1947 Rick Derringer*
1957 Joe Hill Louis+
2001 Al Broussard+
2003 J.W. Warren+
1957 Joe Hill Louis+
2001 Al Broussard+
2003 J.W. Warren+
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Rick Derringer *05.08.1947
Rick Derringer (* 5. August 1947 in Fort Recovery, Ohio), eigentlich Rick Zehringer, ist ein US-amerikanischer Rockmusiker (Gitarre, Gesang), Songschreiber und Produzent.
Mit den McCoys hatte Derringer 1965 den Superhit Hang On Sloopy, der in Amerika Yesterday von den Beatles vom ersten Platz der Charts verdrängte.
1969 ging Derringer als Musiker und Produzent zu Johnny Winter, zusammen mit den anderen McCoys. Sie spielten als dessen Begleitband auf den Alben Johnny Winter And und Johnny Winter And – Live – das And steht für The McCoys. Für Johnny Winter schrieb Derringer den Hit Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo. Mit Johnnys Bruder Edgar nahm er Edgar Winter's White Trash und Roadwork auf.
1973 brachte Derringer das Soloalbum All American Boy heraus. Er war weiterhin als Produzent, Songschreiber und Musiker für die Winter-Brüder tätig, u. a. für die Alben Still Alive and Well und They Only Come Out At Night.
Rick Derringer 1978
1976 gründete Derringer die Derringer Band, mit der er vier Alben produzierte. 1983 nahm er mit Good Dirty Fun erneut ein Soloalbum auf. Daneben spielte Derringer immer wieder mit bekannten Bands und Musikern, etwa Alice Cooper, Richie Havens, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, Cyndi Lauper, Barbra Streisand und Kiss.
Mitte der 1980er Jahre arbeitete Derringer mit Weird Al Yankovic, war aber weiterhin auch für andere tätig. So schrieb und produzierte er z. B. I Am A Real American, den Themensong des Wrestlers Hulk Hogan.
1990 erschien das Album Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer Live in Japan. Ab 1993 nahm Derringer eine Serie von vier Blues-Alben auf: Back To the Blues, Electra Blues, Blues Deluxe und schließlich 2000 Jackhammer Blues. 1999 produzierte er mit Edgar Winter das Album Winter Blues.
1997 brachte Derringer das Album Tend The Fire heraus. 2001 spielte er mit Carmine Appice und Tim Bogert (vormals Vanilla Fudge) DBA – Derringer, Bogert & Appice ein. 2002 machte Derringer mit Free Ride Smooth Jazz einen Ausflug in den Jazz. Die ausgekoppelte Single Hot And Cool war äußerst erfolgreich in den Jazz-Charts.
Mit seiner Frau Brenda und seinen Kindern Lory und Martin nahm Derringer zwei Alben mit christlichen Stücken auf, Aiming 4 Heaven und Still Alive And Well (2004).
Im Zusammenhang mit den Flutkatastrophen in Südostasien und den Hurrikan-Verwüstungen im Süden der USA organisierte der Musiker 2005 das „Musicians for Disaster Relief“, ein Wohltätigkeitskonzert, das unter anderem auch dem amerikanischen Roten Kreuz zugutekam. Bei dem in den Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida stattfindenden Konzert versammelte er die Gruppen Loverboy, Twisted Sister, Mark Farner von Grand Funk Railroad, Dickey Betts von den Allman Brothers, Eddie Money und Michael Bolton. Derringer spielte bei den meisten Acts den Gitarrenpart und trug selbst „Hang on Sloopy“ inklusive der gestrichenen zweiten Zeile und „Rock'n' Roll Hoochie Koo“ vor.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Derringer
Rick Derringer (born Ricky Dean Zehringer; August 5, 1947) is an American guitarist, vocalist, Grammy Award winning producer and entertainer.
