Bert Williams 1915-1921

Bert Williams 1915-1921

Track Listings

1. Indoor Sports
2. Purpostus
3. Never Mo'
4. Lee Family
5. Twenty Years
6. O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
7. When I Return
8. Oh! Lawdy (Something's Done Got Between Ebecaneezer and Me)
9. It's Nobody's Business But My Own
10. Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Generosity
11. I'm Sorry I Ain't Got It, You Could Have It If I Had It Blues
12. Checkers (It's Your Move Now)
13. Ten Little Bottles
14. Unlucky Blues
15. Lonesome Alimony Blues
16. Get Up
17. I Want to Know Where Tosti Went When He Said "Goodbye"
18. Eve Cost Adam Just One Bone
19. You'll Never Need a Doctor No More
20. My Last Dollar
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Bert Williams: The Remaining Titles 1915-1921
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Bert for Beginners
 Bert Williams: The Remaining Titles 1915-1921
Bert Williams
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ASIN: B00005Y8UU
Release Date: 2000-09-07

Tracks:

  1. Indoor Sports
  2. Purpostus
  3. Never Mo'
  4. Lee Family
  5. Twenty Years
  6. O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
  7. When I Return
  8. Oh! Lawdy (Something's Done Got Between Ebecaneezer and Me)
  9. It's Nobody's Business But My Own
  10. Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Generosity
  11. I'm Sorry I Ain't Got It You Could Have It If I Had It Blues
  12. Checkers (It's Your Move Now)
  13. Ten Little Bottles
  14. Unlucky Blues
  15. Lonesome Alimony Blues
  16. Get Up
  17. I Want to Know Where Tosti Went When He Said "Good-bye"
  18. Eve Cost Adam Just One Bone
  19. You'll Never Need a Doctor No More
  20. My Last Dollar
  21. I'm Gonna Quit Saturday
  22. Brother Low Down [Take 2]
  23. Unexpectedly [Take 2]
  24. Phrenologist Coon [7" Version][Alternate Take][*]

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Bert for Beginners.......2005-05-30

For those who are interested in the foundation of American (and not just African-American) comedy, namely Egbert Austin Williams, or if you just want to kick back and laugh at some really funny songs-I woulld strongly recommend this CD to start with before moving on to the more complete Bert Williams Cds from Archeophone Records. This is sort of a Bert Williams sampler, if you will.

FYI-Bert Williams was the first major Black comedian and the first Black recording star. He made over 80 records between 1901 and 1922 of comical stories, monologues, and funny songs which were filled with imagination and wit and comes across as little cartoons without pictures.

It contains some really good examples of his work, if not always the best of it. For example, "Oh Death Where Is they Sting" (1918) is a classic with Bert as a hellfire and brimstone preacher who gets the tables turned on him by a wise-guy in the congregation. "Lonesome Alimony Blues" (1920), which is my personal favorite Bert Williams record, is a SCREAMINGLY funny tale of Bert going to jail for cheating on his wife. Bert's comical litany of jailhouse life "You hear the people walkin'/hear the people talkin'/there's no one for you to talk to/....Don't need to bother about geeting a shave/no one's ginna see your face" will have you pounding the floor in hysterics! "Save a Little Dram for me" is another comic screamer about a drunken preacher.

The "Phrenologist Coon" (1901, one of his first recordings) may shock the listener due to the blatantly racist title, but Bert (like all of us) was a product of his time and once you get past this and open your mind, you'll see that the tune is not as mean-spirited as it sounds. (For the record, "Phrenologists" were quack doctors of the early 1900s who claimed the ability to analyze one's inteeligence and personality by measuring the shape of one's head). Fortunately, Bert made very few records of this kind.

Of course the nitpickers among Bert Williams fans will decry the absence of the "Elder Eatmore" monologues and records he made with George Walker, etc. but that's what the Archeophone sets are for. Read a little bit about Bert, buy this, and it will whet your appetite for the more complete recordings of Bert Williams on Archeophone records. This is a good place to start.

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