"Hokum Boys" was the billing (or part of the billing) of multiple jazz bands (typically, just studio grouping of musicians[1]) active in 1920s and 1930s. The hokum subgenre of blues music got its name from these bands.
"Hokum", originally a vaudeville term used for a simple performance bordering on vulgarity,[2] but hinting at a smart wordplay, was first used in a billing of a race record for Tampa Red's Hokum Jazz Band (Tampa Red and Georgia Tom).[3] After releasing a big hit, "It's Tight Like That", with Vocalion Records (and its sequel) in 1928, the musicians went on to Paramount Records where they were called The Hokum Boys. Other recording studios joined the fray using similarly named ensembles. The groups continued into the 1930s, with Big Bill Broonzy joining forces with Georgia Tom as Famous Hokum Boys[4] on records for the American Record Corporation, joined occasionally by Frank Brasswell, Mozelle Alderson, and possibly Arthur Petties.[5]
Personnel of the bands varied,[3] and identification of many musicians is speculative. The list of session musicians includes Bob Robinson, Banjo Ikey Robinson, Alex Hill, Casey Bill Weldon, Blind Blake, Aletha Dickerson, Jimmy Blythe, Teddy Edwards, Washboard Sam, and Black Bob. Ikey Robinson, Alex Hill, and Cecil Scott were billed as Hokum Trio.[5]
"HokumBoys" was the billing (or part of the billing) of multiple jazz bands (typically, just studio grouping of musicians) active in 1920s and 1930s....
Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make humorous, sexual innuendos....
billed as The HokumBoys. Their track, written by Dorsey, "I Had to Give Up Gym" was an early dirty blues song, sometimes described as hokum. His groups...
pianist was Judson Brown. She was a one-time vocalist for the Famous HokumBoys in 1930 and toured and recorded as a backing vocalist for other blues...
any other bluesman before or since, including in his repertoire ragtime, hokum, country blues, urban blues, jazz-tinged songs, folk songs and spirituals...
recorded by Blue Lu Barker and Louis Armstrong among others. Dirty rap Hokum "Dirty Blues | Music Highlights". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-05-07. "Press...
two recorded almost 90 sides, sometimes as the HokumBoys or, with Frankie Jaxon, as Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band. In 1928 and 1929, besides making their...
Hamilton Green Joe Green Mal Hallett Mike Hanapi Annette Hanshaw Joe Haymes HokumBoys Hoosier Hot Shots Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon Gene Kardos Ed Kirkeby Lead...
time, Daniels also contributed to an acoustic string-band called the HokumBoys, who produced mainly old-time country music. Daniels continued on in the...
controversial Archway extension in 1984 Ian Gomm, musician/composer Robert Hokum, musician Sir Richard Greenbury, Chief Executive from 1988 to 1999 of Marks...
filled with banal chatter about "dreams" and ends with TV-style happy-family hokum […]. But it also has some snappy sitcom dialogue." He also wrote that "Marshall...
Hinckley, David (October 17, 2008). "'Ladies of the House' is homey Hallmark hokum". New York Daily News. Carson, Blackwelder. "Samuel L. Jackson, Gabrielle...
over-the-top, stridently nationalistic but undeniably entertaining slice of hokum." During this phase of his career, Deol avoided traditional action films...
both black and white, religious songs, blues, ragtime, vaudeville, and hokum. Examples include the Appalachian technique of eefing and the blues song...
Morehouse called the movie "absolutely the worst flicker I ever saw, pure hokum." In October 1918, Cobb enlisted in the Chemical Corps branch of the United...
given a credit in the film for her perfume. Dubbed "marshmallow-weight hokum" by Variety upon its release in April, the film was "uniformly panned" but...
man's hillbilly". Evening Standard. p. 25. Retrieved September 4, 2022. "Hokum or Yoakam?". Dallas Observer. April 13, 2006. Retrieved September 3, 2022...
pseudo-spiritual hokum, along with the over-ramped onslaught of special effects—some of them quite amazing—will hold 14-year-old boys in rapture, not to...
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