"Donna (Ritchie Valens song) ""Donna"" is a song written by Ritchie Valens, featuring the 50s progression. The song was released in 1958 on Del-Fi Records. It was Valens' highest-charting single reaching No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart the following year. (Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price was at number one.) It was written as a tribute to his high school sweetheart Donna Ludwig. The song was recorded on December 16, 1958, at the Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles. Bob Keene is listed as having been the leader of the session, which included Earl Palmer on drums; Buddy Clark"
"and did not record after 1952, he remained a popular entertainer in New Orleans clubs, including a long residency at the Poodle Patio Club. He died of a heart attack in New Orleans in 1973, reportedly after years of alcoholism. Archibald (musician) John Leon Gross (September 14, 1912 or 1916 – January 8, 1973), who performed and recorded as Archibald, was an American rhythm and blues pianist and singer who had a hit in 1950 with ""Stack-A-Lee"", a version of ""Stagger Lee"". Leon Gross was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and learned piano as a child. Influenced in particular by"
"Archibald (musician) John Leon Gross (September 14, 1912 or 1916 – January 8, 1973), who performed and recorded as Archibald, was an American rhythm and blues pianist and singer who had a hit in 1950 with ""Stack-A-Lee"", a version of ""Stagger Lee"". Leon Gross was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and learned piano as a child. Influenced in particular by local piano player Burnell Santiago, he began playing at parties, and later in brothels, and acquired the nickname ""Archie Boy"" which eventually became ""Archibald"". He served in India in the US Army during World War II, before returning to New"
"the Stagger Lee archetype to Sly Stone and his album ""There's a Riot Goin' On"" in his book ""Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music"". From 1982 to 1984, two masked professional wrestlers were billed as Stagger Lee in the Southern US; Sylvester Ritter, better known as Junkyard Dog, played him first in Mid-South Wrestling and James Ware, who became Koko B. Ware, followed suit in the Continental Wrestling Association. Dallas Theater Center in Dallas produced an original musical with an adaptation of the folklore around Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons. The characters explore African American history"
"certain warmth in his voice that attracted a wide variety of listeners, and his ballads led to comparisons with performers such as Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. Lloyd Price, who in 1952 had a number one hit with ""Lawdy Miss Clawdy"" regained predominance with a version of ""Stagger Lee"" at number one and ""Personality"" at number five for in 1959. The white bandleader of the Bill Black Combo, Bill Black, who had helped start Elvis Presley's career and was Elvis's bassist in the 1950s, was popular with black listeners. Ninety percent of his record sales were from"
"tone down its violent content, but it was still the ""violent"" version that was on top of the R&B chart in 1959. ""Stagger Lee"" was Price's version of an old blues standard, recorded many times previously by other artists. Greil Marcus, in a critical analysis of the song's history, wrote that Price's version was an enthusiastic rock rendition, ""all momentum, driven by a wailing sax"". In all of these early recordings by Price (""Personality"", Stagger Lee"", ""I'm Gonna Get Married"", and others) Merritt Mel Dalton was the lead sax player; he was also in the traveling band and appeared on"
"Lee Shelton Lee Shelton (March 16, 1865 – March 11, 1912), popularly known as ""Stagolee"", ""Stagger Lee"", ""Stack-O-Lee"", and other variations, was an American criminal who became a figure of folklore after murdering Billy Lyons on Christmas 1895. The murder, reportedly motivated partially by the theft of Shelton's Stetson hat, made Shelton an icon of toughness and style in the minds of early folk and blues musicians, and inspired the popular folk song ""Stagger Lee"". The story endures in the many versions of the song that have circulated since the late 19th century. The historical Lee Shelton was an African"
"released singles such as ""Big Dave's Special"" / ""One Stop"" and ""The Cat from Coos Bay"" / ""Loosely with Feeling"". In the early 1950s, Cavanaugh became a Director of A & R (Artists and Repertoire) for Capitol Records, where, during a stint that would endure to the end of his career, he signed artists such as Dakota Staton, Donna Hightower, Nancy Wilson, Plas Johnson and Sandler & Young. He became one of the label's main producers, becoming responsible for the output of top artists such as Nat ""King"" Cole, Stan Kenton, Peggy Lee, Kay Starr, Billy May, Sandler and Young"
