For 5 pts..what was the name of Mr.Bojangles dawg?..For the whole ten, who recorded the hit? ..loose...?

Question

314592: Well, you already just got two points..work with me!"

Answer 1

"Mr. Bojangles" is a popular song written and initially recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker in 1968 and covered since by many other artists. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band took the song to #9 on the Billboard pop chart in 1971.

Bill Robinson's character was, in effect, memorialized in Jerry Jeff Walker's 1968 folk song "Mr. Bojangles" that was later recorded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Harry Nilsson, Harry Chapin, Chet Atkins, King Curtis, Jim Croce, Bob Dylan, Harry Belafonte, Arlo Guthrie, Nina Simone, John Denver, David Bromberg, Neil Diamond, Sammy Davis, Jr, Tom T. Hall, John Holt, Robbie Williams, the Nervous Rex, and David Campbell, it was also again preformed, by the 60/70s folk rock band The Byrds. The song, however, is not about Robinson himself. It is apparently about an obscure imitator, one of several reported, who danced for tips. In a sense, his influence passed into the "folk culture" by inspiring talented, but poor, individuals to dance, thus sharing in his legacy.

Answer 2

snowy-like your old dawg

Answer 3

I don't remember (no longer have the record), but I DO remember the old geezer clearly spoke the dog's name in the intro before the song started.....Hmmm...I wonder

Answer 4

His name was Sam.

Awhole lotta recordings. Sammy Davis Jr. NGDB, They were first after the writer Jerry Jeff Walker.

Answer 5

First of all, how are you going to allocate five points to an individual?

Answer 6

Hello you there! I didn't come on here for the points.

That is my answer.

Answer 7

To those of you who don't remember or are to young to know, Sammy Davis Jr. sang this song long before Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Answer 8

never says the dogs name

Mr. Bojangles

( Nitty Gritty Dirt Band )

I knew a man Bojangles and he danced for you in worn out shoes

With silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants, the old soft shoe

He jumped so high, he jumped so high,

Then he lightly touched down

I met him in a cell in New Orleans, I was - down and out

He looked at me to be the eyes of age as he spoke right out

He talked of life, he talked of life, he laughed, slapped his leg a step

Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles

Mr. Bojangles, dance!

He said his name, Bojangles, then he danced a l**k across the cell

He grabbed his pants a better stance, oh, he jumped up high,

Then he clicked his heels

He let go a laugh, he let go a laugh,

Shook back his clothes all around

Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles

Mr. Bojangles, dance!

He danced for throws at minstrel shows and county fairs

Through out the south

He spoke with tears of fifteen years how his dog and him

Had traveled about

His dog up and died, he up and died, after twenty years he still grieves

He said I dance now at every chance in honky tonks

For drink and tips

But most of the time I spend behind these county bars

'Cause I drinks a bit'

He shook his head and as he shook his head

I heard someone ask him `Please'

Please ..........

Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles

Mr. Bojangles, dance!

Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles

Mr. Bojangles, dance!

Answer 9

I'm gonna say Teddy.

Don't know but your question got me poking around a bit.  Here's some of what I found:

The following exerpts are from a recently discovered "jailhouse diary" kept by a Freedom Rider named Judson Fawley. It offers a tantalizing insight into the personality of the individual know as Mr. Bojangles who would later be immortalized in song by the Nitty Gritty Dirt band.

May 31st, 1967:

Admittedly, when I first asked Mr. Bojangles to perform I expected to be regaled with a litany of traditional Blues songs and spirituals. To my great dismay, the only song in Bojangels' repertoire appears to be "If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked a Cake"

June 2nd, 1967:

I may have mentioned earlier that after twenty years Bojangles still grieves for his late dog. Hardly a night has passed wherein the old man hasn't launched into a rambling lament about the animal.

***(Curiously, the dog's name never seems to remain the same. Most of the time it's "Rex", occasionally it's "Spot" and at least once it was remembered as "Jefferson Davis", which is a rather strange name for a colored man to bestow upon anything, let alone his canine companion).***

Last night, during one of these sobbing breakdowns I placed my hand on Mr. Bojangles' shoulder and said "There, there. He was a good dog, wasn't he?"

"Not really, no. He used to S**t all o'er t' place. An' his farts - whooeee" Bojangles sputtered forth along with about a pint of saliva.

"But you really seem to miss him..."

"h**l yeah, I does. Of all the critters I ever [obscenties deleted]  . . .

June 3rd, 1967,

Perhaps most disturbing of all was Bojangles' elaboration on the reason for his incarceration which he had earlier given as "Cause I drinks a bit".  [obscenities deleted]

Answer 10

He didn't have a name in the song.  He was just referred to as 'dog'.