Lil McClintock

about

Lil McClintock, of Clinton, South Carolina, was auditioned in 1930 by Burm Lawson, the manager of Cooper's Furniture Store in nearby Union, who acted as a talent scout for Columbia Records. McClintock practiced in the store's backroom before catching a train to Atlanta, where he recorded four sides, including "Don't Think I'm Santa Claus". This medley combines four ragtime songs that were published more than two decades earlier: "You Must Think I'm Santa Claus" (1904), "By the Watermelon Vine, Lindy Lou" (1904), "Keep a Little Cozy Corner in Your Heart for Me" (1905), and "Everybody Works but Father" (1905). As Richard Raichelson has pointed out: "The medley could well have been contrived for the finale act of a minstrel show where such a presentation would conclude the proceedings with a grand climax." The name "Lil" is probably short for "Little". User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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albums

Goodbye, Babylon

Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926–1937

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Goodbye, Babylon, Vol. 1

Furniture Man

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Goodbye, Babylon (Disc 1)

Death Might Be Your Santa Claus

Goodbye, Babylon CD 01 - Introduction

Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937

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Goodbye, Babylon CD 1 - Introduction

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100 Christmas Blues - Songs to Get You Through the Cold

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Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926-1937, #1

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Goodbye, Babylon (disc 1: Introduction)

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