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(1956) Sun 250 ''Black Jack David'' b/w ''Ubangi Stomp'' Warren Smith

STUDIO SESSION FOR WARREN SMITH AT THE MEMPHIS RECORDING SERVICE FOR SUN RECORDS 1956 SUN RECORDING STUDIO 706 UNION AVENUE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE SUN SESSION: UNKNOWN DATE AUGUST 1956 SESSION HOURS: UNKNOWN PRODUCER AND RECORDING ENGINEER - SAM C. PHILLIPS AND/OR JACK CLEMENT "BLACK JACK DAVID" Composer: - Warren Smith Publisher: - B.M.I. - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated Matrix number: - U 218 - Master (3:08) Recorded:- Unknown Date August 1956 Released: - September 24, 1956 First appearance: - Sun Records (S) 78/45rpm standard single SUN 250-A mono BLACK JACK DAVID / UBANGI STOMP Reissued - 1995 Bear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 15802-2-19 mono THE SUN SINGLES COLLECTION - VOLUME 2 Once again, Sam Phillips hedged his bets by coupling a rockabilly anthem with a hillbilly tune. Reportedly originating in Scotland circa 1600, ''The Gypsy Laddie'' began: ''The gypsies they came to my lord's castle/And O but they sang so bonnie/They sang sae sweet and soe complete/That down came our fair ladie''. And of course off went the lady. The first to chronicle the song's tortuous history was Francis James Child in his nineteenth century tome ''English And Scottish Popular Ballads''. After crossing the ocean with the early settlers, it changed in the hollows of Appalachia. Bits of another song called ''Seventeen Come Sunday'' were added as the woman lost her nobility along with her virginity. The first recording was by a folklorist, Professor I.G. Greer and his wife, in 1929. Another folklorist, John Jacob Niles, recorded ''The Gypsy Laddie'' for RCA in 1939. Cliff Carlise cit it that year, although he said he learned it from T. Texas Tyler, and Tyler copyrighted it in August 1939, one month after Carlise's recording. The Carter Family recorded it in 1940. Tyler's adaptation became the first post-War recording, and probably led to Warren Smith's recording. While unaware of the song's origins, Smith was undoubtedly aware that it was far from original. In fact, his lyrics were considerably less salty than the Carter Family's. In a 1956 interview in the Memphis Press Scimitar' Smith hurriedly pointed out that, even though ''Black Jack David'' was a rake and philanderer, ''the lyric is fixed so there's time enough that she could have gotten a divorce or something before she goes with him''. Of course, Warren. This is a stellar performance that needs no apologies. Sparse, achingly pure, and haunting in the best tradition of hillbilly music. A standout cut on every front. And, as on Johnny Cash's ''Folsom Prison Blues'', the hook is provided by a repeated guitar solo, in this case played by Bradd Suggs or Buddy Holobaugh. (MH) (HD) (CE) "UBANGI STOMP" Composer: - Charles Underwood Publisher: - B.M.I. - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated Matrix number: - U 219 - Master (1:58) Recorded: - Unknown Date August 1956 Released: - September 24, 1956 First appearance: - Sun Records (S) 78/45rpm standard single SUN 250-B mono UBANGI STOMP / BLACK JACK DAVID Reissued - 1995 Bear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 15802-2-20 mono THE SUN SINGLES COLLECTION - VOLUME 2 Charles Underwood, then a student at Memphis State University, contributed "Ubangi Stomp". ''I didn't like it, you know'', recalled Warren Smith. ''Then one night we were cutting, it was around 12:30 at night and I was up against the wall, really biting the bullet trying to find the fourth song. Charles came through the door and he changed four or five things I didn't like in the song and we went to work on it''. In a later era, Charles Underwood became a producer at Sun and, even later, engineered ''The Monster Mash'' and Herb Alpert's debut hit ''The Lonely Bull''. In 1956 he was a struggling student. He seems to have cheerfully assigned a common dialect to American Indians and Africans (''...heap big jam session'') and in all honestly, the song is as close to denigrating as anything released on Sun. However, it entered the Memphis charts and helped to sustain the momentum of ''Rock And Roll Ruby''. Rather than make a big splash, it appears to have sold over 100,000 copies throughout an eighteen month period. The guitarist is Brad Suggs, stalwart of the Slim Rhodes Show, and the drummer is Johnny Bernero. Other musicians are somewhat unclear although the bassist may be Jan Ledbetter. Smith's interpretation of the song has all the contagious enthusiasm of pure rockabilly which has enabled it to survive the years well, and even survive a beleaguered and belated cover version from Alice Cooper. (MH) (HD) (CE) (SP) Name (Or. No. Of Instruments) Warren Smith - Vocal and Guitar Al Hopson - Guitar Marcus Van Story - Bass Johnny Bernero - Drums Brad Suggs - Guitar Smokey Joe Bauch - Piano © - 706 UNION AVENUE SESSIONS - ©