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Blues: When Santa Claus wants some lovin'

by theGrio | December 17, 2010 at 3:48 PM
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From: The Independent

Blues singers have been celebrating the festive season since the magisterial Bessie Smith revealed that “everyone must watch their step… everybody full of pep” in “At the Christmas Ball” in 1925.

But it took a performer christened William Bunch, who took the name Peetie Wheatstraw and called himself “The Devil’s Son-in-Law” and “The High Sheriff from Hell”, to hint that Santa may have ulterior motives.

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