The Ol' Sweet Tooth Boogie Part 1

Jazzbo Jamerson III

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featuring Texas Red III also featuring Louisiana Red III also featuring Red Buttons III also featuring Henry James "Red" Allen III

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Jazzbo Jamerson III

I am a one-man garage-blues-inspired-rock-jazz-folk band from Kickapoo, Illinois! Razzle Dazzle em' & they'll never catch wise! Brown-Eyed Soul-Blues

No details. Said to be from Little Egypt, Illinois. Proficient-esque-ish on guitar, acoustical kazoo, DIY One-String Diddley Bow, rhythm, foot-tappin', foot-stompin', foot-tambo'in', whoopin, hollerin', howlin', and Mississippi saxophone.

Song Info

Genre

Blues • Blues Rock

Charts

Peak #65

Peak in subgenre #4

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April 07, 2023

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MP3

MP3 8.2 MB • 192 kbps • 5:59

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Vocals

Male

Character

Energy

relaxed, cool

high-energy

Danceable

coffee-place

dancefloor

Positivity

dark, sad, angry

happy

Appeal

unique

radio-friendly

Story behind the song

This was written and originally recorded by the Chicago blues musician John Brim. Born in 1922, Brim recorded this at Chess Records in 1953. In 1994, he released a compilation album called The Ice Cream Man.

This is one of David Lee Roth's favorites. He pushed to get it on Van Halen's first album as a tribute to the blues.

The first verse is just Roth singing and playing acoustic guitar. The full band joins in after that.

Like many American blues songs, the lyrics are loaded with double entendres, making it a perfect song for David Lee Roth to sing. At the beginning of the song, Roth says, "Dedicate one to the ladies," making it clear that when he brags that his "flavors are guaranteed to satisfy," he's not talking about the frozen treat.
This was one of two covers on Van Halen's first album. The other, "You Really Got Me," was their first single.

Van Halen included this on a cassette they gave Gene Simmons before they had a record deal. Simmons didn't like this song, but let them record it anyway when he flew them to New York to make a demo. They didn't get a deal out of it, but when Warner Brothers finally signed them, the songs on the demo, including this, made up much of their first two albums.

In 1659 the Sicilian chef Francesco Procopia dei Coltelli perfected the making of ice cream. Twenty seven years later dei Coltelli opened Le Procope, the first cafe in Paris. Here after being considered a dessert for royalty alone, ice cream was made available to the general public for the first time. (From the book Food for Thought: Extraordinary Little Chronicles of the World by Ed Pearce)

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http://www.vhnd.com/van-halen-i/ice-cream-man/

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