14. GEE, AIN'T I GOOD TO YOU? by McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Don Redman - leader, alto sax, arranger, vocal, Joe Smith - cornet, Sidney De Paris, Leonard Davis - trumpets, Claude Jones - trombone, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Theodore McCord - reeds, Fats Waller - piano, Dave Wilborn - banjo, Billy Taylor - bass horn, Kaiser Marshall - drums.
New York City, November 5, 1929.

Aw, love makes me treat you the way I do
Say, ain't I good to you?
You know there's nothing too good for a girl that's true
Oh baby, you know I'm good to you!

Fur coat for Christmas an' a diamond ring
Big padded coat, most everything
And it's love makes me treat you the way I do
Oh baby ain't I good to you!

Here we get right down to cases. We may claim to deplore the commercialization of Christmas, but much of it inevitably is about giving and getting gifts. The versatile Don Redman (1900-1964) performs here as a saxophonist, arranger, composer and bandleader. His spoken songs were reminiscent of the great African American dead-pan comic Bert Williams.

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