Heebie Jeebies (composition)

April 1926

Heebie Jeebies is a song that Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five have recorded in 1926. It was written by Boyd Atkins. The song is assigned to the genre of jazz.

Recording

Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five Heebie Jeebies took on February 26, 1926 in Chicago the following line- up:

For the recording of Heebie Jeebies no microphones were available, instead, the musicians played a big bell inside.

Publications

Heebie Jeebies was first published in April 1926 by OKeh label as gramophone records with Muskrat Ramble as a B-side. In the following decades, the song was also published on LP, CD and download. So he can be heard among other things on the Hot Fives & Sevens Boxset.

For compilation Satchmo - A Musical Autobiography of Louis Armstrong from Armstrong Heebie Jeebies 1957 took again with a different band and modified arrangement.

Reception

Heebie Jeebies was a big hit in 1926 - the first of Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five.

In retrospect, the song, like almost all the recordings of Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five or the Hot Seven is considered as one of the most important documents of jazz. In addition, Heebie Jeebies is the song that made ​​the vocal technique of Scat popular.

The music database Allmusic rated the song as follows: ". Heebie Jeebies is a tremendously important historical record and also a funny masterpiece"

Trivia

What exactly is " Heebie Jeebies " is intended to mean is not entirely clear. Maybe there is a quote from a cartoon called Barney Google, where this formulation was used "nervous" or in the sense of " jittery ".

In Chicago the title of the song by contemporaries was often used as a Winged word when greeting - " I got the Heebies " when one of them said, replied the other, " I got the Jeebies ".

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five Record label Singing Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
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