Youre No Good - Jesse Fuller https://plus.google/b/114972365014876681245/114972365014876681245/posts/YV84w4ciDn3 Wikipedia entry for Jesse Fuller: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Fuller He [Fuller] came west and in the 1920s worked briefly as a film extra in The Thief of Bagdad and East of Suez. Eventually he settled in Oakland, California, across the bay from San Francisco, where he worked for the Southern Pacific railroad. During World War II, he worked as a shipyard welder, but when the war ended he found it increasingly difficult to find work. Around the early 1950s, Fullers thoughts turned toward the possibility of making a living playing music. Up to this point, Fuller had never worked professionally as a musician, but had certainly been exposed to music, and had learned to play guitar and picked up quite a number of songs: country blues, work songs, ballads, spirituals and instrumentals. And he had carried his guitar with him and played for money by passing the hat. When he decided to try to work as a professional, he found it hard to find other musicians to work with: thus his one-man band act was born. Starting locally, in clubs and bars in San Francisco and across the bay in Oakland and Berkeley, Fuller became more widely known when he performed on television in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles, and in 1958 his recording career started with his first album on the Good Time Jazz record label. Fullers instruments included 12-string guitar, harmonica, kazoo, cymbal (high-hat) and fotdella, several of which could be played simultaneously, particularly with the use of a head-piece to hold the harmonica and kazoo, often at the same time. Much later, the Grateful Dead covered a few of Fullers songs, including The Monkey and the Engineer and Beat It on Down the Line. Others who have covered his work include Hot Tuna, Peter, Paul and Mary, Glenn Yarbrough, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and Bob Dylan, on his debut in 1962. ___________________________________________ Bob Dylan and Jesse Fuller: Paul Williams in his book Bob Dylan Performing Artist 1960-1973 wrote about Bob Dylan: He did go off to Colorado sometime in the summer of 1960, played briefly in a burlesque house, and played and hung out at a folk club in Denver. He met Jesse Fuller, and may have learned from him about the harmonica holder (which allows simultaneous guitar and harmonica playing, an important part of Dylans subsequent performance style). (Williams, p. 12-13) _ _ _ Bob Dylan recorded his version of Youre No Good as the opening track for his debut eponymous album. Listen here: grooveshark/#!/s/You+re+No+Good/4d9col?src=5 Recording session information: Studio A Columbia Recording Studios New York City, New York 20 & 22 November 1961 The Bob Dylan recording sessions, produced by John Hammond. bjorner/DSN00020%201961.htm#DSN00110 _ _ _ In No Direction Home, Robert Shelton wrote about Youre No Good: A sprightly jape out of Jesse Fullers song bag... typical Fuller gamesmanship becomes, in Dylans hands, a nonsense song of the beleaguered male running down the offending female in his life. Youre No Good was inaccurately listed on the label of some American pressings and the British LP (CBS 62022) as Shes No Good. Programmed because of its brightness and tempo, the song scarcely proclaims a new singer of stature. Yet, the voices spirit, drive, timbre, bite and propulsion win attention, as does the instrumental work. At the break, Dylan builds his own one-man band. His galloping mouth harp talks to the guitar, which answers right back. Then the voice soars again, and the colloquy continues. Soon we have a rollicking tumble of witty nonsense. The guitar work is quite clean here. As Dylan gets into the song the broadness of his put-on comes forward, culminating in a couple of vocal riffs that suggest Elliott at his slyest. Youre No Good is one of the albums brightest moments. This old man is comic. (Shelton, p. 118) _ _ _ In his book The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, Michael Gray includes an extensive entry about Fuller. Gray writes: The notes to Bob Dylan say that Youre No Good was learned from Jesse Fuller, and indeed it must have been learned in person back in Denver, since Fuller didnt record the song himself until 1963. Dylan says in the Biograph notes that his own song Baby, Im In The Mood For You (recorded at the Freewheelin session of July 9, 1962 but unreleased until on Biograph) was probably influenced by Jesse Fuller too. (Gray, p. 251) Hear the Fuller-influenced Baby, Im In The Mood For You here: grooveshark/#!/s/Baby+I+m+In+The+Mood+For+You/2M0W5Z?src=5 Baby, Im In The Mood For You Studio A Columbia Recording Studios New York City, New York 9 July 1962 The 3rd Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan session, produced by John Hammond. bjorner/DSN00150%201962.htm#DSN00230 ___________________________________________
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