Roy Brown Blues Deluxe (CD)

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Roy Brown: Blues Deluxe (CD)

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Interpret: Roy Brown
Album titlle: Blues Deluxe (CD)
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
Label Charly UK
EAN: 0082333138926
weight in Kg 0.1

Brown, Roy - Blues Deluxe (CD) CD 1
01	Cadillac Baby	Roy Brown
02	Hard Luck Blues	Roy Brown
03	New Rebecca	Roy Brown
04	Sweet Peach	Roy Brown
05	Love Don't Love Nobody	Roy Brown
06	Dreaming Blues	Roy Brown
07	Good Man Blues	Roy Brown
08	Too Much Loving Ain't Good	Roy Brown
09	Teenage Jamboree	Roy Brown
10	Train Time Blues	Roy Brown
11	Bar Room Blues	Roy Brown
12	Long About Sundown	Roy Brown
13	Beautician Blues	Roy Brown
14	Drum Boogie	Roy Brown
15	Double Crossin' Woman	Roy Brown
16	Swingin' With Johnny	Roy Brown
17	Wrong Woman Blues	Roy Brown
18	Good Rockin' Man	Roy Brown
19	I've Got The Last Laugh Now	Roy Brown
20	Big Town	Roy Brown
21	Brown Angel	Roy Brown
22	Rock-A-Bye Baby	Roy Brown
23	Lonesome Lover	Roy Brown
24	Answer To Big Town	Roy Brown

Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men With his huge vocal roar and a band that could melt... more

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"Roy Brown"

Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men

With his huge vocal roar and a band that could melt paint off the walls of any juke joint, Roy Brown anticipated the rise of rock and roll. In fact, he spread the news in 1947 with his epochal Good Rocking Tonight, which he wrote and cut in New Orleans for DeLuxe, though Wynonie Harris' cover was the bigger hit.

B.B. King, Bobby Bland, and Jackie Wilson were all deeply influenced vocally by Roy, whose melismatic flights were direct precursors to soul. Odd, then, that Roy's early idol was Bing Crosby! Born September 10, 1925 in New Orleans, Brown was gigging in Galveston when Good Rocking Tonight came to him. He offered it to Harris, who haughtily turned it down. Pianist Cecil Gant was more impressed, contacting Jules Braun of DeLuxe Records in Linden, New Jersey in Brown's behalf. Braun came down to the Crescent City and supervised as Roy laid down his debut classic at Cosimo Matassa's fledgling J&M Studios. But Wynonie changed his mind and covered Good Rocking Tonight, ending up with an R&B chart-topper.

That kicked off an incredible hitmaking streak for Brown on DeLuxe. His 'Long About Midnight topped the R&B charts in late 1948; Boogie At Midnight nearly did the same in '49, and the harrowing Hard Luck Blues was his second number one hit in 1950. Love Don't Love Nobody made it to #2 R&B in late '50; backed by his own Mighty Mighty Men (trumpeter Wilbur Harden, saxists Johnny Fontennette and Leroy 'Batman' Rankin, pianist Edward Santineo, bassist Ike Isaacs, drummer Calvin Shields, and New Orleans guitarist Edgar Blanchard, a very inventive presence), it's a typically exciting tour de force for its writer.

Brown transferred over to King Records in 1952 and the hits mysteriously ceased, despite the singer releasing some of his most thrilling rockers over the next three years. The singer signed with Imperial in '56, trying to cope with the onslaught of the music he'd boldly predicted nearly a decade earlier. Roy enjoyed a 1957 hit with producer Dave Bartholomew's Let The Four Winds Blow, but the handwriting was on the wall. He occasionally recorded throughout the '60s and mounted something of a comeback over the next decade before a heart attack ended this mighty, mighty man's bid on May 25, 1981 in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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