy.

[funktapus]

I love that people were getting high in the old days

[teasnax]

@funktapus ~ when/why do you think the war on drugs began? people sure were assholes "in the old days" too!:^D read The Emperor Wears No Clothes, by the late, great Hemperor, Jack Herer.

[Deckswax]

I have this on a Decca (U.S.) 78rpm but i'm guessing this Vocalion is an even older pressing.

It seems to me that the singer of this song is encouraging a woman to go and sell herself to make money instead of doing it for nothing, the 'million' that she's sitting on being her derrier.

I'm not surprised that McCoy changed the lyrics though, could you imagine Peggy Lee singing about street hustling.

And don't forget that wonderful rabid dog like solo towards the end.

Deck.

[StagTube]

The words where rewritten and used by Jessica Rabbit..... =)

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

funny awesome

[SwEeTxHeLL1]

ThanQ <3

[busessuck1]

Love that... very Cab Calloway

yu can tell by this man's voice he does indeed smoke

[gozonn]

Thanks for uploading. Superb!

[ramirov97]

ahaha jessica rabbit did this number in--who killed roger rabbit--

[Smudgefizz]

Joe McCoy wrote this tune in 1936 (his wife was Memphis Minnie, who co-wrote "When the Levee Breaks" with him in 1929, that Led Zep cover on their 4th LP). Joe later changed the lyrics to "Weed Smokers Dream" & it was released as "Why Don't You Do Right" by Lil Green with Big Bill Broonzy on guitar in 1941. Peggy Lee then covered it in the Benny Goodman Orchestra in 1942, making it famous. Peggy re-recorded versions of it in 1947 & even in the 1990's. Lots of other artists also covered it.

[MoleDFigg]

@Smudgefizz

Wow! Thanks for the definitive history.

[chuckmak1979]

@Smudgefizz This is great! Thank you much for this.

[TheFairiesofGreen]

I Love This!~so so coool

[hp2881]

Pretty crazy how everyone hears"

"Why don't you do now, like the millionaires do."

When every chorus, the dude sings,

"Why don't you do right, like the millionaires." [Whomp goes the bass drum]

People hear what they expect to hear. The brain is crazy thing.

Maybe I'm Aspergers, maybe you can't listen.

[magiclard]

So cool-Id like to hear more like this-nmes of artistes pls Thanks. Also is there such a thing as stock? music like the old 30s gangsters films only I aint been able to get any. Like in the video game Mafia. Havent been able to get hold of any.

[MoleDFigg]

@magiclard

For names of musicians, click on short summary below video.

[magiclard]

@MoleDFigg thank you very much :O)

[Ratswivwings]

thanks for this!! a fantastic song!!

[JohnnybBaseball]

This is some great stuff...thanks bro!

[wannabeactuary]

class! so original

[louis12346]

Put yer arse on market ,an make a Million2 too !

[orp26]

amazing song

[bloozmonkey111]

Great stuff!

[KatzenImNebel]

This is so great! Love it!

[bonjoyMnMl]

A version has already been covered and released - Gramophonedzie "Why Don't You" except its a cover of a cover of this. Regardless its a fantastic track for the year it was produced!!

[hypersite]

Oui mais la version Gramophonedzie "Why Don't You" est une reprise de la reprise de Weed Smoker's Dream , " Why dont you do right

[galaxyrock]

I'm gonna do a cover of this.

[Muteswan1]

Wonderful. Thankyou very much for sharing.

[littlefeetoffury]

I love this song...

[7beers]

Very, very similar to "Bei Mir Bistu Shein".

[dmzpointman]

and yes this is the original unrated version of "Why don't you do right"......prior to Miss Rabbit, made famous by Miss Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman in 1941............

[JCVDFan1]

you forgot lil green

[dmzpointman]

I think the last verse is something like this............"May's a good lookin Frail(girl).........she lives down by the jail.......on her back ...tho she's got hot stuff for sale..........why don't you do now........like the millionaires do......put your stuff on the market....and make a million too"

[SelfishRiot1]

this music is great! so bluesy

[mareggdub]

@MoleDFigg, would you please write down/post the lyrics of this recording?

Or anybody else able to do so?

Thanks so much!

[MoleDFigg]

The first verse is :-

You're sitting on a million, sitting on it every day,

Can't make no money giving your stuff away,

Why don't you do now, like the millionaires do?

Put your stuff on the market, and make million too!

(For the rest, I need help from an American viewer, as I don't get ALL the words -but the lyric, obviously, goes on in much the same way.)

[mareggdub]

Thanks, that's great! 2nd verse is hardest to understand for me, as i'm not american english native speaker too..

3rd verse: ?...she lives down by the jail

Owned a bag of dow, shes got a house too for sale.

[Marcoplo]

she's got

Hot stuff for sale.

[DanielAzawitz]

@MoleDFigg I couldn't understand the lyrics myself, but I found this on the web: Fay's a betting woman She bets on every hand She’s a trickin’ mother for you every- where she land Why don’t you do now like the millionaires do Put your stuff on the market And make a million too May's a good-lookin’ frail She lives down by the jail On her back though she got hot stuff for sale Why don’t you do now like the millionaires do Put your stuff on the market And make a million too

[panda606]

i have an album of theres if u want the link just ask..pm me

[kingoliver45]

johnny lindsay was louis armstrongs bassist in the early 30's!!!

[Grouchy2day]

He was also the bass player on the famous Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers dates in 1926 for Victor. The song was re-worked and re-titled "Why Don't You Do Right?" for Lil Green's recording, then Peggy Lee had the big hit with the song when she recorded it for Benny Goodman in 1941.

[BondoFox]

Video's a little static, but the music's great!! And saaaaay, Jessica Rabbit? Call your office! :)

[CaptBu]

Isnt this Jessica Rabbits "Why Don't You Do Right"? HAHAHA

[alycat857]

That was a basically remake. This is the original.

[CoolJack2]

Papa Charlie Jackson recorded this song in 1925, a pop standard it seems

[CoolJack2]

oops I meant to post that comment on Louis Armstrongs "Drop That Sack"

[MoleDFigg]

Don't worry, we all miss-hit the keys sometime or another!!

[rocsthedog]

this is great, just love the drumming

[MrPisster]

Hell yea. Finally I find that some one else knows about the Hamfats. this song is great. Do you have "oh red"?

[Ildah]

Can't believe this title! It's marvellous stuff.Thanks for posting it.