That's All Right (II)

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: (("That's all right") (3x), "mama, Any way you do.")) Verses: mama and papa tell me "that gal you're fooling with Ain't no friend to you"; Singer is leaving town and "mama" "won't be bothered with me Hanging around your door"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (recording, Crudup)
KEYWORDS: love parting travel nonballad lover
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup,"That's All Right" (Victor 20-2205, 1946)
Scott Dunbar, "That's Alright Mama" (on USDunbarS01)
Elvis Presley, "That's All Right" (Sun 209, 1954)
NOTES [42 words]: The description follows Presley whose record is clearly Dunbar's source, down to the final verse mouth music. Crudup has a verse that neither Presley nor Dunbar sing: "One and one is two, Two and two is four, I love that woman But I got to let her go." - BS
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