[2] This sales figure is disputed, but the recording was "immensely popular... and became a standard among Mississippi and Memphis bluesmen".

[7] The song's melody line was re-used and developed by Charlie Patton ("Going to Move to Alabama") and Hank Williams ("Move It on Over") before emerging in "Rock Around the Clock", and its lyrical content presaged Leiber and Stoller's "Kansas City".

[3] The song contains the line "It takes a rocking chair to rock, a rubber ball to roll", which had previously been used in 1924 by Ma Rainey in "Jealous Hearted Blues",[8] and which Bill Haley would later incorporate into his 1952 recording, "Sundown Boogie."

Both Robert Nighthawk and Harmonica Frank recorded versions of "Kansas City Blues" in 1951.

[citation needed] Her lyrics included "Goin' to Kansas City to bring Jim Jackson home".