| "Good Morning, School Girl" | ||||
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| Single by Sonny Boy Williamson I | ||||
| B-side | "Sugar Mama Blues" | |||
| Released | 1937 | |||
| Format | 10" 78 rpm record | |||
| Recorded | Aurora, Illinois May 5, 1937 |
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| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 3:00 | |||
| Label | Bluebird (Cat. no. 7059) | |||
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"Good Morning, School Girl" or "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" is a blues standard that has been "covered countless times across the decades".[1] First recorded by John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, later it was a R&B chart success for Smokey Hogg and has been recorded by a variety of artists.
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Sonny Boy Williamson I recorded "Good Morning, School Girl" in 1937 during his first recording session for Bluebird Records. The song, an uptempo blues with an irregular number of bars,[2] featured Williamson (vocal and harmonica) with Big Joe Williams and Robert Lee McCoy (also known as Robert Nighthawk) (guitars).
Texas bluesman Smokey Hogg recorded his version, calling it "Little School Girl". In 1950, the song reached #5 in the Billboard R&B chart.[3] In the late 1950s and early 1960s, several versions of "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" were recorded as acoustic country-style blues, including versions by John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Muddy Waters and Doctor Ross. In 1965, Junior Wells with Buddy Guy recorded it as a Chicago blues, with a distinctive guitar and bass line, for their influential Hoodoo Man Blues album.
In 1961, Don Level and Bob Love, as the R&B duo "Don & Bob", recorded a different version of "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" for Argo Records, a Chess subsidiary.[4] Although it uses the phrase "good morning little schoolgirl", the song has different chord changes and lyrics, including references to popular dance styles of the time.[5] The Yardbirds with Eric Clapton later covered this version of "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl" for their second UK single in 1964.[5] The song reached #49 in the UK[6] and although the single was not released in the U.S., it was included on the Yardbirds' first American album, For Your Love. A live version of the song was included on Five Live Yardbirds, which featured "Eric [Eric Clapton] and Sam [Paul Samwell-Smith] singing together and" lead singer Keith Relf "not singing".[7] The Yardbirds versions were credited to "H.G. Demarais",[8] although some later reissues are credited to Sonny Boy Williamson; the performing rights organization BMI[9] lists the Don & Bob version writers as Level and Love.
Many blues and other artists have recorded Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", including:
In 1990, Sonny Boy Williamson I's "Good Morning, School Girl" was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in the "Classics of Blues Recordings – Single or Album Track" category.[10]
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