Pistol Packin' Mama

Al Dexter and His Troopers Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters ==Other recordings==

• According to the database of secondhandsongs.com, "Pistol Packin' Mama" has been recorded by 46 different artists as of July 2021. • The Pied Pipers featuring Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and his orchestra on Capitol Records 140, recorded on September 27, 1943. • Louis Jordan performed a "hillbilly rendition" of the song, which drew laughs, during a November 1943 appearance in a show at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. • Gene Vincent's 1960 version reached No. 15 in the UK charts and featured Georgie Fame on piano. • Peppi Borza performed a cover in 1964 whilst performing in the group Peppi and the New York Twisters. • The Flamin' Groovies did a cover the song on their 1969 debut album Supersnazz. • Stompin' Tom Connors recorded a rendition as the title track for his 1971 album. • Singer/songwriter Hoyt Axton recorded a country version of the song as the title track to his 1982 album. • Québécois singer Oscar Morin recorded a French chanson "Dans le bon vieux temps" using the same tune in the 1950s. ==Other uses==

• The Irving Berlin song "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun", from the musical Annie Get Your Gun, contains the lyric: "A man's love is mighty, he'll even buy a nightie, for a gal who he thinks is fun. But they don't buy pajamas for pistol packin' mamas." • The chorus of the song was used for the 1970s UK television advertising campaign for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles, with the punning tag line "Pastille Pickin' Mama, pass those pastilles round." • It is also continually referenced in Spike Milligan's Goodbye Soldier (1986), which is part of his memoirs of World War II and just after it. In it he states that as Mussolini did not like jazz, after he was defeated the Italians were getting into jazz, and as this song was popular at the time, this was one of the songs Milligan and his group was often asked to sing. He also states that this is one of the main songs sung by Italian jazz bands (in fact he states that some bands only ever sang this song). ==References==