Flamin' Mamie is a 1925 jazz classic composed by Paul Whiteman

Paul Whiteman

Paul Samuel Whiteman was an American bandleader and orchestral director.Leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, Whiteman's recordings were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz"...

 and Fred Rose

Fred Rose (musician)

Fred Rose was an American Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.-Biography:Born in Evansville, Indiana, Fred Rose started playing piano and singing as a small boy. In his teens, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he worked in bars busking for tips, and finally vaudeville...

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Paul Whiteman wrote "Flamin' Mamie" in 1925 with Fred Rose as a "Fox Trot Song" on Jazz Age themes relying on the 1920s image of the vamp: "A Red Hot Stepper". It was one of the top hits of 1925.

Recordings

The song was recorded by the Harry Reser Band, Merritt Brunies and the Friars Inn Orchestra, Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, the Six Black Diamonds in 1926 on Banner, the Toll House Jazz Band, Aileen Stanley

Aileen Stanley

Aileen Stanley, born Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge , was a popular American singer.-Early life:...

 in 1925 with Billy "Uke" Carpenter on the ukulele, Hank Penny

Hank Penny

Herbert Clayton Penny was an accomplished banjo player and practitioner of western swing. He worked as a comedian best known for his backwoods character "That Plain Ol' Country Boy" on TV with Spade Cooley...

 in 1938, Turk Murphy

Turk Murphy

Melvin Edward Alton “Turk” Murphy was renowned as a trombonist who played traditional and dixieland jazz in San Francisco....

, the Frisco Syncopators, the Firehouse Five Plus Two

Firehouse Five Plus Two

The Firehouse Five Plus Two was a Dixieland jazz band, popular in the 1950s, consisting of members of the Walt Disney Studios animation department;-Members:Danny Alguire — cornetHarper Goff — banjo...

, Ray Pearl and His Orchestra in 1947 on Bullet Records as a 78, 1007A, Bob Schulz and His Frisco Jazz Band, and the Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra led by Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders

Joe Sanders

Joseph L. "Joe" Sanders was an American jazz pianist, singer, and bandleader associated with Kansas City jazz for most of his career....

 with Joe Sanders on vocals. The lyrics describe Mamie as a Roaring Twenties vamp: "Flamin' Mamie, a sure-fire vamp/When it comes to lovin'/She's a human oven/Come on you futuristic papas/She's the hottest thing he's seen since the Chicago fire."

Willie Dixon

Willie Dixon

William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...

wrote a song with the same title in 1977 with Penny Page whose copyright was registered on August 9, 1979 that uses the same themes and lyrics as the Paul Whiteman and Fred Rose song without acknowledgement.

Sources

• Berrett, Joshua (2004). Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz. Yale University Press. p. 123. ISBN 9780300103847.
• Paul Whiteman: Pioneer of American Music (Volume 1: 1890–1930), Studies in Jazz, No. 43, by Don Rayno, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003.
• Pops: Paul Whiteman, King of Jazz, by Thomas A. DeLong, New Century Publishers, 1983.
• Jazz by Paul Whiteman, J. H. Sears, 1926.
• How To Be A Band Leader by Paul Whiteman and Leslie Lieber, Robert McBride & Company, 1948.

External links

• Lyrics to 1925 "Flamin' Mamie" by Paul Whiteman and Fred Rose: http://www.rebelgraphics.org/milka.html.
• Lyrics to 1977 "Flamin' Mamie" by Willie Dixon and Penny Page: http://www.lyricstime.com/willie-dixon-flamin-mamie-lyrics.html