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Have you heard the original version of "Truckin'"? :-)

...done by Duke Ellington in the early '30s with vocalist Ivie Anderson? From memory, it starts like this:

"They had to have something new
A dance to do up there in Harlem, so
Folks started truckin'."

I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it may have involved sticking one's feet way forward like the illustrations in the R. Crumb cartoons :-). I first discovered this song in my parents' LP collection in the early '70s when I was a teenager. I figured it must have been where Crumb got his idea.


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