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recorded "Darktown Strutter's Ball (Italian Syle)" in 1954. The RCA release was a major hit, reaching No. 12 on retail sales. He parodies the lyrics, including "I'll be down to get you in a pushcart honey", and asks "Are you from Lyndhurst?", the city of his
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Original Dixieland Jazz Band (recorded May 30, 1917, released by Columbia Records as catalog number A-2297, with the flip side "Indiana One Step"). The ODJB recording was inducted into the
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The Beatles performed "Darktown Strutters' Ball" in their early Liverpool and Hamburg performances, though no recording has ever surfaced.
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recorded a version (complete with a rumba section!) on May 23, 1934, in New York but was only issued in Australia on Columbia DO-1255.
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In the premiere episode of the TV series M*A*S*H* (1971), it is background music (sung in Japanese) during a party scene.
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recorded a version on January 15, 1934, in New York but was only issued in England on Columbia CB-754.
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in Australia on Capitol CP-139, flip side "Deep Night" and in the US as the flip side to the single "
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as catalog number 1691, with the flip side "Oh!" and as catalog number 1741, with the flip side "
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as catalog number A-2478, with the flip side "I'm All Bound Round with the Mason Dixon Line")
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released a rock 'n' roll version of the song catalog number Albert AP11004, produced by
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Allen Broome & His Dixieland All-Stars released a version on his debut solo album
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on Decca F 11207, 1960, flip side "Swagger"; this was Brown's first single to chart.
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Performed by Antoinette Brown (portrayed by Maura G Hooper) in episode 3 of AMC's
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Abe Simpson sings it while getting ready for his date with Beatrice in the "
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Soon after its 1917 publication, "Darktown Strutters' Ball" was included by
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as catalog number 30448B, with the flip side "Original Dixieland One-Step")
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in her Vaudeville routine. The song was recorded on May 9 that year by the
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as catalog number 20315B, with the flip side "In the Land o' Yamo Yamo")
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as catalog number 60000, with the flip side "Dusk in Upper Sandusky")
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as catalog number 1166, with the flip side "As Tho' You Don't Know").
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Played by dance band at Summer Ball in Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis.
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as catalog number 11687, with the flip side "Memories of Sorrento")
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Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era
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Preacher Rollo and the Five Saints (Recorded April 18, 1951 in
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as catalog number 8006B, with the flip side "Hesitatin' Blues".
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as catalog number 15197A, with the flip side "Little Boy Blues"
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The opening lines of the song are quoted on the rear cover of
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as catalog number 15188D, with the flip side "Drink 'Er Down")
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as catalog number 20282, with the flip side "Homeward Bound")
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More than three million copies of the sheet music were sold.
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is singing it as he gets ill by the piano in the 1984 movie
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under the same catalog number, with the same flip side)
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Columbia 78, A2297, Original Dixieland Jass Band, 1917.
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in Australia, in February 1976, reaching no. 3 on the
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Martin & Brown ("The Harmonica Duo") (released by
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Jaudas' Society Orchestra issued a version in 1918 on
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as they are driving through the desert in 1996 film
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Ruby Newman and his Orchestra (recorded January 21,
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Index

Darktown Strutters Ball

Single
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Genre
Jazz
Label
Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Shelton Brooks
popular
song
Shelton Brooks
1917
jazz standard
Sophie Tucker
Six Brown Brothers
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Grammy Hall of Fame
1917
Pathe Records
Ray Anthony
Count Every Star
Boswell Sisters
Joe Brown
The Brown Dots
Manor Records
MGM Records
Castle Jazz Band
1949

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