A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid

"A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid" is a jazz standard song with music by James P. Johnson[1] and lyrics by Andy Razaf [2] first published in 1930. It was composed for the musical "The Kitchen Mechanics Revue” “a critique of political economy you can dance to.” “[3] a “plotless but tightly themed musical celebrating male and female service workers as Harlem’s fountain of wealth, sanity, pleasure and art,”[4]

The song has been recorded many times over the years, Roy Milton and His Solid Senders recorded a R&B version in 1947.[5]

Discography

References
  1. Jasen, David A., Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, Routledge, New York, 2003, p.224
  2. Waller/Razaf, American Songbook Series, The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, AD 048-21
  3. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=musicfacpub
  4. Maxwell, William J.; William Maxwell, Sir (1999). New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars. ISBN 9780231114257.
  5. Milton, Roy, Roy Milton and his Solid Senders, The Legends of Specialty Series, Specialty Records, SPCD 7004 liner notes
  6. Waller/Razaf, American Songbook Series, The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, AD 048-21
  7. Fats Waller, Fats Waller and his Rhythm: Breakin’ the Ice, The Early Years, Part 1, 1934-35, RCA, 2 CD set, liner notes by Dan Morgenstern
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