Too Big Blues
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:30 am
There's an old, old tradition of double entendre songs in the blues (or what used to be called "race records") and that's kind of where this song comes from. In fact, it's the result of a couple of specific songs which do not fit this category, both of which can be found on YouTube: Fats Waller's Your Feet's Too Big [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in1eK3x1PBI] and Phil Harris' The Thing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1tKZ3flZZY]. Nonetheless, this tune falls squarely in both camps: the semi-salacious and the word-substitution-joke ditty. Harris' song was made to capitalize on the Howard Hawks horror film of the same name (1950), and it was pretty popular at the time.
Shoutout to Tall Tim for adding bass to this thing.
Streaming link: https://hearthis.at/tyrannocaster/too-big-1i/
Shoutout to Tall Tim for adding bass to this thing.
Streaming link: https://hearthis.at/tyrannocaster/too-big-1i/