A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid
"A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid" is a jazz standard song with music by James P. Johnson[1] and lyrics by Andy Razaf[2] first published in 1930. It was composed for the musical "The Kitchen Mechanics Revue” “a critique of political economy you can dance to.”[3] a “plotless but tightly themed musical celebrating male and female service workers as Harlem’s fountain of wealth, sanity, pleasure and art,”[4]
The song has been recorded many times over the years, Roy Milton and His Solid Senders recorded a R&B version in 1947.[5]
Discography
[edit]- Andy Razaf with Jimmy Johnson and His Orchestra, 3/25/31, Columbia, 14668-D[6]
- Fats Waller and his Rhythm, May 16, 1934[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Jasen, David A., Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, Routledge, New York, 2003, p.224
- ^ Waller/Razaf, American Songbook Series, The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, AD 048-21
- ^ Lefferts, Peter M. (August 26, 2016). "Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of J. Tim Brymn Materials for a Biography". DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Maxwell, William J.; William Maxwell, Sir (1999). New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231114257.
- ^ Milton, Roy, Roy Milton and his Solid Senders, The Legends of Specialty Series, Specialty Records, SPCD 7004 liner notes
- ^ Waller/Razaf, American Songbook Series, The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, AD 048-21
- ^ Fats Waller, Fats Waller and his Rhythm: Breakin’ the Ice, The Early Years, Part 1, 1934-35, RCA, 2 CD set, liner notes by Dan Morgenstern