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# Title Principal Artiste Composers Lyricist / Date written Place Date recorded Matrix Label&cat.no. Additional Information
1099 Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm Lew Stone and His Band Jerome Jerome / R.Byron / Walter Kent w/m `37 London April 21, 1938 DTB-3635-1-2 Dec F-6664 Dec ECM2047 (LP) As above. Both takes exist and believed issued on F-6664 although take 2 seems the more common. Take 1 on Dec ECM2047 (LP).



Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm
Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm

Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm

(Jerome Jerome / R.Byron / Walter Kent)

Lew Stone & His Band



Yasha was a prodigy, since he was a kid of three
He could play a rhapsody as good as they come
But as strange as it may be, Yasha hated melody
He had a yen for tympani, he longed to play a drum
When his mother made him practice on the fiddle every day
He'd stop right in the middle and he'd say

Mama, I wanna make rhythm
Don't want-a make music
Just wanna go ..Skat....
Skat......

Mama, I wanna get hotcha
I want-a make boombah
I wanna go gah-gah
Skat......

I've got no desire to carry a Stradivarius
But there's no limit of primitive tom-tom in my tum-tum

Oh! Mama, I wanna make rhythm
Don't want-a make music
Just wanna go ..Skat...
Skat......