What Blackwood Brothers recording features the line "somebody done fell off de chair"?

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I think that's the same one with the flip side .."Somebody Done Fell Asleep On De Couch"....

Don't recall that song. I have a hazy memory of a album called "The Blackwoods Sing Bob Dylan" on which did a cover version of "Stuck in the Middle with You" with the lyrics: "I’m so scared in case I fall off my chair, and I’m wondering how I’ll get down the stairs."

JohnCBoy, I believe that you are pulling a trick on us. My Blackwood Brothers Quartet label, 1061, shows these songs: HEAVEN IS NOW IN VIEW/ECHOES OF THE PAST. SE
explain yourself. Folks, just look at the slanted song label on the record. :P

Vinylman, don't give away all my secrets! :lol:

Actually, I'm not being too tricky today. The Blackwoods did have a release on the Blackwood label that contained the words "somebody done fell off da chair". It wasn't the title of the record, but it was in the wordage.

Could the song that you have in mind someone who fell from the piano stool?
Jack Marshall did this in a concert that I attended back in about 1958.

not quite. . .

Well, it fits right in with "Can't Stand Up Alone" but I don't remember those words being in any Blackwood Bros. songs and I think that I have heard most of them. Wish I had my 78 recordings on CD instead of cassettes.

Does Sad Sam Jones ring a bell with anybody?

Would that Mr. Jones be the one that JD got his inspiration for some of his early recitations?

I remember Sad Sam but not that line.

You can get chapter & verse on BB 1189.

"Sad Sam Jones" is correct and like highpockets said, it's on Blackwood 1189.

For those of you that don't know, "Sad Sam Jones" was a politically incorrect JD Sumner discussing the problems of the church in the dialect of a black preacher. It's one of the first gospel comedy recordings.