Derringer came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of The McCoys, who had a number one hit single with "Hang on Sloopy." Derringer then turned to blues rock, scoring a 1974 hit with "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo". He has also worked extensively with brothers Edgar and Johnny Winter, and with the group Steely Dan.
Life and career
Early life and 1960s
Derringer was born in Fort Recovery, Ohio, the son of Janice Lavine (Thornburg) and John J. Zehringer, a railroad worker.[1] When he was 17, his band The McCoys recorded "Hang on Sloopy" in the summer of 1965, which became the number one song in America before "Yesterday" by The Beatles knocked it out of the top spot. The song was issued by Bang Records. He adopted the Derringer stage name which was inspired by the Bang Records logo which featured a derringer pistol.[2]
After starting The McCoys, he changed the band's name to "The Rick Z Combo", and then "Rick and the Raiders". After recording "Hang on Sloopy", it was decided that the original name was best, and The McCoys were reborn.
One of the first opportunities to see them play live came when they opened for The Rolling Stones on the entire 1966 American tour. Before "Hang on Sloopy", they were seen often at LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park in southwest Ohio at Friday night WSAI (Cincinnati, Ohio) radio-sponsored dances. They were a part of the local summer dance experience along with Ivan and the Sabers on WING (Dayton, Ohio) radio Monday night dances.
1970s
Derringer also recorded and played with a version of Johnny Winter's band called "Johnny Winter And ..." and both Edgar Winter's White Trash and The Edgar Winter Group.
Derringer also had a successful solo career, and his solo version of "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" was a hit single in 1973. The years 2013–2014 mark the 40th anniversary of Derringer's first solo tracks on All American Boy released October 15, 1973. The album's success was rated by its record company, "Blue Sky Records", that stated that every college dorm room in America had one. He also recorded extensively with Steely Dan, playing slide guitar on songs including "Show Biz Kids" and "Chain Lightning".
Derringer appeared on Alice Cooper's Killer album in 1971, playing the solo on "Under My Wheels."
In late 1974, Derringer played guitar on Joe Vitale's debut solo album Roller Coaster Weekend produced by The Albert Brothers (Ron, and Howard). The album featured other famous guitarists Joe Walsh and Phil Keaggy.
Derringer opened for Led Zeppelin in Oakland, California on their last American tour in 1977.[3] Derringer was also a featured guitarist on several Todd Rundgren albums in the 1970s, including Something/Anything? (1972), A Wizard, a True Star (1973), Initiation (1975) and the live album Back to the Bars (1978).
Derringer was also a regular in Andy Warhol's circle and often frequented Warhol's studio, The Factory.[4]
1980s–1990s
Derringer also performed a track for the World Wrestling Federation on The Wrestling Album. "Real American" would later be used as Hulk Hogan's entrance music (and was associated before with the tag team, The U.S. Express).[5] Derringer also performed the entrance theme for WWF Tag Team Demolition on Piledriver:The Wrestling Album 2,[5] as well as a duet version of "Rock 'n Roll Hoochie Koo" with Gene Okerlund.[6]
See also: Music in professional wrestling
In the 1980s, Derringer expanded his producing skills, by producing the first 6 Wierd Al Yankovic albums "Weird Al" Yankovic as well as Mason Ruffner. He also played on the second Silver Condor album on the track "Thank God For Rock and Roll", produced and sung by Joe Cerisano. He has played for "Weird Al" on many of his albums, playing guitar and mandolin; on the track "Eat It", Derringer played the guitar solo, an homage/parody to Eddie Van Halen's solo on the Michael Jackson song "Beat It".
In the summer of 1983, at Right Tracks studio in NYC, Derringer guested on the Kiss album Lick It Up (their first record without make-up and first Platinum seller in four years), playing the solo on the opening track, "Exciter". Derringer was not credited, per Kiss' usual practice of masking guest musicians appearing on their albums over the years. Derringer commented about Kiss' Paul Stanley, "Paul's a much better guitarist than I would have thought."
