Face the Music 7.05.18

Serenade to a Lawn

Keep Off the Grass

James P. Johnson 1921

West Lawn Polka

Fred J. Bacon 1912

Let’s Go Sit on the Lawn

Lightnin’ Hopkins 1964

Weed

Bea Foote 1938

Devil in the Woodpile

Noah Lewis 1929

Ain’t Gonna Rain No More

Gus Cannon 1963

In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

Natty Dominique’s Creole Dance Band 1953

The Green Grass Grows All Around

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five 1947

{from the soundtrack of the film “Reet, Petite and Gone”

I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover

Coleman Hawkins 1962

My Little Grass Shack

Sol Hoopii 1933

Back in Your Own Backyard

Billie Holiday 1938

The Turf

John Kirby & his Orchestra 1939

You’re Lettin’ the Grass Grow Under Your Feet

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

Chewed Up Grass

Big Joe Turner 1941

The Squirrel

Fats Navarro with Tadd Dameron’s band

live at the Royal Roost NYC 1948

coda: Human Being Lawn Mower

MC5 live in Saginaw 1970

The Mole
Harry James & his Orchestra