Watermelon Man that is Mungo center a and his band that is an abbreviated and somewhat popularized rendering of a bebop jazz piece that was written by Herbie Hancock where the story goes in the fall of 1982 Herbie Hancock was filling in on piano one time with Mongo Santa Maria as band this was a jazz club and by request Herbie Hancock played the melody well of Santa Maria and his band joined in folks got up and started dancing went over pretty well so Mongo Santa Maria asked Herbie Hancock if he could maybe go ahead and record the song and presto top 10 record in the spring of 1963. I m Craig Faulkner and you are tuned to American rhythm the gourmet oldie show part one of the Thanksgiving edition of all songs about food so I want to continue here with another watermelon song this is an old traditional that was purportedly written and at least was 1st copyrighted all the way back in 1882 by one Thomas p. Westendorf under the title watermelon smiling on the vine There have been a number
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