Cleo Brown - The Stuff Is Here - 1935

Flashbacks 1920's - 1940's Novelty Songs Of An Era Long Gone Bye. Reefer Songs. Cleo Brown, later Cleo Patra Brown (December 8, 1909 -- April 15, 1995) was an American blues and jazz vocalist and pianist. Brown was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and sang in church as a child. In 1919 her family moved to Chicago and she began studying piano; in the 1920s she began taking gigs in clubs and broadcast on radio. From the 1930s to the 1950s she toured the United States regularly, recording for Decca Records (among other labels) along the way and recording many humorous, ironic titles such as "Breakin' in a Pair of Shoes", "Mama Don't Want No Peas and Rice and Coconut Oil" and "The Stuff Is Here and it's Mellow". Her stride piano playing was often compared to Fats Waller.In the 1940s Brown began to shy from singing bawdy blues songs because of deepening religious beliefs, and in 1953 she retired and became a nurse.

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[eliyaguy]

Lock the windows and close the door, Start the party up once more! Hey, hey, let's get gay, 'Cause the stuff is here! Everybody grab a glass, The good stuff's about to pass, Hey, hey, let's get gay, The stuff is here! Piano man falls upon his stool, Plays that piano like he's nobody's fool! Everybody grab that glass, 'Cause the good stuff's about to pass, Hey, hey, let's get gay, 'Cause the stuff is here!

[warholsoup100]

@eliyaguy Nice touch....

[eliyaguy]

I am curious to know on what piano she is playing. the sound is so deep and versatile, it must be a great instrument, and her sound is so beautiful and colorful, I wish she had recorded some classics, I can imagine her Mozart, Schumann or Chopin were super.

[warholsoup100]

@eliyaguy I'm not sure, but it looks like she has you under her spell, like me.

[eliyaguy]

wow, wow, wow! yes I like! who's the great pianist?

[warholsoup100]

@eliyaguy Cleo "Patra" brown was a great pianist as well.

[thepixieful1]

@eliyaguy a lot of the old uprights were walnut, and they had a different tone than a baby grand. steinway still made them ten years ago, I met randy newman in the store I think he may have purchased the last one....also (not true here) but some of the beerbarrell style piano work was done on pianos with tacks on the inside hammers.

[Helenem55]

Must've been during the Prohibition days, having to lock the doors & close windows...grabbing a glass,,,LOL

[MaceMn]

The stuff is here? I'll be right there.

[corinnabambina]

Sweet:)

[eliyaguy]

@warholsoup100 yes, indeed, the mixture of refinement, eroticism, irony, enormous talent, the stuff is here!

[eliyaguy]

@warholsoup100 so here she also plays? quite impressing!