gordon wrote i'd rather drink muddy water.
who wrote i'd rather drink muddy water?
gordon
whatever his origin and background, by 1934 gordon was signed to a recording contract. apart from one bluebird side at the beginning of his recording career, all of gordon's pre-war work was released by decca. gordon's backing ensembles, sometimes billed as the vip vop band, variously included such notable blues and jazz musicians as scrapper blackwell, the brothers papa charlie mccoy and kansas joe mccoy, members of the harlem hamfats, frankie newton, pete brown, buster bennett, and the drummer zutty singleton. this ability to base backing units around a jazz-blues fusion of musicians was started by the harlem hamfats, but gordon's use of this arrangement proved the basis for many later blues bands. his most commercially successful number was a song he wrote, "i'd rather drink muddy water", in 1936 his ability to raise social issues in his songs is shown by "don't take away my p.w.a." (1936), a homage of sorts to the public works administration (p.w.a.), a large-scale public works construction agency in the united states in the great depression of the 1930s.
jimmie gordon
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bullet::::- "muddy water" (1926 in music), song written by jo trent music by peter derose & harry richman









































bullet::::- "muddy water" harry richman vocalized his own song (1927 music charts).









































bullet::::- "muddy water" recorded by bessie smith in 1927.









































bullet::::- "muddy water" vocalized by bing crosby music, paul whiteman & orchestra 1927.









































bullet::::- "muddy water" sheet music cover featured nora bayes 1928.









































bullet::::- "muddy water" a recorded demo song, vocalized in 1937 by violet w. hamilton (of the three x sisters).









































bullet::::- muddy water (1954), a song from by bing crosby's
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