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Devil With A Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly (WORD)
Devil With A Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly (PDF)
YOU CAN PLAY IN THE SAME KEY AS THE 1 ST VIDEO FOR PART OF THE SONG! I have not added the key change for the Miss Molly section as it goes into D#. I've taken liberty with my arrangement to try to make it work well and stay interesting for BUG! We'll test it out and see how it goes!
"Good Golly, Miss Molly" is a rock 'n' roll song first recorded in 1956 by American musician Little Richard and released in January 1958 as Specialty single 624, and later on Little Richard in July 1958. The song, a jump blues, was written by John Marascalco and producer Robert "Bumps" Blackwell.
"Devil with the Blue Dress" was originally released as Shorty Long's debut single on Motown in 1964, but the single failed to chart. The song describes a femme fatale in a blue dress and not an actual devil.
Two years later, in 1966, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels recorded the song at Bell Sound Studios in New York City as a medley with an original arrangement of Little Richard's "Good Golly, Miss Molly". Their version was notably more up-tempo than Long's more blues-influenced rendition. Reaching No. 4 on the Hot 100, their version of the track would end up becoming their most well-known and highest charting hit in the United States.
Bruce Springsteen's version of the song was part of the No Nukes concert album in 1980, and he has performed it regularly in concert from the 1970s to the present as part of his Detroit Medley.