Corrine, Corrina (sometimes spelled Corrina, Corrina) is a 12-bar country blues song. It was first recorded by Bo Carter in 1928.
Early singers to record the song included Blind Lemon Jefferson (1926), Bo Carter (1928), Charlie McCoy (1928), Tampa Red (1929, 1930), James "Boodle It" Wiggins (1929), Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon (1929), Walter Davis (1939), Johnny Temple (1940), and Big Joe Turner (1941), Mississippi John Hurt (1966) and Mance Lipscomb (1968), Wilbur Sweatman, Red Nichols (1930). Cab Calloway (1931), Art Tatum (1941), the Black Sorrows (1985),
Clayton McMichen (1929) and the Cajun musician Leo Soileau (1935).
In 1934, Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies recorded the song under the title "Where Have You Been So Long, Corrinne," as a Western swing dance song. Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers also recorded an early version of the song in 1935. Shortly thereafter, Bob Wills adapted it again as "Corrine, Corrina," also in the Western swing style. Following his recording with the Texas Playboys in 1940, the song entered the standard repertoire of all Western swing bands, influencing the adoption of "Corrine, Corrina" by Cajun bands and later by individual country artists.
The song is important to Western swing's pioneering use of electrically amplified stringed instruments. It was one of the songs recorded during a session in Dallas in1935, by Roy Newman and His Boys Their guitarist, Jim Boyd, played what is the first use of an electrically amplified guitar found on a recording.
Played on a Gibson EH-100 Lap Steel.