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FOUR DAY CREEP
[ 'FORE DAY CREEP ]
 
mx  26239-A
 
OCTOBER  31,  1939     Tuesday  PM 711 Fifth Avenue,  NYC
  ( VOCALION Records )
 

 
  12-Bar BLUES Key of   B Quarter Note =   90 Time:   3:25
 
 
  4-Bar Intro  +  6  CHORUSES:
 
      4  bars  –  ensemble [Intro]  
 
    12  bars  –  vocal (over ens riffs)  
 
    12  bars  –  vocal (over clt obbl)
 
    12  bars  –  vocal (over muted tbn obbl)
 
    12  bars  –  vocal (over muted tpt obbl)
 
  12  bars  –  vocal (over CC obbl)  
 
    12  bars  –  vocal (over ens riffs)  
 
 

 
Personnel:
 
  Ida Cox and her All-Star Band
  CHARLIE CHRISTIAN Guitar
  EDMOND HALL clarinet
  HOT LIPS PAGE trumpet
  J.C. HIGGINBOTHAM trombone
  FLETCHER HENDERSON piano
  ARTIE BERNSTEIN bass
  LIONEL HAMPTON drums
  IDA COX vocal
 
 

Composed by: Ida Cox
 
©   VALDÉS   6/20/20
 

 

Transcription

Four Day Creep   –   31 October 1939   –   mx 26239-A

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C
&A:

Four Day Creep kicks off the later session of Ida Cox’s two blues recording sessions for Vocalion Records on Halloween.  The same septet continues from the morning stint with the significant and welcome exception that Fletcher Henderson replaces James P. Johnson on piano.  Only one take was recorded.

Charlie Christian is on rhythm guitar most of the way but he does get some exemplary single-string accompaniment in behind one verse (the fifth, of six choruses).

 


 
Issued Recordings:
 
  [ 78 ] Vocalion 05298 (b/w Hard Time Blues)
 
  [ LP ] CBS 67203 (side C, track 4)
    Collector’s Classics CC 56 (side A, track 7)
    Columbia KG 30788 (side C, track 4)
    Queen-Disc Q-048 (side A, track 3)
 
  [ CD ] Affinity / Charly AFS 1015 (track 4)
  Chestnut CN1003 (track 17)
  Columbia/Legacy C2K 53407 (disc 2, track 4)
  Definitive DRCD11176 (disc 1, track 14)
  Document DOCD-5651 (track 8)
 



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