Bad Boy
(Lillian Hardin Armstrong - Avon Long)

(lyrics)

1997 live version:

original first pressing/release:

DOUG SAHM / THE LAST REAL TEXAS BLUES BAND
SAN ANTONIO RECORDS - DOUGALIVE 1
LIVE - IN STOCKHOLM
track 6: Bad Boy
(Lillian Armstrong - Avon Long)
August 11, 2012, Sweden, digipak CD (more info)

   
   
   
   

 

original version:
(from "Brown Gal" to "Bad Boy")
 

original first pressing/release:

LIL ARMSTRONG AND HER SWING ORCHESTRA
DECCA 1092
A-side: Brown Gal
(Armstrong - Avon)
1936, USA, 10" 78rpm (more info)

  THE INK SPOTS
DECCA 2044
B-side: Brown Gal
October 1938, USA, 10" 78rpm (more info)  
  Benny Calloway & The 4 Steps Of Jive Chord 656 (1948)
Brown Gal
LIL ARMSTRONG AND HER CHICAGO BOYS
GOTHAM G-256
A-side: Brown Gal
(Long - Armstrong)
1950, USA, 10" 78rpm (more info)
  AL SEARS & THE SPARROWS
CORAL 65023
B-side: Brown Boy (3:03)
(vocal by Clarence Palmer)
February 1950, USA, 7" 45rpm (more info)
  CLARENCE PALMER & THE JIVE BOMBERS
SAVOY
  The Jive Bombers Savoy 1508 (1956 version)
Bad Boy
1956, USA, see http://www.colorradio.com/jivebombers.htm
  The Jazzbombers featuring Bobby Boyd Tattler 1001 (1957)
Bad Boy
40943

BIG DADDY AND HIS BOYS
KING 5013
A-side: Bad Boy (2:49)
(Lil Armstrong)
1957, USA, 7" 45rpm (more info)

  Chuck “Tequila” Rio Challenge 59019 (1958)
Bad Boy
  Clarence Palmer & The Jive Bombers (1956) three out of four Sparrows as Bad Boy; one of their other famous songs is Cherry; both in film Cry-Baby
  Ringo Starr (1978) idem, Mink DeVille (1980) idem, Buster Poindexter (1987) idem, Doug Sahm (1994) idem,
   
   
   
   
   
links: originals.be

 

also covered by:
  RINGO STARR
 
1976, USA, LP (http://www.jpgr.co.uk/p2310599.html)
  MINK DeVILLE
 
1980, USA,
  BUSTER POINDEXTER
 
 
1987, USA,
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

live versions by Doug Sahm:

1997-08-01 DOUG SAHM & THE LAST REAL TEXAS BLUES BAND - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Paradiso   
1997-08-02 DOUG SAHM & THE LAST REAL TEXAS BLUES BAND - Belgium - Lokeren - "Lokerse Feesten" 
1997-08-11 DOUG SAHM & THE LAST REAL TEXAS BLUES BAND - Sweden - Stockholm - Riksscenen
1998-05-09 THE LAST REAL TEXAS BLUES BAND featuring DOUG SAHM - USA - Dallas, TX - Gypsy Tea Room

 

live versions by other artists:
MINK DeVILLE 1981-11-26 Netherlands - Apeldoorn - Orpheus
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

lyrics:

Bad Boy
(Lil Armstrong and Avon Long)


The Jive Bombers


Peaked at # 36 in 1957
the only charted single for Earl Johnson, Clarence Palmer, Al Tinney, and Willia "Pee Wee" Tinney


I'm just a bad boy, (boy)
All dressed up in fancy clothes
I'm takin' the trouble
To blow my bubbles away

Bad boy (boy)
Life is just a bowl of cherries
I'm takin' the trouble
To turn my nights into days

The hot, blazin' sun (doo-doo, doo-doo)
Won't hurt my head (doo-doo, doo-doo)
'cause you'll always find me (doo-doo, doo-doo)
Right there in the shade (doo-doo, doo-doo)
I can see all the folks (doo-doo, doo-doo)
They're laughin' at me (doo-doo, doo-doo)
'cause I'm just naturally crazy

Bad boy (boy)
All dressed up in fancy clothes
I'm takin' the trouble
To blow my bubbles away

The hot, blazin' sun (doo-doo, doo-doo)
Won't hurt my head (doo-doo, doo-doo)
'cause you'll always find me (doo-doo, doo-doo)
Right there in the shade (doo-doo, doo-doo)
I can see all the folks (doo-doo, doo-doo)
They're laughin' at me (doo-doo, doo-doo)
'cause I'm just naturally lazy

Bad boy (ahh)
All dressed up in fancy clothes
I'm takin' the trouble
To blow my bubbles away
BAD BOY