"Keep on Truckin'" 1936

[Sam Clements]

Fred, you can hear what appears to be the 1936 version wherin Fuller sings
"Keep on truckin', Mama,...."
file://C:/WINDOWS/Temporary Internet
Files/Content.IE5/01234567/1060_1[1].ram

It's from the link at
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:ct-knxhkUmYC:www.yazoorecords.com/1060.
htm+%22truckin%27+my+blues+away%22+1936&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Sam Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 10:28 AM
Subject: "Keep on Truckin'"


> The OED, in one of its weaker entries, has a 1972 first use for the phrase
> "keep on trucking."  R. Crumb used it, of course, in Zap #1 (1968).  I am
> trying to see how far back it goes in blues music.
>
> The earliest confirmed usage I have found is in the lyrics of Blind Boy
> Fuller's 1937 song "Truckin' My Blues Away #2."  Is anyone able to tell me
> whether "keep on truckin'" appears in Fuller's original "Truckin' My Blues
> Away" (1936), or in any earlier song?  There is said to have been a song
> called "Keep on Truckin'," but I don't know the date.
>
> I am aware that Barry Popik posted a 1935 song called "Truckin'" that
> includes the words "keep truck, truck, truckin' along!"
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>
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