A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid

"A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid" is a jazz standard song with music by James P. JohnsonJasen, David A., Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, Routledge, New York, 2003, p.224 and lyrics by Andy RazafWaller/Razaf, American Songbook Series, The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, AD 048-21 first published in 1930. It was composed for the musical "The Kitchen Mechanics Revue” “a critique of political economy you can dance to.”{{cite web |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=musicfacpub |title=Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of J. Tim Brymn Materials for a Biography |last=Lefferts |first=Peter M. |date=August 26, 2016 |website=DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln |access-date=October 11, 2022}} a “plotless but tightly themed musical celebrating male and female service workers as Harlem’s fountain of wealth, sanity, pleasure and art,”{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iYrDiD6v5sYC&q=%22%22The+Kitchen+Mechanics+Revue%22+%22&pg=PA53|title = New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars|isbn = 9780231114257|last1 = Maxwell|first1 = William J.|last2 = William Maxwell|first2 = Sir|year = 1999| publisher=Columbia University Press }}

The song has been recorded many times over the years, Roy Milton and His Solid Senders recorded a R&B version in 1947.Milton, Roy, Roy Milton and his Solid Senders, The Legends of Specialty Series, Specialty Records, SPCD 7004 liner notes