Discographic Trivia.txt
Track 19, titled "Reefer Man" and credited to Waller, is really "You'se a Viper," written and recorded by Stuff Smith in 1936 (see CC706). In 1937, Rosetta Howard had a hit record of it with the Harlem Hamfats in which she changed the lyric slightly, from "you'se a viper" to "if you're a viper," and that's the version that Fats sings. He recorded it for V-Disc under the title "You're a Viper," but it wasn't issued on V-Disc, coming out later on a French Palm Club LP. It was presumably Palm Club that renamed it to "Reefer Man," which was an unhappy choice or perhaps an outright blunder, since "Reefer Man" was a hit song by J. Russel Robinson and Andy Razaf from 1932. Cab Calloway had the hit recording of it that year (CC537) and he continued to sing it the rest of his career.
Fats's version has also been reissued under the title "The Reefer Song."
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