All political rallies should have the smell weed in the air. It helps to cut through the BS.

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Track Listing
Disc 1
Sendin' the Vipers - Mezz Mezzrow
Vipers Drag - Fats Waller
When I Get Low I Get High - Chick Webb
I'm Gonna Get High - Tampa Red
Spinach Song - Julia Lee
Do You Dig My Jive - Sam Price
Ol' Man River - Cootie Williams
Knockin Myself Out - Yack Taylor
Reefer Man - Harlan Lattimore
The Man from Harlem - Cab Calloway
Here Comes the Man With the Jive -Stuff Smith
If You're a Viper - Bob Howard
Texas Tea Party - Benny Goodman
Light Up - Buster Balley's Rhythm Busters
Jack I'm Mellow - Trixie Smith
Sweet Marihuana Brown - Barney Bigard
Viper Mad - Sidney Bechet with Noble Sissle's Swingers
Weed Smokers Dream - Harlem Hamfats
The 'G' Man for the 'T' Man - Cee Pee Johnson
All the Jive Is Gone - Andy Kirk
Stuff Is Here - Georgia White
Weed - Bea Foote
Knockin' Myself Out - Lil Green
If You're a Viper - Lorrain Walton
Save the Roach for Me - Buck Washington

Disc 2
Killin' Jive - The Cats & The Fiddle
Mary Jane - Meltone Boys
Sweet Sue, Just You - Louis Armstrong
Hit That Jive Jack - Nat King Cole
All Teeed Up - Sam Price
Golden Leaf Strut - Original New Orleans Rhythm Kings
Reefer Head Woman - Jazz Gillum
Blue Reefer Blues - Richard Jones
I'se A-Muggin, Pt. 1 - Mezz Mezzrow
I'se A-Muggin, Pt. 2 - Mezz Mezzrow
Jive Man Blues - Frankie Jaxon
Knocking Myself Out - Big Bill Broonzy & Jean Brady
Muggin' the Blues - Richard Jones
Mellow Stuff - Lil Johnson
Minor Goes a Muggin' - Tommy Dorsey
Reefer Man - Cab Calloway
Try Some of That - Oscars Chicago Swingers
Dopey Joe - Slim & Slam
The Stuff Is Here - Cleo Brown
Don't Credit My Stuff - Cedar Creek Sheik
A Vipers Moan - Willie Bryant
Chant of the Weed - Don Rodman
Smoking Reefers - Larry Adler
Muggles - Louis Armstrong
Willie the Weeper - Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon

Flashbacks #1 DrugSongs 1917-1944

1. The Ink Spots - That Cat Is High
2. Champion Jack Dupree - Junker's Blues
3. Harry "The Hipster" Gibson - Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine
4. Blue Lu Barker - Don't You Make Me High
5. Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - I'm Wild About My Stuff
6. Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys - You're A Viper
7. McKinney Cotton Pickers - Selling That Stuff
8. Peter Cleighton and Blind John Davis - Moonshine Man Blues
9. Florence Desmond - Cigarettes, Cigars
10. Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Minnie the Moochers Wedding Day
11. Cab Calloway - The Ghost Of Smokey Joe
12. Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians - Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee
13. Victoria Spivey and Lonnie Johnson - Dope Head Blues
14. Ella Fitzgerald - Wacky Dust (feat. Chick Webb and His Orchestra)
15. Bukka White - Fixin' to Die Blues
16. Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues
17. Baron Lee and the Blue Rhythm Band - Reefer Man
18. Dick Justice - Cocaine
19. Asa Martin - Jake Walk Papa
20. Louis Armstrong - Kincin' The Gong Around
21. Rosetta Howard and the Harlem Hamfats - The Candy Man
22. Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Orchestra - Repeal The Blues
23. Gene Krupa and His Orchestra - Feeling High And Happy
24. Jean Brady and Big Bill Broonzy - Knocking Myself Out
25. Herbert Payne - Smoke Clouds

Fats Waller


Ella Fitzgerald

It'd be interesting to be able to establish exactly how prevalent cannabis use was during those days... I'm sure it wasn't a big deal for them, since it was legal, sold in medecines and grown by the acre. I wish we had some first hand accounts, in print.

My next question would be how prevalent is cannabis in the modern day jazz scene?


I have not been able to link these two people to cannabis.
Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island

Stanley Jordan - Tapping Jazz - David Letterman

The Ink Spots


Champion Jack Dupree


Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson


Blue Lu Barker


Memphis Minnie


Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie

Stuff Smith


McKinney Cotton Pickers


Mills Blue Rythm Band



Cab Calloway


Chick Webb



Harlem Hamfats