"Hokum Boys" was the billing (or part of the billing) of multiple jazz bands (typically, just studio grouping of musicians) active in 1920s and 1930s....
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Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make humorous, sexual innuendos....
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Blues" concert. Other notable recordings include (among hundreds): The Hokum Boys - Gambler's Blues (1929) Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, with Hot Lips Page...
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Dirty blues (category Hokum blues songs)
recorded by Blue Lu Barker and Louis Armstrong among others. Dirty rap Hokum "Dirty Blues | Music Highlights". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-05-07. "Press...
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pianist was Judson Brown. She was a one-time vocalist for the Famous Hokum Boys in 1930 and toured and recorded as a backing vocalist for other blues...
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Famous Hokum Boys", the duo found great success together, eventually collaborating on 60 songs between 1928 and 1932, and coining the term "Hokum" to describe...
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any other bluesman before or since, including in his repertoire ragtime, hokum, country blues, urban blues, jazz-tinged songs, folk songs and spirituals...
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two recorded almost 90 sides, sometimes as the Hokum Boys or, with Frankie Jaxon, as Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band. In 1928 and 1929, besides making their...
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billed as The Hokum Boys. Their track, written by Dorsey, "I Had to Give Up Gym" was an early dirty blues song, sometimes described as hokum. His groups...
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It's Tight Like That (category Hokum blues songs)
"It's Tight Like That" is a hokum or dirty blues song, recorded by Tampa Red and Georgia Tom on October 24, 1928. Vocalion Records issued it on the then...
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