Harry Hipster Gibson - Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphys Ovaltine (1944)

Flashbacks 1920's - 1940's Novelty Songs Of An Era Long Gone Bye. Drug Songs.
Harry "The Hipster" Gibson (June 27, 1915 -- May 3, 1991) was a jazz pianist, singer, proto-rapper and songwriter.
Gibson played New York style Stride piano and boogie woogie while singing in a wild, unrestrained style. His music career began in the late 1920s, when as the young Harry Raab, his birth name, he played stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He continued to perform there throughout the 1930s, adding the barrelhouse boogie of the time to his repertoire, and was discovered by Fats Waller in 1939 and brought down to mid-town Manhattan, where he made a splash and changed his surname to Gibson. Between 1939 and 1945, he played at various Manhattan jazz clubs on 52nd Street ("Swing Street"), most notably the Three Deuces, run by Irving Alexander, and Leon and Eddies, run by Leon Enkin and Eddie Davis.
Ovaltine is a brand of milk flavoring product made with malt extract (except the blue packaging in the US), sugar (except in Switzerland), cocoa, and whey. Ovaltine, a registered trademark of Associated British Foods, is made by Wander AG, a subsidiary of Twinings which acquired the brand from Novartis in 2003, except in the United States, where Nestlé acquired the rights separately from Novartis later on.
Ovomaltine was exported to Britain in 1909; it was a misspelling in the trademark registration that led to the name being shortened to Ovaltine in English-speaking markets. A factory was built in Kings Langley which exported to the United States as well. By 1915 Ovaltine was being manufactured in Villa Park, Illinois, for the US market. Originally advertised as consisting solely of "malt, milk, eggs, flavored with cocoa", the formulation has changed over the decades, and today several formulations are sold in different parts of the world. In the US, after purchasing the US rights, Nestlé changed the formulation bringing its flavor profile very close to that of another Nestlé chocolate milk flavoring product, Nesquik.

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[wlangley88]

I believe he just recently passed away.  There is going to be a big show at the Apollo sometime in February. Some of the biggest names are going to be there, and there are still some wanting to be there.

[NoRosesForMe]

Hahah! omgoodnesss! This is a trip. Thank you so much. I could hug ya! ♥Peace to ya dear.

[JazzEraTripper97]

Thanks for the post warholsoup100; I have to say, just LOVE those pictures you upload with your tracks... Killer! Also, thanks for all the great "underground" jazz tracks!