In 1986, he co-wrote and sang back-up vocals on "Calm Inside The Storm" on Cyndi Lauper's True Colors album. He served as one of her tour musicians from 1986–1992, prompting him to compare Cyndi to Barbra Streisand: "She's better live than Barbra."
Derringer was once again sought after by Edgar Winter and in 1990 performed on the album Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer Live in Japan. In 1999 Derringer and Winter were back together again for their collaboration on his Winter Blues CD.
Derringer also recorded four blues CDs, starting in 1993 with Back to the Blues followed by Electra Blues, Blues Deluxe and his 2000 release Jackhammer Blues.
In 2012 Derringer toured the world with The Ringo Starr All Star Band
2000s
Rick Derringer's Tend The Fire was released in Europe and England (1997), DBA-Derringer, Bogert & Appice (2001).
Free Ride Smooth Jazz (2002) with Rick's wife, singer-songwriter Jenda Derringer Hall, who sang the title song "Free Ride". Jenda also wrote the album's Top Twenty Hit "Hot & Cool", which charted at #16. "Hot & Cool" was written by Jenda in 1998.
"Aiming 4 Heaven" launched Derringer's gospel rock career, with wife Jenda, their eight-year-old son, Marn and nine-year-old daughter, Loving. The Derringers We Live CD was released in fall of 2008.
Derringer guested on the Tom Guerra project Mambo Sons (1999) and Damon Fowler's Riverview Drive (2000). He also appears on the Les Paul album American Made World Played (2005), on the track "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl".
Derringer strongly proclaimed his Christianity during this period. The old lyric of "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" was rewritten into "Read the Word Live It Too" and his new life was breathed into "Still Alive And Well". Both lyrics were written by Rick's co-writer wife, Jenda Derringer.
In 2006, he appeared in a Fidelity Investments television commercial, with Derringer playing "Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo".
In May 2009, he released the album Knighted by the Blues and its single, "Sometimes", that was also written by song writer, Jenda Derringer.
2010s
Rick Derringer toured with Ringo Starr's 11th All-Starr Band in the summer of 2010 and 2011, a band that included long-time friend and musician partner Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, Richard Paige, Gregg Bissonette, Wally Palmer and Ringo Starr. Rick's current trio consists of longtime bassist-vocalist Charlie Torres and drummer-vocalist-global tour manager Kenn Moutenot of song3.com
In other media
"Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" is featured in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused, as well as in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II in 2007. The song was also made available as downloadable content (DLC) for guitar learning software/game Rocksmith 2014 in January 2015.
"Real American" is featured in the original broadcast of the episode "Gumball Special" of Jackass (it has since been replaced by another song for subsequent TV broadcasts and DVD releases). The song is featured in an episode of Eastbound & Down (Chapter 8) as Kenny Powers' entrance song to his return to baseball playing for The Charros (a Mexican baseball team). The song is also featured on Episode 20 of TeamFourStar's Dragonball Z: Abridged as Goku's arrival to Namek music, and was used to comedic effect by President Barack Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.
Rick & Jenda Derringer do The Beatles, released just before Spring, 2014, is their Beatles tribute album, for the Beatles 50th Anniversary. It features their fresh, upbeat tracks of "A Hard Day's Night", "Here Comes the Sun", "Got to Get You into My Life", "The Word", "In My Life", "Eight Days a Week", "Something", "And I Love Her", "Here, There and Everywhere" and "Do You Want To Know A Secret". All ten of these tracks were the first to be both produced and engineered by Rick & Jenda Derringer.
Derringer came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of The McCoys, who had a number one hit single with "Hang on Sloopy." Derringer then turned to blues rock, scoring a 1974 hit with "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo". He has also worked extensively with brothers Edgar and Johnny Winter, and with the group Steely Dan.
