Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!rhea!aruba!brenner From: brenner@aruba.DEC Newsgroups: net.music Subject: re: looking for a couple old blues songs Message-ID: <7297@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 11:16:23 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.7297 Posted: Mon Apr 23 11:16:23 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Apr-84 01:02:09 EST Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 15 [blue note here] The version of "(Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on) The King of Rock'n'Roll" that has the long monologue about the British bobby was done by that fellah with Mad Dogs and Englishmen. My memory keeps reporting his name as Leon Russell. I'm not totally positive on this. Leon Redbone does a nice "Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own" ("Champaign don't make me crazy...") but you also might be thinking of Taj Mahal's rendition which is even more laid back, and looser, funkier. Ellen Brenner ...decvax!decwrl!rhea!aruba!brenner