Buster Brown - Raise A Ruckus Tonight

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[canlitgal]

Check out Down The Ohio by The New Christy Minstrels - same basic tune. There seems to be many versions of this.

[9thWardBluezBox]

@canlitgal Very common in those days. With all the hoopla over "Surfin' USA" and "Sweet Little Sixteen", nobody tried any sort of move on "Help Me Rhonda" since everybody stole it ........yeah fans, including Buster Brown.

[bluelouwwoz]

Ah, another old favourite.

[9thWardBluezBox]

@bluelouwwoz Gotta love da Buster!

[Azizip17]

One more comment-I've been trying to figure out what this song's tune reminds me of. It just occured to me that this version of Raise A Ruckus sounds like an uptempo version of "Meeting At The Old Camp ground" The YouTube video Shady Grove MB Church Choir - Meeting on the Old Campground has a choir singing that song. Does anyone else think these tunes sound the same? Also is this tempo faster than it usually is? I prefer it to the others on YT, maybe because it sound more soulful & it's faster.

[Azizip17]

Thanks for posting this song flle. This is the first time I heard this song. Although I don't hear that verse in this version, a 1956 album has Josh White singing this song with a verse about a bull frog who jumped from ditch to ditch. Those words suggest that this floating verse may have been the source of the 1890s May Irwin's Frog Song. That song became the source of Pete Seeger's "Foolish Frog" which became the basis for the handclap game/song "Down By The Banks of the Hanky Panky".