Life and career
Early life and 1960s
Derringer was born in Fort Recovery, Ohio, the son of Janice Lavine (Thornburg) and John J. Zehringer, a railroad worker.[1] When he was 17, his band The McCoys recorded "Hang on Sloopy" in the summer of 1965, which became the number one song in America before "Yesterday" by The Beatles knocked it out of the top spot. The song was issued by Bang Records. He adopted the Derringer stage name which was inspired by the Bang Records logo which featured a derringer pistol.[2]
After starting The McCoys, he changed the band's name to "The Rick Z Combo", and then "Rick and the Raiders". After recording "Hang on Sloopy", it was decided that the original name was best, and The McCoys were reborn.
One of the first opportunities to see them play live came when they opened for The Rolling Stones on the entire 1966 American tour. Before "Hang on Sloopy", they were seen often at LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park in southwest Ohio at Friday night WSAI (Cincinnati, Ohio) radio-sponsored dances. They were a part of the local summer dance experience along with Ivan and the Sabers on WING (Dayton, Ohio) radio Monday night dances.
1970s
Derringer also recorded and played with a version of Johnny Winter's band called "Johnny Winter And ..." and both Edgar Winter's White Trash and The Edgar Winter Group.
Derringer also had a successful solo career, and his solo version of "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" was a hit single in 1973. The years 2013–2014 mark the 40th anniversary of Derringer's first solo tracks on All American Boy released October 15, 1973. The album's success was rated by its record company, "Blue Sky Records", that stated that every college dorm room in America had one. He also recorded extensively with Steely Dan, playing slide guitar on songs including "Show Biz Kids" and "Chain Lightning".
Derringer appeared on Alice Cooper's Killer album in 1971, playing the solo on "Under My Wheels."
In late 1974, Derringer played guitar on Joe Vitale's debut solo album Roller Coaster Weekend produced by The Albert Brothers (Ron, and Howard). The album featured other famous guitarists Joe Walsh and Phil Keaggy.
Derringer opened for Led Zeppelin in Oakland, California on their last American tour in 1977.[3] Derringer was also a featured guitarist on several Todd Rundgren albums in the 1970s, including Something/Anything? (1972), A Wizard, a True Star (1973), Initiation (1975) and the live album Back to the Bars (1978).
Derringer was also a regular in Andy Warhol's circle and often frequented Warhol's studio, The Factory.[4]
1980s–1990s
Derringer also performed a track for the World Wrestling Federation on The Wrestling Album. "Real American" would later be used as Hulk Hogan's entrance music (and was associated before with the tag team, The U.S. Express).[5] Derringer also performed the entrance theme for WWF Tag Team Demolition on Piledriver:The Wrestling Album 2,[5] as well as a duet version of "Rock 'n Roll Hoochie Koo" with Gene Okerlund.[6]
See also: Music in professional wrestling
In the 1980s, Derringer expanded his producing skills, by producing the first 6 Wierd Al Yankovic albums "Weird Al" Yankovic as well as Mason Ruffner. He also played on the second Silver Condor album on the track "Thank God For Rock and Roll", produced and sung by Joe Cerisano. He has played for "Weird Al" on many of his albums, playing guitar and mandolin; on the track "Eat It", Derringer played the guitar solo, an homage/parody to Eddie Van Halen's solo on the Michael Jackson song "Beat It".
In the summer of 1983, at Right Tracks studio in NYC, Derringer guested on the Kiss album Lick It Up (their first record without make-up and first Platinum seller in four years), playing the solo on the opening track, "Exciter". Derringer was not credited, per Kiss' usual practice of masking guest musicians appearing on their albums over the years. Derringer commented about Kiss' Paul Stanley, "Paul's a much better guitarist than I would have thought."
In 1986, he co-wrote and sang back-up vocals on "Calm Inside The Storm" on Cyndi Lauper's True Colors album. He served as one of her tour musicians from 1986–1992, prompting him to compare Cyndi to Barbra Streisand: "She's better live than Barbra."
