by Annette Hanshaw
Recorded July 24, 1928
Accompanied
by her "Novelty Orchestra" which included
Mike Mosielo
(trumpet), Jimmy Lytell (clarinet)
Andy Sannella
(alto Saxophone and steel guitar) and Rube Bloom (piano)
Synopsis:
this song embodies the essence of what made Annette the 1920's flapper.
It involves
both the elements of the desperate torch singer, the vamp willing to risk
everything
for a no good man that doesn't even care about her. She can play
the
sad torch
singer and playful vamp in the same song and get away with it! She
sings
it with a
bit of Ruth Etting singing the sad song, and with a bit of the more mature
Ethel Waters
and perhaps
just a touch of Lee Morse. Her small ensemble is what she likes best
and her musicians
are perfectly matched on this one. As she is so often able to
accomplish
in many of her songs, she does here. The steel guitar seems to answer
her plantive
call for her man. The song is filled with hot and cold running emotions.
Her man is
hot as "Haedes" when he kisses his woman but he is cold for her.
The
song writer
is full of emotion and Annette present it just as the song writer wanted.
It exudes
with the kind of emotion only someone desperately in love can feel.
I'm so Unhappy
Left All
Alone
Ain't Got
Nobody to love now
The Man I
long for
Is not so
strong for me
He's not an
angel
but I don't
care
Perhaps a
change
will come
some day
Whatever he
is
I want to
be his weight
I don't need
a Mammy
I don't need
a friend
My heart is
broken
it won't
ever mend
I ain't much
carin'
where I will
end
but I must
have that man
I'm like an
oven
that's crying
for heat
He treats
me awful
each time
that we meet
It's just
unlawful
how that
boy can cheat
but I must
have that man
He's hot as
Haedes
the ladies
not safe in his arms
When she's
kissed
But I'm afraid
he's cooled off
and maybe
I'm ruled off his list
I'll never
be missed
I need that
person
much worse
than just bad
I'm half
alive
and he's
driving me mad
He's only
human
if he's to
be had
I Must Have
that Man
He's hot as
Haedes
the ladies
not safe in his arms
When she's
kissed
But I'm afraid
he's cooled off
and maybe
I'm ruled off his list
I'll never
be missed
I need that
person
much worse
than just bad
I'm half
alive
and he's
driving me mad
He's only
human
if he's to
be had
I Must Have
that Man
That's All!