{"id":1021,"date":"2016-05-07T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T19:03:48","slug":"let-me-hold-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/let-me-hold-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Hold You In My Arms Tonight (Jesse Fuller)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Let Me Hold You In My Arms Tonight\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CNHlQBKh7t8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was the second Jesse Fuller song I learned, after &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/san-francisco-bay\/\">San Francisco Bay Blues<\/a>.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure why &#8212; there were a lot of good songs on that album, and in retrospect it seems like several of them would have attracted my teenage fancies before this one did&#8230; and yet, there was something about this lyric. It is such a wonderful hodge-podge, traveling with Bernadine in his &#8220;flying machine&#8221; to <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jesse-Fuller-300x287.jpg?resize=300%2C287\" alt=\"Jesse Fuller\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/>the beach at Waikiki, and that charmingly odd locution, &#8220;We&#8217;ll all get together, spend a little while\/ Walking down that little old church aisle&#8221; &#8212; which I recall singing as &#8220;orchard aisle&#8221; for several years before I figured out what he was saying.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can determine, this was Fuller&#8217;s own composition, and is an excellent example of why it is so silly that historians have classed him as a blues musician. He did play some blues, but he was a magnificently varied jack of all trades &#8212; and not just when it came to music: he had a shoeshine stand, and also carved bendable wooden snakes that he sold on the street. If I&#8217;ve got the dates straight, that was when he was living in Hollywood, a period when he notably struck up an acquaintance with the world&#8217;s most popular movie star, Douglas Fairbanks, and played a bit part in <em>The Thief of Baghdad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Then he moved up to Oakland, where he became a professional musician for the first time, in his fifties, having hit on the gimmick of building himself a foot-pedal-operated bass and becoming a one man band. He also raised chickens, and did carpentry, and refitted his car to carry all the instruments and also serve as a sleeping space. 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