From the Studio #62

You’ve Got to See Mamma Ev’ry Night

This tune has, if not nine lives, at least two. Like many other ones. It was popular by recordings of singers and early bands like The Georgians and Ladd’s Black Aces around 1923, then disappeared, just to come back fresh as new when Bunk Johnson and other revivalists played it.

I start with a clarinet chorus and use banjo, tuba, and washboard rhythm.

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