This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series on the children's game "Hide & Seek" (also known as "Hide & Go Seek".
Part II presents information about Big Joe Turner and showcases YouTube examples of the Blues song "Hide And Seek" as it was performed by that Bluesman. The lyrics for Big Joe Turner's "Hide And Seek" allude to the children's game "hide and seek" and include some rhyming verses that are similar to the Gullah children's hide & seek rhyme entitled "All Hid".
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/10/all-hid-african-american-childrens.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part I showcases an African American children's rhyme that was used as a prelude to the chasing portion of "Hide & Seek" games. This rhyme is part of the Gullah culture of Georgia and is included in the book Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, Stories from Afro-American Heritage (University of Georgia Press, originally published in 1972, Brown Thrasher Edition, 1987). This rhyme is also included in Old Mother Hippletoe: Rural and Urban Children’s Songs New World NW 291 (1978).
Most of this post is a reprint of a post that was published in November 2014 on cocojams2, another blog that I curate that focuses on some examples of African American children's rhymes and cheers. This pancocojams post also includes an Addendum that presents information about the Gullah people.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
Thanks to Big Joe Turner for his musical legacy. Thanks to the composers of this song and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publishers of these examples on YouTube.
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INFORMATION ABOUT BIG JOE TURNER
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Joe_Turner
"Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." His greatest fame was due to his rock-and-roll recordings in the 1950s, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", but his career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s.[1]
Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, with the Hall lauding him as "the brawny voiced 'Boss of the Blues'".[1]"...
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A website about Big Joe Turner notes that he first released "Hide & Seek" in 1955. https://www.discogs.com/Big-Joe-Turner-Hide-And-Seek-Midnight-Cannonball/release/5911504.
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From https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/big-joe-turner?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4fFttP95AIVEFYMCh1blQ2FEAAYASAAEgJ1G_D_BwE
"Big Joe Turner was the brawny-voiced “Boss of the Blues.”
He was among the first to mix R&B with boogie-woogie, resulting in jump blues—a style that presaged the birth of rock and roll. Indeed, Turner’s original recording of “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” cut for Atlantic Records in 1954, remains one of the cornerstones numbers of the rock and roll revolution. Turner’s lengthy career touched on most every significant development in popular music during this century, taking him from the big bands of the Swing Era to boogie-woogie, rhythm & blues and rock and roll. James Austin of Rhino Records noted that “[Turner’s] raucous style first blended R&B with boogie-woogie. The result was jump blues, and Joe was its foremost practitioner.”
How important was he to the development of rock and roll? “Rock and roll would have never happened without him,” opined legendary songwriter Doc Pomus.
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As a young man, Turner worked at various joints—including the Backbiter’s Club and the Sunset Café—as a bouncer, bartender and singer. It was here that he hooked up with pianist Pete Johnson (nominally referred to in the songs “Roll ‘Em Pete” and “Johnson & Turner Blues"). Turner also sang with the big bands of Count Basie and Benny Moten when they came through town.
Turner and Johnson helped popularize boogie-woogie and jump blues in the late Thirties and early Forties. “Everybody was singing slow blues when I was young,” Turner told Rhino’s James Austin, “and I thought I’d put a beat to it and sing it uptempo.” Crowds would clamor for Johnson to play some boogie—“Roll ‘em, Pete! Make ‘em jump!”—and he would oblige. Thus did this duo help ignite a musical trend in the nightclubs of Kansas City and beyond. The songs Turner sang (and sometimes wrote) were often risqué, employing coy slang words and metaphors for sex in ways that would amuse a partying club crowd."...
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LYRICS- HIDE AND SEEK
(as performed by Big Joe Turner)
Come on, little baby, play hide 'n' go seek with me
Come on, little baby, play hide 'n' go seek with me
We're gonna play the game, the way it oughta be
Now, I spy, kick 'em in the eye
I'm gonna get you sweetie pie
Oh-boy, oh-boy, oh-boy
Have me some fun tonight
Go way over yonder' hide behind the big oak tree
Go way over yonder' hide behind the big oak tree
Ain't nobody gonna play the game, but you and me
Now, ten, twenty, twenty-five, thirty
Thirty-five, fourty... lawdy miss clawdy
Oh-boy, oh-boy, oh-boy
Get me some love tonight
Now, all ain't here, can't hide over
You can't hide behind a four leaf clover
Oh-boy, oh-boy, oh-boy
Have me some fun tonight
Now, I spy, kick 'em in the eye
I'm gonna get you sweetie pie
Oh-boy, oh-boy, oh-boy
Have me some fun tonight
Are you ready? No-no-no-no
Are you ready? No-no-no-no
Are you ready? No-no-no-no
Are you ready? No-no-no-no
Are you ready? Yes-yes!
Here I come!
source: https://genius.com/Joe-turner-hide-and-seek-lyrics
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The summary given for the video given as Example #1 below indicates that Ethel Byrd and Paul Winley were the writers of the song "Hide & Seek" (as performed by Big Joe Turner).
Notice how this song is made up of two line rhyming or near rhyming verses like the Gullah children's rhyme "All Hid" (featured on Part I of this pancocojams series.) For example:
"Now, ten, twenty, twenty-five, thirty-snip-
Thirty-five, fourty... lawdy miss clawdy"
[and]
"Now, all ain't here, can't hide over
You can't hide behind a four leaf clover"
Here's information about the words "lawdy miss clawdy"
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawdy_Miss_Clawdy
" "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" is a rhythm and blues song by New Orleans singer/songwriter Lloyd Price that "grandly introduced The New Orleans Sound".[1] It was first recorded by Price in 1952 with Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew during his first session for Art Rupe and Specialty Records. The song became one of the biggest selling R&B records of 1952 and crossed over to other audiences. "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" inspired many songs and has been recorded by a variety of artists."...
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"Lawdy" is an African American Vernacular English form of the word "Lordy" and "Clawdy" is a nickname for the female name "Claudine".
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SHOWCASE EXAMPLES
Example #1: Hide & Seek [sound file]
Big Joe Turner - Topic, Jan 23, 2017
Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic
Hide & Seek · Joe Turner
Greatest Hits
℗ 1955 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Producer: Ahmet Ertegun
Saxophone: Al Sears
Guitar: Elmore James
Saxophone: Grady Jackson
Producer: Jerry Wexler
Bass Guitar: Jimmy Richardson
Piano: Johnny Jones
Saxophone: McKinley Easton
Trumpet: Sonny Cohen
Drums: Ted Saunders
Writer: Ethel Byrd
Writer: Paul Winley
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Example #2: Big Joe Turner - Hide And Seek - Version 2 (1966)
leandro daniel gauna, Apr 14, 2013
Hola amantes de la buena musica ,aqui les dejo un video
de esta gran artista compositor "BIG JOE TURNER"
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