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Byron G. Harlan with American QuartetThey Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg Around (The Missouri Dawg Song) (1912)

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Artist/Composer: Byron G. Harlan with American Quartet
Date: 1912-00-00 00:00:00

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Reviewer: bill from ellerslie - - April 10, 2009
Subject: Woof !
When I was a boy, my grandfather would pop through doorways and shout this song out to scare the kids, then he would punctuate it with an extra loud dog yelp! I had assumed he picked it up from the army. Missouri Boy's comment has confirmed my suspicions.

Reviewer: Missouri Boy - - February 24, 2008
Subject: Hound Dog Song
Here's a completely different take on "You gotta quit kicking my dog around..." When I was stationed with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing during the Vietnam War, one of the pilots used to sing the song over the aircraft radio on the way back from a successful mission over the "north." The F-4 Phantom pilots were supposed to stay off the airwaves, but if the mission was a success, over the chatter of war would come:"Every time I go to town..." It's a two chord guitar song so I picked it up and brought it home as a song for my kid. Several years ago while visiting a Presidential Campaign exhibit at the Smithsonian, I saw the song, on sheet music, on display as the campaign song for presidential candidate, Beauchamp Clark.
A little while ago I was surfing the web and found a NY TIMES article from March 1912 that said that the Beauchamp Clark campaign song that is becoming a hit was actually a 15th century German childrens song. The original German words are almost identical to words we have here. Enjoy from the Missouri Boy.

Reviewer: valley ponder - - September 6, 2007
Subject: memories of Piggot, Ark
This is very close to the version our family used to sing in Clay County, Arkansas during the 1920's and 1930's. In fact we have tapes of my grandmother and aunt singing this song. One of my very favorites and this is a great version to boot!

Reviewer: BronxAce - - September 11, 2006
Subject: Aint no redneck but I loves it
I used to listen to WWVA at nights on my Italian nonna's transister radio -- when I was a little brat living in da Bronx. On Saturdays, WWVA would smulcast (fancy shmancy word -- they didn't call it that back then) the Grand Ole Opry live -- man I loved hearing Grandpa Jones, the Carter Family, Minnie Pearl, and the others. I kept the radio under my pillow cuz me mudda wudda KILLED me if she'da hoid what I was listening to.

I was fascinated when "Mule Skinner Blues" (Fenderemen 1960) came out. I still sing it to myself occasionally.

Thems days of REAL music is gone forever, but thank God for recordings -- wax cylinder, round platter, tape and CD.

There here song about a Dawg has got my Bronx Brat seal of approval. Play it again Sam.

Reviewer: elijahradioprophet - - February 26, 2006
Subject: I sang this song in Every State + Mexico & Canaday!
I as well grew up in the Ozarks, Everton, Boone County, AR. I've been a Hobo Traveling Folk Singer since 1990, but began playing & Singing in 1958. I am now Retired & living in Tijuana...I love these old tunes & ADAMANTLY refuse to "hear" the "Shineola" that permeates "radio" now-a-days! I was working in the Branson a few years ago...I had my OWN Radio Program in Springfield in 1963 & in Paris in 1962. (Paris, Arkansas!) I was "Interrigated" by the ONLY police feller in LONDON, Arkansas about 10 years ago, Me & my WOLF, DOG....or DOG; Wolf...were walking through, I tolf him "I'm going to Walk Across the Waters, I'm going from London to Paris..." He looked confused, until I told him "I went to High School in Paris, ARK!:" He got a Charge out of that! I sat at the Horse Auction (London) & played Banjo Reels to the CADENCE of the AUCTIONEER! I Love Misic that makes me "Tappy Toed!"

Reviewer: catfishbob - - February 20, 2006
Subject: As Real as It Gets- Just a Missouri Dog Song
I sang this when I was a kid in the Ozarks- our jug band recorded it in a little studio in Branson with Andy Upchurch on piano (Fayetteville, Arkansas). I never knew where the song came from- everybody knew it, and a lot of other songs, & nobody considered concepts like "authorship"- everybody had their own verses, often extempore. I guess that's what "folk" music is. I never knew it was on a record from 1912.

Reviewer: Linh My - - July 14, 2005
Subject: This redneck loves it
Iffin ya ain't no redneck, fo gt it. Five stars for me. One star for normal people?