"Sugar. Sugar's disappearance was soon followed by the appearance of a masked man called Stagger Lee, who looked and wrestled like Sugar. The storyline of Sugar returning under the mask to fight the heels helped make the masked man instantly popular with the crowd. Eaton, along with the rest of Jimmy Hart's stable ""the First Family"", tried in vain to unmask Stagger Lee. Eaton turned face and re-teamed with Sugar, although they maintained the storyline that Eaton's partner was actually ""Stagger Lee"" and not Sugar. The team regained the tag team title before losing it to The Fabulous Ones (Stan"
"Stamper (a), Clyde Bunch (b)] Little Bronze Shoes / Running From The Blues 1950 157 - Tommy Odum - I'm A Handy Man To Have About / She Won't Turn Over For Me - 1951 158 - Jimmy Myers And His Band - Darling How Was I To Know / Money Can't Buy This Heart Of Mine - 1951 159 Freddy Myers and his Trail Riders I Don't Need Your Love Anymore (Woman) / Fire Water Polka 1951 160 Earl & Joyce Songer and the Rocky Road Ramblers Someone To Call My Own / Dissatisfied 1951 161 John Shoupe Mommy,"
"a masked man calling himself Stagger Lee debuted; the fact that he looked and wrestled like a masked version of Sweet Brown Sugar helped make him instantly popular. Bobby Eaton along with the rest of the First Family tried in vain to unmask Stagger Lee but could not manage to do so, winding up frustrated at every turn. Bobby Eaton later turned face, he teamed with ""Stagger Lee"" for a series of matches. During a tag-team tournament in 1983, the masked Stagger Lee teamed up with fellow face Norvell Austin to take on ""Fargo's Fabulous Ones"" (Tommy Rich and ""Hot"
"Holt's ""Stick By Me"". Lee was a pioneer of the United Kingdom reggae market, licensing his productions to the Palmer Brothers (Pama) and Trojan Records in the early 1970s. The mid-1970s saw Lee work with his most successful singer, Johnny Clarke, as well as Owen Gray and Cornell Campbell, and along with Lee ""Scratch"" Perry, he broke the dominance of Coxsone Dodd and Duke Reid. This era also saw the emergence of the ""flying cymbal"" sound on Lee's productions, developed by drummer Carlton 'Santa' Davis, with Lee's session band, The Aggrovators. Lee was instrumental in producing early dub music, working"
"Zoom / Big Feet 1960 5017 Marsha Renay (with The Don Juans?) It's Nice / Our Cha-Lypso Of Love 1960 5018 John Lee Hooker Big Fine Woman / Blues For Christmas 1960 5019 Dave Hamilton and his Peppers Cooter Bug / Donna's Cha-Cha 1961 5020 Tino Cairo Wow Baby Sitter / Love In Portofino 1961 5021 The Creators Wear My Ring / Booga Bear 1961 5022 Karol Jackman Sometimes I Get Lonely / I Wanna Cry 1962 5023 Bobby Allen I Sent You Roses / You're My Love 1962 5024 Dave Kirk Oh, Baby / Those Lonely Blue Nights 1962"
"Cox, Jimmy Blythe, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and Freddy Keppard. He also managed a crew of songwriters, including Tiny Parham. In 1927, he left Paramount and started The Chicago Record Company, releasing jazz, blues and gospel records on the ""Black Patti"" label. One of these releases was The Down Home Boys' ""Original Stack O' Lee Blues"", believed to be the first recorded version of the song better known as ""Stagger Lee"", and of which only one copy is now known to exist. Black Patti soon failed, and Williams moved to Brunswick Records and its subsidiary label Vocalion, where he"
"John Lee Hooker John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Some of his best known songs include ""Boogie Chillen'"" (1948), ""Crawling King Snake"" (1949), ""Dimples"" (1956), ""Boom Boom"" (1962), and ""One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"" (1966). Several of his later albums,"
"KRC Records with Harold Logan and Bill Boskent. Their first single, ""Just Because"", was picked up for distribution by ABC Records. From 1957 to 1959 Price recorded a series of national hits for ABC, which were successful adaptations of the New Orleans sound, including ""Stagger Lee"" (which topped the Pop and R&B charts and sold over a million copies), ""Personality"" (which reached number 2), and ""I'm Gonna Get Married"" (number 3). When Price appeared on the television program ""American Bandstand"" to sing ""Stagger Lee"", the producer and host of the program, Dick Clark, insisted that he alter the lyrics to"
