What was the first drug fueled record/recording ever?

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I know there are some experts here, i've searched a lot of old threads but didn't find anything. What was the first or earliest drug fueled recording ever?

Also, which were the most realistic, drug fueled records, meaning; on which records can you explicitly hear the influence of drugs? And are there any drug fueled records that still sound trippy and druggy as of today?

― rizzx (rizzx), Saturday, 21 May 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Mojo Magazine put out a cover mount CD a few years ago called Feed Your Head in the Dec 2002 issue that featured The 100 Greatest Drugs Songs Ever.

I don't have the magazine at hand but Harry "The Hipster" Gibson appears on the CD with "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine" and that was from the 40s. Maybe there is something even older on the CD (I'm sure the magazine is helpful in contextualizing the tracks on the CD) but there you go. Whether or not it would count in terms of what you're after, I dunno.

― gspm (gspm), Saturday, 21 May 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mystical Poems of Rumi

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 21 May 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The first New Orleans Jazz records?

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Saturday, 21 May 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Would anyone be willing to make me a CD of that Mojo CD? Must have!

I've got some Cab Calloway ("Wacky Dust" with references to cocaine). I know there's more stuff from the 30s. It's all on my iPod which isn't at my fingertips, but there is stuff out there from the 30s, maybe even the 20s.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 21 May 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I think I'm thinking about "The Man from Harlem" also

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 21 May 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

what you want is this cd, with drug referencing music from 1917-1944. its ace!

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 21 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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

Thanks!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 21 May 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Edison was ripped.

― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 21 May 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

what you want is this cd, with drug referencing music from 1917-1944. its ace!

slsk is my friend ;)

― rizzx (rizzx), Saturday, 21 May 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Pops, Fats Waller, etc.:
http://cannabisculture.com/articles/3606.html

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 21 May 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ok let me restate me initial question:

what are the most obvious drug fueled records and artists?

― rizzx (rizzx), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Every high speed pop single of recent years = the creation of cocaine and/or meth (this may be a lie)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

would be very thrilling if so

― rizzx (rizzx), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

any good essays known on this topic?

― rizzx (rizzx), Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

A famous drug fuelled record, or solo actually, is the one by Charlie Parker on "Oh Lady be Good" on one of those Jazz at the Phillharmonic records. He missed the first half of the concert because he needed to score and wandered on stage in the middle of this tune to blow one of the most famous and devestating solos ever. At that point I think he was just fixing to feel normal though. It might be interesting to ask about more specific drug types like psychadelics or something.

― Victor Scott, Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)