Leona Williams sings "Got To Cool My Doggies Now" on Columbia A3642<br /><br />This is superb in every way! Great melody, clever lyrics, hot singing, sizzling accompaniment.<br /><br />"Doggies" here is slang for feet. If you dance too much, you must rest your "doggies" or feet.<br /><br />Recorded May 23, 1922. <br /><br />Sally Lee a raggy stepper, Sweet baby<br />Some cayenne pepper down at a darktown dance<br />Doin’ a Cootie Crawl Prance<br />When the band commenced to bluin’ Sally’s dogs<br />Commenced to doin’ funny tricks around the hall<br />Say Bo’ she had ’em that’s all<br />And when the band would stop<br />Miss Sally Lee would hop<br />Up to the leader man and say, “Don’t chop it."<br /><br />When I hear a jazz tune full of pep<br />Got to shoot my Nelson--that’s my "rep"<br />Struttin’ like a peacock when I step<br />Hot dog baby, ain’t no maybe<br /><br />When my doggies start in acting rough<br />That’s the time I want to do my stuff<br />I commence to prance just like a monkey<br />When you play a rag that’s Honkey Tonkey<br />‘Cause I’m a dancin’ I vow<br />Got to cool my puppies now, Bow-wow!<br />Got to cool my doggies now<br /><br />When my doggies start to bark<br />Got to let ’em syncopate<br />Ain’t no use to let ’em park<br />Got no time to hesitate<br />Stand aside and let me pass<br />Eenie, meenie minie mo<br />Gonna show you folks some class<br />Jazz ’em up and let ’em go<br /><br />This disc has a hot band! <br /><br />Those are white musicians.<br /><br />The singer is African-American. <br /><br />The Original Memphis Five plays but uses the name The Dixie Band. <br /><br />Reminds me of the ODJB!<br /><br />The disc identifies the song as a "Sweet N' Pretty Strut." That's not the song's subtitle. Original sheet music has no such subtitle. In fact, sheet music gives this as the subtitle: "Got to cool my puppies now." The song was in The Passing Show of 1922.<br /><br />The song was written by Bob Schafer, Babe Thompson, and Spencer Williams.