Derringer was once again sought after by Edgar Winter and in 1990 performed on the album Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer Live in Japan. In 1999 Derringer and Winter were back together again for their collaboration on his Winter Blues CD.
Derringer also recorded four blues CDs, starting in 1993 with Back to the Blues followed by Electra Blues, Blues Deluxe and his 2000 release Jackhammer Blues.
In 2012 Derringer toured the world with The Ringo Starr All Star Band
2000s
Rick Derringer's Tend The Fire was released in Europe and England (1997), DBA-Derringer, Bogert & Appice (2001).
Free Ride Smooth Jazz (2002) with Rick's wife, singer-songwriter Jenda Derringer Hall, who sang the title song "Free Ride". Jenda also wrote the album's Top Twenty Hit "Hot & Cool", which charted at #16. "Hot & Cool" was written by Jenda in 1998.
"Aiming 4 Heaven" launched Derringer's gospel rock career, with wife Jenda, their eight-year-old son, Marn and nine-year-old daughter, Loving. The Derringers We Live CD was released in fall of 2008.
Derringer guested on the Tom Guerra project Mambo Sons (1999) and Damon Fowler's Riverview Drive (2000). He also appears on the Les Paul album American Made World Played (2005), on the track "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl".
Derringer strongly proclaimed his Christianity during this period. The old lyric of "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" was rewritten into "Read the Word Live It Too" and his new life was breathed into "Still Alive And Well". Both lyrics were written by Rick's co-writer wife, Jenda Derringer.
In 2006, he appeared in a Fidelity Investments television commercial, with Derringer playing "Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo".
In May 2009, he released the album Knighted by the Blues and its single, "Sometimes", that was also written by song writer, Jenda Derringer.
2010s
Rick Derringer toured with Ringo Starr's 11th All-Starr Band in the summer of 2010 and 2011, a band that included long-time friend and musician partner Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, Richard Paige, Gregg Bissonette, Wally Palmer and Ringo Starr. Rick's current trio consists of longtime bassist-vocalist Charlie Torres and drummer-vocalist-global tour manager Kenn Moutenot of song3.com
In other media
"Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" is featured in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused, as well as in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II in 2007. The song was also made available as downloadable content (DLC) for guitar learning software/game Rocksmith 2014 in January 2015.
"Real American" is featured in the original broadcast of the episode "Gumball Special" of Jackass (it has since been replaced by another song for subsequent TV broadcasts and DVD releases). The song is featured in an episode of Eastbound & Down (Chapter 8) as Kenny Powers' entrance song to his return to baseball playing for The Charros (a Mexican baseball team). The song is also featured on Episode 20 of TeamFourStar's Dragonball Z: Abridged as Goku's arrival to Namek music, and was used to comedic effect by President Barack Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.
Rick & Jenda Derringer do The Beatles, released just before Spring, 2014, is their Beatles tribute album, for the Beatles 50th Anniversary. It features their fresh, upbeat tracks of "A Hard Day's Night", "Here Comes the Sun", "Got to Get You into My Life", "The Word", "In My Life", "Eight Days a Week", "Something", "And I Love Her", "Here, There and Everywhere" and "Do You Want To Know A Secret". All ten of these tracks were the first to be both produced and engineered by Rick & Jenda Derringer.
RICK DERRINGER - LIVE - IN CONCERT - STURGIS NORTH - by Gene Greenwood
R.I.P.
