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Good for What Ails you : Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926-1937.

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Various performers.
Compact discs.
Booklet includes essays on the history of medicine shows and the performers by Marshall Wyatt and Bengt Olsson, and song notes by Marshall Wyatt.
disc 1. The spasm (Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah) -- Tanner's boarding house (Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett) -- Don't think I'm Santa Claus (Lil McClintock) -- Hokum blues (Dallas String Band with Coley Jones) -- Jimbo Jambo Land (Shorty Godwin) -- Gonna swing on the golden gate (Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers) -- Papa's 'bout to get mad (Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley) -- The man who wrote Home sweet home never was a married man (Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright) -- Bye, bye policeman (Jim Jackson) -- The bald-headed end of a broom (Walter Smith) -- Bow wow blues (Allen Brothers) -- Beans (Beans Hambone & El Morrow) -- A chicken can waltz the gravy around (Stovepipe #1 and David Crockett) -- Tell it to me (Grant Brothers & Their Music) -- Ain't no use working so hard (Carolina Tar Heels) -- Mama keep your yes ma'am clean (Walter Cole) -- C-H-I-C-K-E-N spells chicken (Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet) -- My money never runs out (Banjo Joe) -- Railroadin' some (Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas") -- Traveling man (Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers) -- G. Burns is gonna rise again (Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop) -- Baby all night long (Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers) -- Born in hard luck (Chris Bouchillon) -- He's in the jailhouse now (Memphis Sheiks).
disc 2. Gonna tip out tonight (Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley) -- Chevrolet car (Sam McGee) -- It ain't gonna rain no mo' (Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers) -- Bring it with you when you come (Cannon's Jug Stompers) -- Atlanta strut (Blind Sammie) -- Go along mule (Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers) -- Casey Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- I got mine (Frank Stokes) -- Hannah (Chris Bouchillon) -- Adam & Eve in the garden (Bogus Ben Covington) -- Mysterious coon (Alec Johnson & His Band) -- Her name was Hula Lou (Carolina Tar Heels) -- Reno blues (Three Tobacco Tags) -- Scoodle um skoo (Papa Charlie Jackson) -- Stackalee (Frank Hutchison) -- The cat's got the measles, the dog's got the whooping cough (Walter Smith) -- Shout you cats (Hezekiah Jenkins) -- Nobody's business if I do (Tommie Bradley) -- Sweet sixteen (Charlie Poole with The North Carolina Ramblers) -- Ticklish Reuben (Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright) -- I heard the voice of a porkchop (Jim Jackson) -- Shine (Dallas String Band with Coley Jones) -- The gypsy (Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers) -- Kiss me, Cindy (J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers).

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PUBLISHED
Raleigh, NC : Old Hat Records, p2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 2 sound discs (145 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (72 p.)
Language: English
Format: CD

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Wyatt, Marshall.
Daddy Stovepipe, 1867-1963.
Porkchop.
Mississippi Sarah, d. 1937.
Beans Hambone (Musician)
Stovepipe No. 1.
Blind Sammie.
Tanner, Gid.
Macon, Uncle Dave, 1870-1952.
Cannon, Gus, 1883-1979.
Johnson, T. C., musician.
Nelson, Blut Coat Tom.
Puckett, Riley, 1894-1946.
McClintock, Lil.
Jones, Coley.
Godwin, Shorty.
Carson, Fiddlin' John, 1868-1949.
Anderson, Pink, 1900-1974.
Dooley, Simmie, 1881-1961.
Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955.
Woolbright, Mack.
Jackson, Jim.
Morrow, El.
Crockett, David.
Cole, Walter.
McGee, Kirk, 1899-
Miller, Emmett, 1900-1962.
Mainer, J. E. 1898-1971.
Poteet, Blythe.
Thomas, Henry, ca. 1874-ca. 1930.
Hunt, Prince Albert, 1901-1931.
Bouchillon, Chris.
McDonald, Earl.
Stokes, Frank.
Covington, Ben, b. 1890.
Johnson, Alec.
Jackson, Papa Charlie, d. 1938.
Hutchison, Frank, 1897-1945.
Smith, Walter, d. 1978.
Jenkins, Hezekiah.
Bradley, Tommie.
Poole, Charlie, 1892-1931.
Dallas String Band.
Original Louisville Jug Band.
Grant Brothers.
Skillet Lickers.
Cannon's Jug Stompers.
North Carolina Ramblers.
Allen Brothers.
Carolina Tar Heels.
Georgia Crackers.
Texas Ramblers.
Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers.
Memphis Sheiks.
Virginia Reelers (Musical group)
Fruit Jar Drinkers (Musical group)
Three Tobacco Tags (Musical group)

SUBJECTS
Medicine shows.
Minstrel music.
Old-time music.
Folk music -- United States.
Popular music -- United States -- 1921-1930.
Popular music -- United States -- 1931-1940.
Novelty songs.