The Boswell Sisters - Sleepy Time Down South

Magical - recorded 1932, original appeared in a Max Fleischer cartoon.I´ve cut the cartoon-part. WOW, what guitarists - can anyone play faster?!?!?!

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Music

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• 30s
• 1930s
• Dixie
• Swing
• Jazz

[joomuck]

One gets capitivated by the voices and forgets the history. It is a seductive experience by great singers.

[yenerowna]

I start by saying I´m multiracial.

In those days the word nigger didn´t have the strong meaning it has now. It wasn´t a nice word even then though. Look up (the word) nigger on wikipedia. You´ll notice that a nigger is also a butterfly.

One of the reasons Armstrong could get so big is because he wasn´t political correct. In my opinion the PC thinking is what shurts the black race in our time. Michael Jackson is the only one who can match Louis because he too wasn´t PC.

[SatchmoSings]

@lexo30 It's Eddie Lang

[lexo30]

Great stuff. There's a couple of killer guitarists on that track, too. I'm guessing Dick McDonough and Carl Kress.

[emerging2012]

The definition of croon is as follows

1. To hum or sing softly.

2. To sing popular songs in a soft, sentimental manner.

3. Scots To roar or bellow.

To sing softly or in a humming way: crooning a lullaby.

A soft singing or humming.

[7jack7]

The Boswell Sisters and the Andrew Sisters were an influence and inspiration for The Skylarks of 1950s South Africa. The Skylarks was a girl group formed by recently departed Miriam Makeba.

Unfortunately, Gallo Music Group, which owns the rights to these recordings, keeps a tight rein on them and no longer has them available.

[phillytalented]

crooning.....Lets all thank God that we have the freedom and education to know better. As for the song, just sit back and enjoy. no harm was meant in the writting of it. Louis sung it!!!

[phillytalented]

i start my coment off by saying that I am black.......This song shows no racisim due to the context it was used in. Like someone else said, it was in admiration of the black culture. Yet, it was a sign of ignorance. They werent hating black people, just honestly thought that "darkie" instead of something like "nigger" was better. at that time black people had to get what they could get i would assume. If i lived in that time, i might have accepted darkie so that i didnt have to sing niggers

[phillytalented]

ok Louis did not exploit his race, he gave it hope. honestly if you were to do your research you would know that because of him, black people can act in movies as normal human being and share the stage with white people. He became very respcted in the white community and was great friends with bing crosby. he stared in many movies with him as a very famous black musician and not a servant or low character

[opryman52]

What's an awful thing to say!

[Morthund]

amazing... I love this, thanks for the upload

I work at an old folks home and theres this old artist that lives there, once in a while we sit and listen to his music, and the poor bastard almost had a heart-attack when I mentioned that I'd been listening to this