Al Casey (rock & roll guitarist)

Alvin W. " Al " Casey ( born October 26, 1936 in Long Beach, California, † September 17, 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American guitarist who has been widely used in the 1950s and 1960s as a studio musician.

Life

Casey began his career as a teenager in Phoenix (Arizona ), where he was taken by producer Lee Hazlewood familiar with the country singer Sanford Clark. Casey Clark accompanied with titles such as The Fool and Lonesome For A Letter. After that he worked in Eddie Clearwater backing band with a pianist and wrote some of Clearwater's early hits. In addition, he worked until the mid-1960s as a background musician in Los Angeles and Phoenix, among other again for Sanford Clark.

With his band, the Al Casey Combo, he brought out some instrumental singles, which are a mix of rock, blues and jazz. Most plates he published in the years 1962 and 1963 at the Chicago record label Stacy. There, Casey achieved his greatest successes. In the spring of 1962 he entered the Hot 100 in the U.S. music magazine Billbord with Cookin ' at number 92 in the summer of the same year the title Jivin reached ' Around in the Hot 100 number 71, while in the rhythm-and - blues charts he rank 22 occupied. He recorded with Surfin ' Hootenanny, the 1963 No. 48 ranked in the Hot 100 in July, the biggest hit. To be successful, however, was already stopped because Stacy stopped operating. Casey then took no more disks, but joined a constantly changing group of session musicians, which was known in professional circles Wrecking Crew and contributed the instrumentation to a variety of hits by other artists.

Al Casey died on 17 September 2006 at the age of 70 years in Phoenix. For his services to the rockabilly music as stylistically influential guitarist, he was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

U.S. charts at Billboard

U.S. Discography

Vinlyl singles

LPs

Compact Discs *

* Sold in Germany