Talk:Ain't Nobody's Business

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What in the devil makes your bots think there is much more to say about this song to get it out of stub class? The article is pretty much complete. Ortolan88 (talk) 21:14, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Bert Williams recording - 1919

The legendary singer Bert Williams recorded the title "IT'S NOBODYS BUSINESS BUT MY OWN" on or about 16 April, 1919 Bert Williams - "It's Nobody's Business But My Own" - 1919 , which is a sort of talking song with orchestral accompaniement. The lyrics aren't identical to the later versions, but the general idea and theme are there. --Elimarcus (talk) 07:07, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

William's song was a huge seller for 1919 – Columbia shipped almost 200,000 copies. It must have inspired songs that followed. However, I haven't found a reliable source that discusses it as an earlier version of the Grainger-Robbins song. Apparently, setting up a situation and responding with the hook line "it's nobody's business but my own" has been around for a while. "Nobody's Business but Our Own", a minstrel song published in 1882, uses it to conclude the verse sections. If there are no objections, maybe these can be mentioned as background in the "Compostion and lyrics" section. —Ojorojo (talk) 17:43, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

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Horns?

This is jazz-musician talk. For an encyclopaedia it needs to be explained that ‘horns’ refers to brass wind-blown musical instruments, viz. trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn, saxophones, tuba, sousaphone etc etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:B136:FEF8:B9C4:7BBD (talk) 08:38, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

What about woodwinds? —Ojorojo (talk) 16:13, 30 September 2020 (UTC)