J.W. Warren +05.08.2003
J.W. Warren (the initials didn't stand for anything; his actual name was J.W.) was born on June 22, 1921, in Enterprise, AL, the son of John and Matilda Warren. He spent most of his life in the Ariton, AL region, picking up and learning the guitar when he was around 16 years old, and he was soon playing blues pieces at local juke joints and barbecues. He worked at a sawmill for a time before entering the U.S. military while still a teen, serving for 14 years. After his discharge, he returned to the Ariton area, where he worked as a farmer and resumed playing at the local jukes, often splitting time with Big Mama Thornton, who was also an Ariton resident (Warren has claimed he was the "hound dog" of Thornton's biggest song, "Hound Dog," but the jury is out on that one). Warren cited Blind Boy Fuller as the biggest influence on his playing, but he had his own distinct approach to the traditional blues material he favored. Warren was recorded at his home in Ariton on September 15, 1981, and March 27, 1982, by folklorist George Mitchell, and the recordings have been released by different small labels under different titles over the years, including as Bad Luck Bound on LP from Swingmaster Records and most recently as Life Ain't Worth Livin' on CD from Fat Possum Records. Music Maker Foundation also recorded Warren in 1994 and single tracks from that session have shown up on various anthologies. Warren was always reluctant to leave his hometown, so his appearances at folk clubs and festivals were relatively rare. He died at his home in Ariton on August 5, 2003.
Joe Hill Louis +05.08.1957
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Joe Hill Louis (* 23. September 1921 in Raines, Tennessee, als Lester (bzw. Leslie) Hill; † 5. August 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee) war ein US-amerikanischer Blues-Musiker. Er war auch bekannt als der Be-Bop Boy.
Mit 14 Jahren lief Lester Hill von zu Hause weg. Er lebte bei einer Familie in Memphis. Nach einem gewonnenen Kampf mit einem anderen Jungen bekam er den Spitznamen „Joe Louis“ (nach dem gleichnamigen Boxweltmeister).
Joe Hill Louis lernte mehrere Instrumente zu spielen. Seine Auftritte als Ein-Mann-Band im Handy Park in Memphis waren beim Publikum beliebt. Beim lokalen Radiosender WDIA hatte er eine 15-Minuten-Show namens The Pepticon Boy.
1949 machte Louis erste Aufnahmen, denen etliche weitere folgten. Sein bekanntestes Stück dürfte Hydramatic Woman sein.
Joe Hill Louis starb 1957 im Alter von nur 35 Jahren an den Folgen einer entzündeten Wunde am Finger.
Mit 14 Jahren lief Lester Hill von zu Hause weg. Er lebte bei einer Familie in Memphis. Nach einem gewonnenen Kampf mit einem anderen Jungen bekam er den Spitznamen „Joe Louis“ (nach dem gleichnamigen Boxweltmeister).
Joe Hill Louis lernte mehrere Instrumente zu spielen. Seine Auftritte als Ein-Mann-Band im Handy Park in Memphis waren beim Publikum beliebt. Beim lokalen Radiosender WDIA hatte er eine 15-Minuten-Show namens The Pepticon Boy.
1949 machte Louis erste Aufnahmen, denen etliche weitere folgten. Sein bekanntestes Stück dürfte Hydramatic Woman sein.
Joe Hill Louis starb 1957 im Alter von nur 35 Jahren an den Folgen einer entzündeten Wunde am Finger.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_Louis
Joe Hill Louis (September 23, 1921 – August 5, 1957), born Lester Hill, was an American singer, guitarist, harmonica player and one-man band. He is significant, along with fellow Memphis bluesman Doctor Ross, as one of only a small number of one-man blues bands to have recorded commercially in the 1950s, and as a session musician for Sun Records.
