[Ads-l] Antedating of "Sweet Mama"

[Shapiro, Fred]

sweet mama (OED 1950)

1923 Plaindealer (Topeka) 6 Apr. 4 (GenealogyBank)  (title of blues recording) You Got Ev'rything a Sweet Mama Needs but Me.

1930 Plaindealer (Topeka) 14 Feb. 3/1 (GenealogyBank)  The winner will claim the jazz championship of the world !"  "And the sweet mama, too, how 'bout it?" called a wag.

Fred Shapiro

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