1/26/2006 - Hey Little Girl
Song: Hey Little Girl
Artist: Professor Longhair
Why this song is the current jam: This song is some quintessential Professor here. The rhythm is jsut slammin, and it is just as leering and sexy as his vocals. There is something about the playful way that he does the dirty old man in this song that makes me think of a sweaty, boozy night in New Orleans, in a tiny bar filled with music and people dancing all smushed up on eachother. This, to me, is a song to get your blues on to. 1 - it is a blues song, 2 - sounds like dancing close, 3 - if you feel like getting sexy with it, well that is there too. There is also something about the beat of this track, the way it rolls along with the piano, that is completely New Orleans. Me wish me could talk gooder about it. Hulk smash.
Artist: Professor Longhair
Why this song is the current jam: This song is some quintessential Professor here. The rhythm is jsut slammin, and it is just as leering and sexy as his vocals. There is something about the playful way that he does the dirty old man in this song that makes me think of a sweaty, boozy night in New Orleans, in a tiny bar filled with music and people dancing all smushed up on eachother. This, to me, is a song to get your blues on to. 1 - it is a blues song, 2 - sounds like dancing close, 3 - if you feel like getting sexy with it, well that is there too. There is also something about the beat of this track, the way it rolls along with the piano, that is completely New Orleans. Me wish me could talk gooder about it. Hulk smash.
posted by Peetski at 5:30 PM
3 Comments:
Tyler (at the Rez) does a lot of Prof. Longhair tunes....not this one though. It wouldn't have the same effect (he sounds sweet, not lecherous) but I wouldn't mind hearing it anyway, and hey...I can take on the lecherous role :) No problem.
I really like the Longhair stuff, but it really does all sound kind of the same. It's a good thing though, because as soon as one of his songs comes one I know immediately that it's him. And really that's what makes a lot of artists who they are - immediate recognition factor. (Same with a lot of the best opera singers). And that sound that I immediately recognize truly is the sound of New Orleans to me.
Ash
If you like “Hey Little Girl”, you probably would appreciate “Hey Now Baby”, too.
As Jerry Wexler described in his article “Finding Professor Longhair”: “... instead of a full band, I saw only a single musician – Prof. Longhair – playing these weird, wide harmonies, using the piano as both keyboard and bass drum, pounding a kick plate to keep time and singing in the open-throated style of the blues shouters of old.” Prof. Longhair indeed gives you a different perspective of “piano.”
When it comes to New Orleans piano, we all need to take a bow to Prof. Longhair.
J.
What I think iss super hot about the prof is that he got that really hot back beat from kicking his piano as he played. Klassy.
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