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Reefer Songs

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Released
  
1989 (1989)

Release date
  
1989

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
01:09:08

Label
  
Mojo

Reefer Songs httpssongbook1fileswordpresscom201007reef

Recorded
  
June 17, 1932 - November 2, 1945

Reefer songs of the thirties and forties


Reefer Songs is a 1989 compilation album of jazz songs about drugs from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It features some of the very best artists and musicians of their day, including Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb, Cab Calloway, Sidney Bechet and Benny Goodman. Although jive / cannabis is the main drug cited here, cocaine, benzedrine (amphetamine) and heroin are also mentioned.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Reefer Man"
  2. "Man from Harlem"
  3. "Here Comes the Man with the Jive"
  4. "If You're a Viper"
  5. "Texas tea party"
  6. "Light Up"
  7. "Jack, I'm Mellow"
  8. "Sweet Marijuana Brown"
  9. "Viper Mad"
  10. "The Weed Smoker's Dream (Why don't you Do Right)"
  11. "The 'G' Man Got the 'T' Man"
  12. "All the Jive Is Gone"
  13. "The Stuff is Here"
  14. "Wacky Dust"
  15. "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?"
  16. "Jerry the Junker"
  17. "Reefer Song"
  18. "Lotus Blossom"
  19. "Willie The Chimney Sweeper"
  20. "Weed"
  21. "Save the Roach for me"
  22. "Knockin' myself out"
  23. "Minnie the Moocher"

Songs

1Reefer ManDon Redman and His Orchestra3:34
2The Man From HarlemCab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra3:10
3Here Comes the Man With the JiveStuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys3:03

References

Reefer Songs Wikipedia
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