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 HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO PICK UP A COPY OF THIS PEGGY LEE / BENNY GOODMAN CLASSIC ON THE UK PARLOPHONE LABEL

WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT

(AND GET ME SOME MONEY TOO)

JOE McCOY'S CLASSIC BLUES LAMENT ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR HIS BAND "THE HARLEM HAMFATS" UNDER THE TITLE "THE WEED SMOKERS DREAM"!

THIS WAS SAMPLED BY "GRAMOPHONEDZIE" and made it into the charts in 2009

The song tells the narrative of a woman who is complaining about her partner's apparent financial insolvency. She states that he was financially well off in 1922, but now has nothing. She claims it is because he wasted it on other women, and that these lovers will no longer show any interest in him now that he's poor. She claims that he tricked her into a relationship where all he has to offer her is 'a drink of gin'. She ends each verse asking why the man doesn't 'do right' by her, and then throws him out, insisting that he go earn a living in order to support her.

The song has its roots in blues music and deals with themes that were common following the Great Depression and prohibition: the narrator is suggesting that the man is destitute because he has been used by other women, then demands money from him for her benefit.

You had plenty money, 1922 

You let other women make a fool of you 

Why don't you do right? like some other men do 

Get out of here and get me some money too.

There have been many recorded versions of this song. This is Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee's version first recorded in 1942 and released in the UK in 1943.

The song is also notably performed in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit by the animated character Jessica Rabbit. Although actress Kathleen Turner provided the voice acting for the character, the vocal performance on the song is performed by actress Amy Irving.

You can also hear this in the movie "Stage Door Canteen" (1943) and in the game "Mafia 2" (2010) and "Fallout: New Vegas" (2010).

In 2009, the song was given a house remix by Gramophonedzie on their EP "Swingin With The Fishes", and retitled as 'Why Don't You' 

DISC DETAILS

UK PARLOPHONE R 2864   10" SHELLAC 78rpm 

A SIDE:  WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT

B SIDE:  SIX FLATS UNFURNISHED (Instrumental)  

CONDITION - E-   

some very light scuffs and marks but the record plays GREAT

A CLASSIC ORIGINAL UK PEGGY LEE / BENNY GOODMAN 78

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THE GREG'S GREAT'S SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INNER BOX MADE OUT OF 1" THICK POLYSTYRENE, WHICH THEN GOES INSIDE A DOUBLE CORRUGATED STIFF OUTER CARDBOARD CARTON. THE BOXES CAN TAKE UP TO 21 RECORDS,

I SEND OUT ON AVERAGE ABOUT 30 PARCELS A WEEK AND DISPATCH IS NORMALLY DONE ONCE A WEEK