Early life
Louis was born Lester (or possibly Leslie) Hill[3] on September 23, 1921[4] in Raines, Tennessee.[5] His nickname “Joe Louis” arose as a result of a childhood fight with another youth.[3] At the age of 14 he left home to work as a servant for a wealthy Memphis family,[6] and also worked in the Peabody Hotel, Memphis, in the late 1930s. From the early 1940s onwards he worked as a musician and one-man band.[4]
Recording and radio career
Louis’ recording debut was made for Columbia in 1949, and his music was released on a variety of independent labels through the 1950s, most notably recording for Sam Phillips’ Sun Records,[3] for whom he recorded extensively as a backing musician for a wide variety of other singers as well as under his own name.[7]
His most notable electric blues single "Boogie in the Park" (recorded July 1950 and released August 1950) featured Louis performing "one of the loudest, most overdriven, and distorted guitar stomps ever recorded" while playing on a rudimentary drum kit at the same time. It was the only record ever released on Sam Phillips' early Phillips label before founding Sun Records.[1] Louis' electric guitar work is also considered a distant ancestor of heavy metal music.[8]
His most notable recording at Sun Records was probably as guitarist on Rufus Thomas’s “Bear Cat”, recorded as an answer record to Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog”, which reached No. 3 on the R&B chart[9] and resulted in legal action for copyright infringement. He also shared writing credit for the song “Tiger Man”, which has been recorded by Elvis Presley, among others. Around 1950 he took over the Pepticon Boy radio program on WDIA from B. B. King.[10] He was also known as “The Pepticon Boy” and “The Be-Bop Boy”.[3]
Death
Louis died on August 5, 1957 in John Gaston Hospital, Memphis,[11] at the age of 35, from tetanus contracted as a result of an infected cut to his thumb, sustained while working as an odd job man.
Early life
Louis was born Lester (or possibly Leslie) Hill[3] on September 23, 1921[4] in Raines, Tennessee.[5] His nickname “Joe Louis” arose as a result of a childhood fight with another youth.[3] At the age of 14 he left home to work as a servant for a wealthy Memphis family,[6] and also worked in the Peabody Hotel, Memphis, in the late 1930s. From the early 1940s onwards he worked as a musician and one-man band.[4]
Recording and radio career
Louis’ recording debut was made for Columbia in 1949, and his music was released on a variety of independent labels through the 1950s, most notably recording for Sam Phillips’ Sun Records,[3] for whom he recorded extensively as a backing musician for a wide variety of other singers as well as under his own name.[7]
His most notable electric blues single "Boogie in the Park" (recorded July 1950 and released August 1950) featured Louis performing "one of the loudest, most overdriven, and distorted guitar stomps ever recorded" while playing on a rudimentary drum kit at the same time. It was the only record ever released on Sam Phillips' early Phillips label before founding Sun Records.[1] Louis' electric guitar work is also considered a distant ancestor of heavy metal music.[8]
His most notable recording at Sun Records was probably as guitarist on Rufus Thomas’s “Bear Cat”, recorded as an answer record to Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog”, which reached No. 3 on the R&B chart[9] and resulted in legal action for copyright infringement. He also shared writing credit for the song “Tiger Man”, which has been recorded by Elvis Presley, among others. Around 1950 he took over the Pepticon Boy radio program on WDIA from B. B. King.[10] He was also known as “The Pepticon Boy” and “The Be-Bop Boy”.[3]
Death
Louis died on August 5, 1957 in John Gaston Hospital, Memphis,[11] at the age of 35, from tetanus contracted as a result of an infected cut to his thumb, sustained while working as an odd job man.
Joe Hill Louis - Boogie In The Park - It's The Phillips 9002 - 78 rpm spin
Al Broussard +05.08.2001
The lights of Bourbon Street seemed to dim a bit with the passing of one of its most sparkling entertainers. Pianist and vocalist Al Broussard, who first played "the street" in 1925 and spent a quarter-century charming audiences at the Tricou House (previously the 711 Club), died Aug. 5 at the age of 95.
As Broussard liked to say, he was born on Orleans Avenue in New Orleans in Orleans Parish. He began his career as a young boy playing solo piano at house parties, later moving on to perform at Storyville clubs such as the Big 25 and the Two Black Crows. "I could sing before I could play the piano," Broussard said last April, just before his big 95th birthday bash at the Tricou House. "What people don't realize is that we didn't have no radio or television. Somebody had to whistle a song for you or sing it."
