The Harlem Hamfats

About the artist

The Harlem Hamfats was a Chicago jazz band formed in 1936. Initially, they mainly provided backup music for jazz and blues singers, such as Johnny Temple, Rosetta Howard, and Frankie Jaxon for Decca Records, but when their first record "Oh Red" became a hit, it secured them a Decca contract for fifty titles. They launched a successful recording career performing danceable music. The group was not from Harlem nor were they "hamfats". The name 'hamfat'

Top songs

  1. Weed Smoker's Dream
  2. The Weed Smoker's Dream
  3. Weed Smokers Dream
  4. When The Sun Goes Down In Harlem
  5. Let's Get Drunk and Truck
  6. The garbage man
  7. Oh red
  8. Oh Red!
  9. Oh! Red
  10. The Weed Smoker's Dream (Why Don't You do Right?)
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  1. Root hog or die
  2. Hamfat swing
  3. Gonna Pitch A Boogie Woogie
  4. Black Gal, You Better Use Your Head
  5. Oh Red (1936)
  6. Weed Smokers' Dream
  7. Hallelujah joe ain't preachin' no more
  8. We Gonna Pitch a Boogie Woogie
  9. Growling dog
  10. Southern Blues
  11. Little Girl
  12. Move your hand
  13. What You Gonna Do?
  14. Let Me Feel It
  15. Tempo Di Bucket
  16. My Daddy Was A Lovin' Man
  17. Rosetta Blues
  18. Don't Start No Stuff
  19. Jam Jamboree
  20. What you gonna do
  21. She's Gone Again
  22. Bad luck man
  23. You Got The Devil To Pay
  24. You Got To Go When The Wagon Comes
  25. Lake providence blues
  26. Garbage Man (The Call of the Freaks)
  27. Live and die for you
  28. The Weed Smoker's Dream (Why Don't You Do Right)
  29. Black Gal You Better Use You Head
  30. Black gal you better use your head
  31. If You're A Viper
  32. I'm Cuttin' Out
  33. My Garbage Man
  34. You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down
  35. I Feel Like Going To Town
  36. Mellow little devil
  37. Baby Don't you Tear My Clothes
  38. The Weed Smoker's Dream (Why Don't You Do R
  39. Weed Smokers' Dream April 1936
  40. New Oh Red!
  41. I Feel Like A Millionaire
  42. The Weed Smoker's Dream (Why D
  43. If You Want To Live
  44. The Weed Smokers Dream
  45. My Daddy Was A Lovin Man
  46. Weed Smokers Dream (Why Don't You Do Now)
  47. The Candy Man
  48. Sales Tax On It (But It's the Same Thing)
  49. Garbage Man
  50. Sales Tax On It
  51. We Gonna Pitch A Boogie Woogie (Take A)
  52. Let Your Linen Hang Low
  53. Hoodooin' Woman
  54. She's Trickin' Me
  55. Let’s Get Drunk And Truck
  56. Hallelujah Joe
  57. Jam Jamborree
  58. What's My Baby Doin?
  59. What's My Baby Doin'?
  60. Who Done It?
  61. You better use your head
  62. Save Me Some
  63. Weed Smokers Dream - Digitally Re-Mastered
  64. Time's A Wastin'
  65. Hamfats Swing
  66. We're Gonna Pitch a Boogie Woogie
  67. I'm So Glad
  68. Weed Smokers' Dream 4/36
  69. Weedsmokers Dream
  70. We Gonna Pitch A Boogie Woogie (Take C)
  71. It Was Red
  72. It Will Never Happen Again
  73. Delta Bound
  74. She's A Mellow Mother For You
  75. I Love That
  76. Root Hag Or Die
  77. Ooh-Wee Babe
  78. You Drink Too Much
  79. I'd Rather Be With You
  80. Stay On It
  81. Empty Bed Blues
  82. Oh, Red!
  83. Keep It Swinging Round And Round
  84. Down In Shady Lane
  85. Trading Old Love For New
  86. My Old Lady Blues
  87. What's On Your Mind?
  88. Let´s Get Drunk and Truck
  89. When The Sun Goes Down In Harlem Hamfats
  90. Toodle Oo Blues

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