Rag Mop

This 12-bar blues song, written by Tulsa western swing bandleader Johnnie Lee Wills and steel guitarist Deacon Anderson, was published in 1949.

The Wills-Anderson song was adapted from a 1946 release by Henry "Red" Allen, "Get the Mop".

The song was part of a double-sided hit; the flip side was "Sentimental Me".

The 1950 recording is considered an example of proto-rock and roll as it contained elements that would later go into the defining of the genre.

[citation needed] Lou Monte recorded an Italian-flavored version soon after the Ames Brothers' original, and, in 1963, Allan Sherman recorded "Rat Fink".