I Ain't Got Nobody

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This article is about the Spencer Williams song commonly combined with "Just a Gigolo". For the Sly and the Family Stone song "I Ain't Got Nobody (For Real)", see Dance to the Music (Sly and the Family Stone album) § Track listing.
"I Ain't Got Nobody"
Sheet music cover
Song
Published1915
GenreJazz
Composer(s)Spencer Williams
Lyricist(s)Roger A. Graham
Audio
Recording of I Ain't Got Nobody, performed by Marion Harris (1921)

"I Ain't Got Nobody" (sometimes referred to as "I'm So Sad and Lonely" or "I Ain't Got Nobody Much") is a popular song copyrighted in 1915.

Mos Def
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Attribution

Chicago and Saint Louis ragtime pianist and blues composer Charles Warfield (1878–1955) claimed to have originally written the song[3] and a copyright dated April 1914 attributes Warfield as the composer, David Young as the lyricist, and Marie Lucas as the arranger. The song title is "I Ain't Got Nobody and Nobody Cares for Me". Spencer Williams' copyright entry from 1916 under a shorter title attributes the composition to Davy Peyton and himself and the lyrics to publisher Roger Graham.[4]

In 1916, Frank K. Root & Co., a Chicago publisher[5] (né Frank Kimball Root; 1856–1932), acquired the Craig & Co. copyright, and, later that year, also acquired the Warfield-Young copyright.[6]

Clarence E. Brandon Sr. and Billy Smythe, both St. Louis musicians, both claim that they wrote the first version, words and music of "I Ain't Got Nobody", filed two copyrights in 1911, and published it that same year.[2]

"Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" medley

"I Ain't Got Nobody" is best known in a form first recorded by

The Village People
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The Village People recorded a disco version of the "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" medley for their 1978 album Macho Man. Although the two songs have nothing else in common, the popularity of Prima's combination, further popularized by David Lee Roth on his 1985 EP Crazy From The Heat, has led to the mistaken perception by some that the songs are two parts of a single original composition.

In 2017, the Spanish band De Morao Swing Tablao released a version of this song by double pairing it with the popular Spanish song, "María de la O".

See also

References

  1. OCLC 71004558
  2. ^
    OCLC 30075424
  3. OCLC 71004558
  4. OCLC 50525736, 401741289
  5. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, by James Terry White, New York: James T. White Company, Vol. 17 (1920), pg. 42
  6. OCLC 38216305

External links
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