"Keep on Truckin'" 1936

[Sam Clements]

Well, I screwed up the RealPlayer link, but you can listen to it by clicking
on the first track at the yazoo page.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Clements" <sclements at NEO.RR.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: "Keep on Truckin'" 1936


> 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>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> 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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