Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). 7" Single. Original picture sleeve looks good; light scuffing, creasing and discoloration with darker spots (front/back). Minor shelf-wear along edges and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use. Black label with silver text. (Not a cut-out.)
The Blue-Tail Fly aka Jimmy Crack Corn is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's song. Over the years, several variants have appeared. The Big Rock Candy Mountains, was first recorded and copyrighted by Harry McClintock in 1928. It is a country folk song about a hobo's idea of paradise, a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne. It is a place where "hens lay soft-boiled eggs" and there are "cigarette trees". McClintock said that he wrote the song in 1895, based on tales from his youth hoboing through the United States while working for the railroad as a brakeman.