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Happy Birthday!
The blues' first radio star,
legendary blues harmonicist
Sonny Boy Williamson #2
(ie Aleck "Rice" Miller,
who probably taught Howlin' Wolf harmonica,
SBW #1 had died in 1948)
probably was born 12/5/1899
in Glendora Mississippi
(He was also born in 1910, 1894, 1897, 1899 and 1909 -
We believe he holds the record for the Most Often Born person
in all the Happy archives.)
(d5/25/65 & 6/23/65)
He recorded one of the rare blues versions of any Child ballad
I come home one night,
I was tired as a man could be.
I saw a mule in my stable,
Whar' my mule supposed to be.
Wake up. Baby.
Explain all this stuff to me.
Who's mule's that in my stable,
Whar' my mule supposed to be?
Said, "You must be silly, you talk right funny,
Why don't you open up your eyes and see,
You know that ain't nothin' but a milk-cow,
That my mother sent to me."
I been all over the world.
To Gulf of Mexico.
I never saw no milk-cow,
With a saddle on its back befo'.
etc.
"Wake Up Baby," Child #274
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