"Lenny Dee Leonard George DeStoppelaire (January 5, 1923 – February 12, 2006), better known as Lenny Dee, was a virtuoso organist who played many styles of music. His record albums were among the most popular of easy listening and space age pop organists of the 1950s through the early 1970s. His signature hit, ""Plantation Boogie"", charted as a Top 20 hit in 1955. He also had a gold record with 1970's ""Spinning Wheel"". Dee played a variety of songs in numerous styles. He played original compositions, popular songs, and novelty tunes, and was a master of improvisation. Although his unique"
"reached number 1 on the R&B charts in 1949. By the late 1950s, the swamp blues genre developed near Baton Rouge, with performers such as Lightnin' Slim, Slim Harpo, Sam Myers and Jerry McCain around the producer J. D. ""Jay"" Miller and the Excello label. Strongly influenced by Jimmy Reed, Swamp blues has a slower pace and a simpler use of the harmonica than the Chicago blues style performers such as Little Walter or Muddy Waters. Songs from this genre include ""Scratch my Back"", ""She's Tough"" and ""I'm a King Bee"". Alan Lomax's recordings of Mississippi Fred McDowell would eventually"
"MCA-3235. — * Note: some songs are covers of Four Young Men (e.g. Crest 1076) The Hollywood Argyles The Hollywood Argyles were an American musical ensemble, assembled for studio recordings by the producer and songwriter Kim Fowley and his friend and fellow musician Gary S. Paxton. They had a US number one hit record, ""Alley Oop"" (Lute Records 5905) in 1960. According to Paxton – who, at the time, was half of Skip & Flip – ""Alley Oop"" was written by Dallas Frazier as a country tune: ""As for the name, Kim Fowley and I were living in a $15-a-week"
"after leaving school, before performing and recording with his backing band, the KJ Quintet, that would become The Joy Boys which included his brothers Kevin and Keith, Joye enjoyed a string of hits on the local and national singles charts of Australia beginning in 1959. Joye's first single, ""Stagger Lee"" was a cover of the Lloyd Price US original. However, his third single ""Bye Bye Baby"" reached No.3 on the Australian Kent Music Report charts in 1959, followed by ""Rockin Rollin Clementine"" also peaking at No.3. His fifth single, ""Oh Yeah Uh Huh"", became his most successful, peaking at No.1."
"album reflect. The song ""Da Butt"" and the actual band which included Gregory Elliott, William House, Ivan Goff, Kent Wood, Valentino Jackson, Edward Henderson, Mike Taylor, Darryl Hayes, and J. Foxx, were featured in Spike Lee's film ""School Daze."""" The song was written by Marcus Miller and performed by E.U. The song reached number one on the Billboard's Hot Black Singles chart[1] for the week of April 23, 1988, and was ranked #61 on VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s. The music video was directed by Spike Lee. E.U. further injected DC go-go into the public consciousness"
"when he had his first national hit -- ""Why Baby Why"" -- would go on to become one of country music's most iconic figures for the next 55-plus years. Although some of his early songs included rockabilly (usually recorded under the pseudonym Thumper Jones), he stayed true to the honky-tonk style for most of his career. In addition to ""Why Baby Why,"" his biggest 1950s hits included ""What Am I Worth"", ""Treasure of Love"", ""Just One More"" and his first No. 1 hit, ""White Lightning"", and by the end of the 1990s, that number would increase to more than 100"
"Mickey Lee Lane Mickey Lee Lane (born Mickey Lee Schreiber; February 2, 1941, Rochester, New York – March 18, 2011) was an American songwriter and arranger. Lane got a job in the Brill Building as a songwriter in the 1950s, working with Neil Sedaka as a touring pianist and Bill Haley as a songwriter. In addition, he released some singles on Brunswick Records and Swan Records in the 1950s and 1960s; one of them, ""Shaggy Dog"", became a hit and peaked at #38 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. His tune ""Hey Sah-Lo-Ney"" was covered by British group The Action and"
"years old, and his first drum kit when he was a teenager. Lee has a younger sister, Athena Lee (née Bass), who was also the drummer in his solo band KrunK and was married to James Kottak, the drummer for the rock band Scorpions. As a teenager, Lee listened to Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Kiss, AC/DC and Sweet. His main drumming influences were John Bonham, Tommy Aldridge, Alex Van Halen and Terry Bozzio. His first successful band ""Suite 19"" played the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles during the late-1970s. Around this time, he met future bandmate, Nikki Sixx."
