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Originally released in 1923 on Paramount records.

It felt right to end this collection the way we started it, with an Edna Hicks track that defies common expectations of the music of the 1920s. Mistreatin’ Daddy is another exploration of gender roles and expectations. It helps to establish and reinforce the common image, almost mythological at this point, of The Flapper that 1920s archetype of an independent woman who had completely broken with tradition.

This stanza captured my mind most completely:

“If you see me sittin’ on another daddy’s knee
Don’t you interrupt me 'cause I’m as mean as I can be
I’m like a butcher right down the street
I could chop you all to pieces like you was a piece of meat”

but then the song twists, ending on a surprising little couplet:

“You nearly caused my heart to break
And now I’d soon as see you as a rattlesnake
Mistreatin’ daddy, I’ve got another papa now
And he’s mistreatin’ me too
Daddy, like you used to do”

I’m sure a professor of literature could say a lot about the small ironic turnaround at the end of this song, and it’s place in the traditions of poetry and popular music. That’s not me, though. What I’ll say is that the last two lines pretty thoroughly recast the song, taking it from a celebration of freedom and turning it towards a cyclical pattern of abuse and escape (and, when coupled with the other Edna Hicks track on this album, perhaps retribution?)

At any rate, we start and we end with Edna Hicks, a talented performer who’s life was cut too short.

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