MOANIN' LOW
From the Broadway Revue "The Little Show" (1929)
(Howard Dietz / Ralph Rainger)
Libby Holman (Broadway Production) - 1929
The Charleston Chasers (vocal: Eva Taylor) - 1929
Annette Hanshaw - 1929
Sophie Tucker - 1929
Violet Day - 1929
Lee Morse - 1929
Ben Selvin & His Orch. (vocal: Kate Smith) - 1929
The Cotton Pickers (vocal: Libby Holman) - 1929
Clarence Williams & His Blue Moaners - 1929
Jack Hylton & His Orch. (vocal: Ella Logan) - 1930
Spike Hughes & His Dance Orch. - 1930
Reuben Reeves River Boys (vocal: Blanche Calloway) - 1930
Miff Mole's Molers (Instr.) - 1930
Lud Gluskin & His Orch. - 1930
Teddy Wilson & His Orch. (vocal: Billie Holiday) - 1937
Lena Horne - 1941
Spike Jones & His City Slickers (vocal: King Jackson) - 1942
Hary James & His Orch. (Instr. - feat in the film "Young Man With A Horn") -
1950
Ella Fitzgerald - 1953
Dinah Shore - 1953
Webster Young (Instr.) - 1957
Ann Richards - 1958
Johnny Mathis - 1960
Barbra Streisand - 1975
Jackie Cain & Roy Kral - 1988
Eddie Metz & His Gang (Instr.) - 1999
Barbara Rosene - 2003
Elisabeth Kontomanou - 2007
Also recorded by:
Dan Barrett; Wild Bill Davison; Dr. Dixie Jazzband; Hal Smith;
Omer Simeon; Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Orch; Pat Yankee;
Mary Cleere Haran; Alberta Hunter; Betsy Kaske; Leo Reisman;
Spats Langham & His Hot Combination; Eddie Metz & his Gang;
Carol Fox Prescott; The Moonlighters...........and others.
As recorded by ANNETTE HANSHAW:
I feel too bad, I'm feelin' mighty sick and sore
So bad I feel, I said I'm feeling sick and sore
And so afraid, my man don't love me no more
Day in, day out, I'm worryin' about those blues
Day out, day in, I'm worryin' about bad news
I'm so afraid, my man I'm gonna lose
Moanin' low, my sweet man I love him so
Though he's mean as can be
He's the kind o' man
Needs the kind o' woman like me
Gonna die if sweet man should pass me by
If I die, where'll he be
He's the kind o' man
Needs the kind o' woman like me
Don't know any reason why he treats me so poorly
What have I gone and done
Makes my troubles double with his worries, when surely
I ain't deservin' of none
Moanin' low, my sweet man is gonna go
When he goes, O Lordy
He's the kind o' man
Needs the kind o' woman like me
(Orchestral Interlude)
Don't know any reason why he treats me so poorly
What have I gone, gone and done
Makes my troubles double with his worries, when surely
I ain't deservin' of none
Moanin' low, my sweet man is gonna go
When he goes, Lordy
He's a man that needs a woman
Just like me
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2011)