"written by Leiber and Stoller). In the 1960s, Leiber and Stoller founded and briefly owned Red Bird Records, which issued The Shangri-Las' ""Leader of the Pack"" and The Dixie Cups' ""Chapel of Love"". After selling Red Bird, they continued working as independent producers and songwriters. Their best known song from this period is ""Is That All There Is?"" recorded by Peggy Lee in 1969; it earned her a Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy. Earlier in the decade, they had had a hit with Lee with ""I'm a Woman"" (1962). Their last major hit production was ""Stuck in the Middle"
"No. 1 hit. The follow-up, ""Day Into Night"" was a Top 10 hit the same year. Owen Bradley took over as Wells' producer in the 1960s. While Bradley did produce some of the biggest-selling country crossover singers of the time period, including Patsy Cline, he did have to record some of what Nashville then called ""The Old-Timers,"" or the ""Honky-Tonkers"" from the 1950s, including Webb Pierce, Ernest Tubb, and Wells. With these singers, including Wells, he steered them all into the new contemporary sound without pushing them out of their limits. Wells' sound changed slightly due to Bradley's influence, incorporating"
"questions for ... Kay Starr. ""Goldmine"", 29, 26. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1499165 Kay Starr Katherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became No. 1 hits ""Wheel of Fortune"" in 1951 and ""(The) Rock and Roll Waltz"" in 1955. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried, such as jazz, pop, and country; but her roots were in jazz. Billie Holiday called her ""the only white woman who"
"The Hollywood Argyles The Hollywood Argyles were an American musical ensemble, assembled for studio recordings by the producer and songwriter Kim Fowley and his friend and fellow musician Gary S. Paxton. They had a US number one hit record, ""Alley Oop"" (Lute Records 5905) in 1960. According to Paxton – who, at the time, was half of Skip & Flip – ""Alley Oop"" was written by Dallas Frazier as a country tune: ""As for the name, Kim Fowley and I were living in a $15-a-week room in Hollywood... Since I was still under contract (to Brent Records) as 'Flip,' I"
"50 Number Ones 50 Number Ones is a compilation album, released in 2004, by American country music singer George Strait. It is a compilation of his first 50 Number One country music singles, starting with 1982's ""Fool Hearted Memory"" and presented in chronological order. A new track, ""I Hate Everything"", was also included, and became his 51st overall Number One in 2004. The figure of ""50 Number Ones"" includes not just songs that reached the top of the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Songs charts, but also of those that topped the ""Radio & Records"" and ""Gavin Report"" charts. The album has"
"Kay Starr Katherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became No. 1 hits ""Wheel of Fortune"" in 1951 and ""(The) Rock and Roll Waltz"" in 1955. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried, such as jazz, pop, and country; but her roots were in jazz. Billie Holiday called her ""the only white woman who could sing the blues."" Kay Starr was born Katherine Laverne Starks"
"folk song tradition, known as ""Stagolee"", ""Stagger Lee"" and other variants. The earliest versions were likely field hollers and other work songs performed by African American laborers. The first evidence for it is a reference to ""Stack-a-Lee"" being performed by ""Prof. Charlie Lee, the piano thumper"" in the ""Kansas City Leavenworth Herald"" in 1897. The song was well known in African American communities along the lower Mississippi River by 1910. That year, musicologist John Lomax received a partial transcription of the song, and in 1911 two versions were published in the ""Journal of American Folklore"" by the sociologist and historian"
"the post-World War II era. During his many years with Capitol's division in Hollywood, California, he produced many of the genre's most notable and successful hits, by artists including Merle Travis, Gene Vincent, Ferlin Husky, Jean Shepard, Hank Thompson and the many Number 1 country hits known as the Bakersfield Sound by Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, along with many others. Nelson was primarily involved with country music acts, although he was responsible for signing comedy star Stan Freberg, who was 25 at the time, with Capitol Records. He produced nearly all of Freberg's comedy recordings during the 1950s, one of"
"for ""Stand By Me"" and included in the 1987 film ""The Big Town"". Mr. Lee (song) ""Mr. Lee"" is a 1957 single by The Bobbettes. The song peaked at number one on the CHUM Chart in 1957. ""Mr. Lee"" was written about a teacher that members of the group had in school. Contrary to popular belief, the song was originally written not to ridicule but to describe their former teacher. Upon meeting executives from Atlantic Records, Atlantic had the lyrics of ""Mr. Lee"" changed to create a love song. Atlantic demanded the original lyric ""ugliest teacher"" to be changed to"