I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
- I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate, or shorter just Sister Kate is an up-tempo jazz dance song, written by Clarence Williams and Armand Piron in the early 1920s. It is variously believed to be based on a bawdy tune by Louis Armstrong (about Kate Townsend, a murdered brothel madam) or transcribed from a version performed by Anna Jones and Fats Waller.
The lyrics of the song are narrated first person by Kate's "sister", who sings about Kate's impressive dancing skill and her wish to be able to emulate it. She laments that she's not quite "up to date", but believes that dancing like "Sister Kate" will rectify this, and she will be able to impress "all the boys in the neighborhood" like her sister.
Over the years this song has been performed and recorded by many artists, including a recent version by pop-folk duo The Ditty Bops and a 1959 version by Shel Silverstein and the Red Onion Band.
References
* [http://www.ohek.co.uk/history/sisterkate.htm Music History (Sister Kate)]
* [http://www.heptune.com/iwishico.html "Sister Kate" lyrics]
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