I Want a Little Girl (song)

"I Want a Little Girl" (recorded by some female singers as the gender-swapped "I Want a Little Boy") is a popular song with music by Murray Mencher and lyrics by Billy Moll, published in 1930.^[1]

The original recording was made by McKinney's Cotton Pickers with vocals by George Thomas on July 30, 1930 for Victor Records,^[1] but the song has been recorded by many other artists since then, including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Buddy Rich, Oscar Peterson, T-Bone Walker, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta Jones, Ben E. King, Eric Clapton and B.B. King.

• 1930 McKinney's Cotton Pickers with vocals by George Thomas, RCA Victor 23000, B-side to "Okay, Baby".
• 1939 Big Joe Turner recorded the song as a single. It appeared on his 1956 album The Boss of the Blues.
• 1948 Louis Armstrong recorded as a single A-side, with "Joseph and His Brudders" on the B-side, RCA Victor 20-2612.
• 1952 Count Basie, on his album Basie Jazz, released in 1954.
• 1952 Count Basie, on his album The Swinging Count!, released in 1956 on the Clef label.^[2][3][4]
• Between 1952 and 1958 Ray Charles, on his album Yes Indeed!, released in 1958.
• 1956 Joe Williams, on his album A Night at Count Basie's.
• 1959 Nat King Cole, on his album Welcome to the Club.
• 1959 Billy Eckstine and the Count Basie Orchestra, on the album Basie/Eckstine Incorporated, released by Roulette Records.
• 1959 Buddy Rich, on his album Richcraft.
• 1959 Buddy Rich, on his album The Voice Is Rich.
• 1960 Billy Eckstine, on his album No Cover, No Minimum.
• 1960 The Four Coins, released as a single (MGM Records K12951, B-side to "Pledging My Love").
• 1960 Stanley Turrentine with The Three Sounds, on their album Blue Hour, released 1961.
• 1961 Jack McDuff, on his album The Honeydripper.
• 1961 Ike Quebec, on his album Heavy Soul released on the Blue Note label.^[5]
• 1962 Count Basie, on his album Count Basie and the Kansas City 7.
• 1964 Junior Mance, on his album That's Where It Is!, released in 1965.
• 1964 Oscar Peterson, featuring Clark Terry, on the album Oscar Peterson Trio + One.^[6]
• 1965 Joe Hinton, released as a single reaching 132 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 34 in the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in the US.
• 1966 Illinois Jacquet, on his album Go Power!.
• 1966 Wynton Kelly, on his album Full View, released on the Milestone label.^[7]
• 1966 Pee Wee Russell and Red Allen, on their album The College Concert released on the Impulse! label.^[8]
• 1967 Lou Donaldson, on his album Alligator Bogaloo.
• 1967 Phil Upchurch, on his album Feeling Blue, released in 1968 on the Milestone label.^[9][10]
• 1968 T-Bone Walker recorded the song and also named the album on which the track occurred album after it. The album was not released until 1973.
• 1975 The Lee Konitz Trio, on their album Oleo.
• 1978 Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, recorded the song and also named the album on which it occurred after it.^[11] It was recorded and released by the Pablo label.^[12][13]
• 1980 Junior Mance, on his album Deep.
• 1983 Count Basie, on his album Mostly Blues...and Some Others.
• 1986 Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass, on their album Easy Living.
• 1990 or 1992 Jay McShann on his album Some Blues, recorded in 1990 and 1992 and released on the Chiaroscuro label in 1993.^[14][15]
• 1991 Joey Baron, on his album Tongue in Groove.
• 1999 Ben E. King, on his album Shades of Blue.
• 2002 Eric Clapton, on his album One More Car, One More Rider.
• 2003 B.B. King, on his album Reflections.

• 1956 Kay Starr, on her album The One, The Only Kay Starr.
• 1956 Sylvia Syms, on her album Sylvia Syms Sings.
• 1962 Ernestine Allen, on her album Let It Roll.
• 1977 Carrie Smith, on her album When You're Down and Out.
• 1986 Etta Jones, on her album Fine and Mellow, released in 1987.
• 1999 Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, on her album Everybody's Talkin' 'bout Miss Thing!, released in 2000.