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Women Wear No Clothes At All
Old-Time Breakdown; Missouri area
ARTIST: Fiddlin Bob Larkin
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
EARLIEST DATE: 1929
RECORDING INFO: "Fiddling Bob Larkin & His Music Makers" Okeh 45399 Recorded: Unknown Issued: December 1929
SOURCES: Honking Duck
NOTES: The lyrics are a parody of the minstrel era song "She Get's There Just the Same." Larkin used riske lyrics in some of his fiddle tunes including "The Higher Up the Monkey Climbed." Here's a brief bio:
Fiddlin' Bob Larkan and Family, who recorded fifteen tunes in Memphis in 1928 lived around the Hazen area in Prarie County, Arkansas (just below White County). Accompanying Larkan's fine fiddling were his sons Ed Larkan on basss and Forrest "Bob" Larkan on piano, with Holen Sherbs and Alice Sherbs (Larkan's daughter) playing guitars. Curiously Larkan was born in New York City (in 1867), but reared in Centralia, Missouri. Larkan received considerable exposure in the late 1920's and early 1930's by being associated with the notorious Doctor J.R. Brinkley of Kansas whose goat-gland cure-all medicine was advertised all over the powerful Mexican "outlaw" radio station XER and heard over most of the USA. Larkan and his family actually started performing over the air in 1929 on KFKB, Brinkley's Millford, Kansas small town radiostation that quickly became one of the more widely heard regional stations in the U.S. When Brinkley ran into trouble with the Federal Radio Commission for false advertising and conflict of interests, he defied the U.S. authorities by constructing a huge 75,000 watt station just over the Mexican border from Del Rio, Texas. Fiddlin' Bob Larkan was one of many rural musicians (including hte Carter Family) who played for a time over this powerful vehicle. The senior Larkan died in 1942.
Listen to Women Don't Wear No Clothes:
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"Women Wear No Clothes At All, The" by "Fiddling Bob Larkin & His Music Makers"
Okeh 45399 Recorded: Unknown Issued: December 1929
The women wear no clothes at all,
The women wear no clothes at all,
The women wear no clothes at all,
But they get there just the same.
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