"A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid" is a jazz standard song with music by James P. Johnson[1] and lyrics by Andy Razaf[2] first published in 1930.
It was composed for the musical "The Kitchen Mechanics Revue” “a critique of political economy you can dance to.”[3] a “plotless but tightly themed musical celebrating male and female service workers as Harlem’s fountain of wealth, sanity, pleasure and art,”[4] The song has been recorded many times over the years, Roy Milton and His Solid Senders recorded a R&B version in 1947.
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