| # | Title | Principal Artiste | Composers | Lyricist / Date written | Place | Date recorded | Matrix | Label&cat.no. | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1105 | 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). |
(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......