Broussard headed his own orchestra in the mid-1920s, but he was best known for reigning from center stage, alone at a piano. Wearing his signature red-orange fedora with matching suspenders, the always-youthful Broussard offered -- as the title of his 1984 Rabadash album says -- The Music of a Lifetime at his regular Bourbon Street gig. Between a blend of ragtime, jazz, blues, stride and boogie-woogie numbers, he told stories, chatted with his admirers, and flirted with the women in the audience.
In the early 1940s, Broussard stepped away from the music business and opened a junkyard, continuing to play a piano that he kept amidst the scrap iron. He once remembered how piano legend Professor Longhair used to visit him there and play the old upright. Broussard returned to music by launching his long-running gig at the 711, now the Tricou House.
Until a car accident several years ago, Broussard would amaze onlookers by arriving at his job at the Tricou House via moped. And it was last month at the Tricou House that Broussard was first struck down. Later that week, he called the club from the hospital. "I had a heart attack after the last note of the last song of the last gig of the weekend," he said. Broussard added that at the time he thought he was simply suffering "indigestion and a little bit of the blues."
Last week, during the Aug. 11 jazz funeral procession in his honor, Broussard paid a last visit to the Tricou House. The horse-drawn hearse pulled to a stop at the club, where owner Fred Hendrix stood on the balcony and told a few wonderful stories about the entertainer. He remembered Broussard telling him that one of his secrets to longevity was to drink only good liquor. With that advice in mind, Hendrix declared he'd take a drink of Johnny Walker Red for himself and one for Al. He raised his glass and chugged down the first shot -- and after refilling it, proceeded to pour the glass' contents down onto the sidewalk below.
Friends and family cheered before they resumed behind the Treme Brass Band, on the procession that would finally take Broussard away from Bourbon Street.
As Broussard liked to say, he was born on Orleans Avenue in New Orleans in Orleans Parish. He began his career as a young boy playing solo piano at house parties, later moving on to perform at Storyville clubs such as the Big 25 and the Two Black Crows. "I could sing before I could play the piano," Broussard said last April, just before his big 95th birthday bash at the Tricou House. "What people don't realize is that we didn't have no radio or television. Somebody had to whistle a song for you or sing it."
Broussard headed his own orchestra in the mid-1920s, but he was best known for reigning from center stage, alone at a piano. Wearing his signature red-orange fedora with matching suspenders, the always-youthful Broussard offered -- as the title of his 1984 Rabadash album says -- The Music of a Lifetime at his regular Bourbon Street gig. Between a blend of ragtime, jazz, blues, stride and boogie-woogie numbers, he told stories, chatted with his admirers, and flirted with the women in the audience.
In the early 1940s, Broussard stepped away from the music business and opened a junkyard, continuing to play a piano that he kept amidst the scrap iron. He once remembered how piano legend Professor Longhair used to visit him there and play the old upright. Broussard returned to music by launching his long-running gig at the 711, now the Tricou House.
Until a car accident several years ago, Broussard would amaze onlookers by arriving at his job at the Tricou House via moped. And it was last month at the Tricou House that Broussard was first struck down. Later that week, he called the club from the hospital. "I had a heart attack after the last note of the last song of the last gig of the weekend," he said. Broussard added that at the time he thought he was simply suffering "indigestion and a little bit of the blues."
Last week, during the Aug. 11 jazz funeral procession in his honor, Broussard paid a last visit to the Tricou House. The horse-drawn hearse pulled to a stop at the club, where owner Fred Hendrix stood on the balcony and told a few wonderful stories about the entertainer. He remembered Broussard telling him that one of his secrets to longevity was to drink only good liquor. With that advice in mind, Hendrix declared he'd take a drink of Johnny Walker Red for himself and one for Al. He raised his glass and chugged down the first shot -- and after refilling it, proceeded to pour the glass' contents down onto the sidewalk below.
Friends and family cheered before they resumed behind the Treme Brass Band, on the procession that would finally take Broussard away from Bourbon Street.
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