John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson : Good Morning Little School Girl
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This topic made me think of Chuck Berry, of course, but I thought I'd rather take you to where Chuck came from. Old blues songs were full of underage beauties, and among them, this classic recorded by John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, the first Sonny Boy Williamson, born in 1914 in Jackson, TN and dead in June 1946 when a jealous husband pierced his skull with an icepick. John Lee was a very influential harmonica player . Probably borrowed from Sleepy John Estes'repertoire, this song, recorded on his very first session in 1937, became an instant succes, a blues standard and was covered by Junior Wells and the Yardbirds.