DOIN' THE NEW LOW-DOWN
(Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh)

Don Redman & his Orchestra (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson)

Also recorded by : Oscar Oléman; Svend Asmussen; Judy Carmichael;
Billy Cotton; Jim Cullum Jazz Band; Peter Ecklund; Duke Ellington;
Jim Galloway; Richard Greene; Bobby Hackett; Art Hodes; 
Ellis Jackson; Jazz Hot Ensemble; Isham Jones; Willie Lewis;
Gene Mayl; The Mills Brothers; Irving Mills; Don Redman;
Django Rheinhardt; San Francisco "Starlight" Orch.; Tom Saunders;
Daryl Sherman; Soprano Summit; Johnny Varro Swing 7; 
Elisabeth Welch; Lillias White; George Wright.


Listen good folks:
It isn't alcohol,
No yaller gal at all,
Thrill me, thrill me with the pep I've got!
I got a pair of feet that have found that lowdown beat,
Lowdown, down around, the spot that's hot,
Have no peace losing' my lease on livin',
Here's the how, I'm tellin' you now, to givin'
Make 'em play that crazy thing again,
I've got to do that lazy swing again,
Hi-ho, doin' the new lowdown!
Got my feet to misbehaving now,
Got a soul that's not for saving now,
Hi-ho, doin' the new lowdown!
That dancin' demon, he has my feet in a trance,
'Cause when I'm dreamin', folks, I go right into that dance!
Once you hear that haunting strain to it,
I'll bet my life you'll go insane to it,
Hi-ho, doin' the new lowdown!
(Orchestral & Tap Dancing Sequence)
Hi-ho, doin' the new lowdown!


(Contributed by Bill Huntley - February 2005)