{"id":1739,"date":"2016-07-18T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:13:10","slug":"sadie-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/sadie-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadie Green, the Vamp of New Orleans (5 Harmaniacs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O0Jg-pC9M18\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Working\u00a0 with a washboard player, I naturally played a lot of Kweskin Jug Band material &#8212; &#8220;Crazy Words, Crazy Tune,&#8221; &#8220;Borneo,&#8221; &#8220;Ukulele Lady,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/beedle-um-bum\/\">Beedle Um Bum<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m Satisfied with My Gal&#8221; <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-876 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kweskin-greatest-hits.jpg?resize=244%2C244&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kweskin-greatest-hits.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kweskin-greatest-hits.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/>(that was a call-and-response with Rob:<br \/>\n&#8220;She don&#8217;t wear no&#8211;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes, she does!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh, no, she don&#8217;t!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh, yes, she does!&#8221;), and a raft of others, among which this one (from a live recording at the Newport Folk Festival) was a favorite.<\/p>\n<p>When we were playing in Harvard Square a fair number of passersby knew the Jug Band stuff &#8212; the Kweskin gang were local heroes and it had only been a dozen years since their heyday &#8212; so we often got requests and tried to be ready for them. In Torremolinos we didn&#8217;t have a lot of listeners who knew Kweskin&#8217;s repertoire specifically, but British skiffle fans were familiar with the style and enjoyed the good-time ragtime rowdiness.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I had only a vague sense of where the Kweskinites got their material &#8212; I knew about the Memphis Jug Band and Cannon&#8217;s Jug Stompers, and was aware that they were drawing on a lot of other sources, but in those days before the internet it was not easy to track those sources down. Honestly, I still have no idea where a lot of those songs came from &#8212; I&#8217;ve never heard anyone else do &#8220;Borneo&#8221; and the only people I&#8217;ve heard singing &#8220;Crazy Words, Crazy Tune&#8221; (a.k.a. &#8220;Washington at Valley Forge&#8221;) got it from Kweskin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadie Green, the Vamp of New Orleans&#8221; was in that category until I looked it up on the internet a couple of days ago and found <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1740 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/5harmaniacs-a2.jpg?resize=332%2C156&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/5harmaniacs-a2.jpg?w=372&amp;ssl=1 372w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/5harmaniacs-a2.jpg?resize=300%2C141&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/>the Five Harmaniacs, whose 1926 recording was obviously the Kweskin band&#8217;s model. What had first attracted me to this particular song was Mel Lyman&#8217;s wailing, swinging harmonica break, which turns out to be directly based on the Harmaniacs&#8217; intro, though I still think Lyman&#8217;s is better.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t aware of the Harmaniacs, though a few of their recordings appeared on a jug band reissue LP in 1967, and my first assumption was that they were a white band imitating black groups like the Dixieland Jug Blowers and Memphis Jug Band. At some level, that may indeed be the case, but the tradition went a lot further back among both black and white players, and the Harmaniacs were one of the first bands to get it on record.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dave Samuelson, who interviewed three group members:<\/p>\n<div><em>Syd Newman, the band&#8217;s harmonica\/kazoo-playing leader, told me the sound of the Harmaniacs was a hybrid between Borrah Minevich&#8217;s Harmonica Rascals and Red McKenzie&#8217;s Mound City Blue Blowers. Already a seasoned vaudevillian, Newman and his partner Dave Robertson intended to form a Minevich-styled harmonica band, but couldn&#8217;t find enough skilled Hohner specialists in New York. Instead, they created an ersatz cowboy ensemble with North Carolina guitarist Walter Howard and a skilled plectrum banjo virtuoso, Jerry Adams. The band worked the East Coast circuit between 1925 and 1928.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1777 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sadie-Green.jpg?resize=222%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sadie Green\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sadie-Green.jpg?resize=222%2C300&amp;ssl=1 222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sadie-Green.jpg?w=736&amp;ssl=1 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/>Dave noted that they hit right off with &#8220;Sadie Green&#8221; and went on to record for several labels, while a similar act in this period, Ezra Buzzington&#8217;s Rustic Revelers, went on to form the basis of the Hoosier Hot Shots, a very popular novelty band of the 1930s&#8230; yet another historical byway to be explored, though not, I think, by me. But I do enjoy playing the song.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working\u00a0 with a washboard player, I naturally played a lot of Kweskin Jug Band material &#8212; &#8220;Crazy Words, Crazy Tune,&#8221; &#8220;Borneo,&#8221; &#8220;Ukulele Lady,&#8221; &#8220;Beedle Um Bum,&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m Satisfied with My Gal&#8221; (that was a call-and-response with Rob: &#8220;She don&#8217;t wear no&#8211;&#8221; &#8220;Yes, she does!&#8221; &#8220;Oh, no, she don&#8217;t!&#8221; &#8220;Oh, yes, she does!&#8221;), and a raft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/sadie-green\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sadie Green, the Vamp of New Orleans (5 Harmaniacs)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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