Trixie Smith - Jack, I'm Mellow (1938)

Extraits du film:

Marijuana "Weed with roots in hell" (1936)

de Dwain Esper / Hildegarde Stadie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026683/

Trixie Smith was born in 1895 in Atlanta and move to New York in 1915 where she performed on the traveling African American vaudeville circuit. She made her first recordings for Black Swan in 1922 after winning a prestigious blues singing contest at the Manhattan Casino in New York.
Smith didn't record after 1925 until 1938, when she headed an all-star jazz group including Sidney Bechet and others on one recording session. But she continued to perform in musical revues, on Broadway and in several films. She died in 1943.

Lyrics:

I'm so high and so dry,
I'm sailin' in the sky,
Just smoke some gage,
Come around babe,
Jack, I'm mellow.

I'm so high and so dry,
I'm way up in the sky,
The world seems light
And I'm so right,
Jack, I'm mellow.

I'm going to put my nickel in a slot machine
And play my solid sender,
I'm going to strut, peck and Suzie-Q,
Have alone a bender,
I'm so high and so dry,
I'm sailin' in the sky,
I got my roach around
And I can't come down,
Jack, I'm mellow.

I'm so high and so dry,
I'm sailin' in the sky,
Just smoke some gage,
Come around babe,
Jack, I'm mellow.

I'm so high and so dry,
I'm way up in the sky,
The world seems light
And I'm so right,
Jack, I'm mellow.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Drugs
• Marijuana
• Weed
• Reefer
• 30s
• USA
• Blues
• Jazz

[MaceMn]

It's a damned shame people can get locked up for having fun.

[gitfiddlejim1]

@Lengo67 Can I help with the members of the harlem Hamfats ?

I will get names from my LP if you would find that useful/interisting

[Lengo67]

@gitfiddlejim1 Pretty good. I learn something every day. I never heard of the Harlem Hamfats. Linen hang low is okay, but better is The Harlem Hamfats - Don't Start No Stuff.

One thing's for sure. These oldies are better than most of the new stuff out there.

[gitfiddlejim1]

@Lengo67 Good, how about the Harlem h

Hamfats and "Let your linen hang low", a nice invite if I ever heard one

G

[gitfiddlejim1]

@krautvaffen

Disagree, I say get em orf

[Lengo67]

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Thanks again! I appreciate your help!

[Lengo67]

@krautvaffen NO! We must START this now. Um... with some restrictions on age, shape, and appeal. 8-)

[gitfiddlejim]

@Lengo67 Her Freight Train Blues is a good un.

[krautvaffen]

It causes women to want to get naked? We must stop this NOW!

[ColdChicago]

who did the film: which is pretty amazing.. 1938..... incroyable...