I'm looking for sheet music: I'd Give a Dollar for a Dime" & You're Luky To Me by Eubie Blake

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And also The Cactus Polka" (Jesusita En Chihuahua".

Thanks a million

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Riverwalk, Live From The Landing pays tribute to legendary songsmith, Andy Razaf, who wrote the words to hundreds of songs including Honeysuckle Rose and Ain’t Misbehavin’. This special broadcast starring The Jim Cullum Jazz Band features d**k Hyman on piano, and spectacular vocal performances by Broadway star, Vernel Bagneris, and Australian vocalist, Nina Ferro. Andy Razaf’s creativity was prodigious, his life story riveting, and his music unforgettable!

Andreamentania Paul Razafkeriefo was born in 1895 in Washington DC. But his story begins in Africa. Andrea’s father, Henri Razafkeriefo, a nobleman and warrior who was the nephew of the Queen of Madagascar, died in battle before Andrea was born. His grandfather, John Louis Waller (no relation to Fats) was a political activist and former Missouri slave who became American consul to the African country of Madagascar in the early 1890s. Andrea took his royal African ancestors as role models.

Andrea began writing song lyrics as a young boy, and sold his first song at the age of 17 while working as an elevator operator in a Tin Pan Alley office building. Predictably, the young prince’s name was botched on his first published song, which prompted him to shorten his name to Andy Razaf.

Inspired by jazz music during the early years of his career, Andy Razaf collaborated almost exclusively with the major black composers and musicians of the day including Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, and Eubie Blake.

Proud of his African-American heritage, Andy Razaf was acutely aware of the racial conflicts in America. In his compelling racial protest song, Black and Blue, Razaf demonstrates his brilliant ability to tell his own story and the story of his people. Razaf encouraged black artists of the era to perform his songs, and many did. Jazz greats like Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ethel Waters featured Razaf songs throughout their careers.

In 1972 at seventy-six years of age, Andy Razaf, the most notable and prolific black lyricist of twentieth century popular music, was finally recognized by his Tin Pan Alley peers in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The Performers:



Left to Right: Rising Australian star, vocalist Nina Ferro performs the Waller/Razaf evergreen Honeysuckle Rose. The late trumpet legend Doc Cheatham left us a heart-warming vocal on  Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?. Our good friend, pianist d**k Hyman, collaborates with our John Sheridan on a two-piano, four-handed rendition of Waller/Razaf's My Fate Is In Your Hands and The Joint Is Jumpin'.

Left to Right: Frequent Riverwalk guest Vernel Bagneris sings the well-known Waller/Razaf classics, Ain't Misbehavin' and Black and Blue. Swing legend Lionel Hampton stopped in for Memories of You, a Razaf collaboration with Eubie Blake. Joe Williams was in top form with another Blake/Razaf gem, I'd Give A Dollar For A Dime.

Ain't Misbehavin'

No one to talk with,  

All by myself,

No one to walk with,  

But I'm happy on the shelf

Ain't misbehavin' . . .

Saving my love for you!

  

I know for certain,  

The one I love,

I'm through with flirtin',  

It's just you I'm thinkin' of

Ain't misbehavin' . . .

Saving my love for you!

  

Like Jack Horner,  

In the corner,

Don't go nowhere,  

But what do I care?  

Your kisses . . .  

Are worth waitin' for

Believe me!

  

Don't stay out late,  

Don't care to go!

I'm home about eight,  

Just me an' my radio!

Ain't misbehavin' . . .

Saving my love for you!

  

Music by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks with lyrics by Andy Razaf, 1929.

This song was introduced by Margaret Simms, Paul Bass, and Russell Wooding's Hallelujah Singers in the 1929 Broadway musical Hot Chocolates. Shortly after the opening, Louis Armstrong joined the company and played the song on solo trumpet during the intermission. Fats Waller performed this song in the 1943 Hollywood movie musical Stormy Weather. It was also featured in the 1955 musical Gentlemen Marry Brunettes and again in 1955, as the title song in the musical Ain't Misbehavin'.

Here is the complete tune list for this show.

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Purchase CDs online:

Fats Waller

Nina Ferro

Vernel Bagneris

d**k Hyman

Doc Cheatham

Lionel Hampton

Joe Williams

Bobby Short: Guess Who's In Town, the Songs of Andy Razaf

Maxine Sullivan: A Tribute to Andy Razaf

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Andy Razaf Bookshelf

Black and Blue: The Life & Lyrics of Andy Razaf by Barry Singer



On the Web:

Hear Andy Razaf's lyrics online, performed by Fats Waller:

Ain't Misbehavin'

Christopher Columbus

Honeysuckle Rose

'Sposin'

Sheet Music Covers online:

Ain't Misbehavin'

More Andy Razaf Lyrics:

(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue

Honeysuckle Rose