Viper's Drag

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Annotation

This instrumental composition by Fats Waller is unrelated to the Stuff Smith song If You're a Viper. Waller recorded both and the titles have sometimes been interchanged.

Annotation last modified on 2024-01-19 19:38 UTC.

Relationships

composer:Fats Waller
Wikidata:Q17148476 [info]
referred to in medleys:Fats on the Air: Sweet Georgia Brown / Viper’s Drag / Where Were You on the Night of June the Third? / The Clothes Line Ballet / Don’t Let It Bother You / The B Flat Blues / The Web Song / Honeysuckle Rose (order: 2)

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1930-11-12The Viper’s Drag (1930-11-12, mx. 10246-1)Cab Calloway and His Orchestra3:21
1934-11-16Viper’s Drag (studio, 1934-11-16: Victor matrix 86211-1)Fats Waller2:58
1935-03-11Baby Brown / Viper's Drag / How Can You Face Me / Down Home Blues (radio transcription, 1935-03-11)medleyFats Waller7:39
1935-03-11The Viper's Drag (radio transcription, 1935-03-11)Fats Waller2:24
1951-02-07Viper's DragThe Ralph Sutton Trio, George Wettling3:09
1971-06-16Medley: Blue Turning Grey Over You/ My Fate Is in Your Hands/ Viper's Drag/ I've Got a Feeling I'm Fallinglive and medleyAlain Du Bois, Romano Cavicchiolo, Henri Chaix, Jo Gagliardi, Michel Pilet, Roger Zufferey, Henri Chaix Orchestra8:45
1975-10-24Viper's DragRalph Sutton3:25
1975-11-13Viper's DragRalph Sutton4:40
1975-11-16Viper's DragRalph Sutton4:37
1976-04-17Viper's DragRalph Sutton3:25
1988-11-27Vipers DragliveRalph Sutton With Michael Silva5:11
1989-08-13Viper’s DragcoverDick Hyman2:58
1990-04-07Vipers DragRalph Sutton4:20
1993-08The Viper's DragliveRalph Sutton4:56
1996-06Viper's DragDick Hyman & Ralph Sutton5:12
1999-10-09Viper's DragliveRalph Sutton4:08
2000-03-08Viper's DragRalph Sutton / Jim Cullum3:51
2003-06-02 – 2003-06-03Viper's DragcoverAki Takase6:46
2009-06-22Viper's Dragcover and liveAki Takase9:49
The Viper’s DragSean Palmer, Company5:57
Viper's DragDick Wellstood3:54
Viper's DragRalph Sutton?:??
Viper's DragFats Waller2:59
Viper's DragJudy Carmichael3:01
Viper's DragAntti Sarpila Swing Band with special guest Bob Barnard4:40
Viper's DragliveRalph Sutton4:54
Viper’s DragcoverAllen Toussaint3:18
Viper’s DragMarc Benham5:05
Viper’s DragMartin Litton3:03
Viper’s DragNigel Kennedy6:19