Eugene Church

Eugene Church ( born January 23, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri, † April 3, 1993 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American R & B singer.

Life

Eugene Church went to Los Angeles at the George Washington Carver High School, where he was taught along with Tony Allen and Arthur Lee Maye. The Clique advanced by Richard Berry, Bobby Freeman, Gaynel Hodge, Jesse Belvin and Marvin Phillips, so that among the young musicians a wide network within the Los Ange reader R & B could develop scene.

Eugene Church first met in 1956 next to Jesse Belvin and Obediah " Young" Jessie as a member of the Cliques by two singles on Modern Records in musical phenomenon. This year the band with The Girl managed to obtain good success in My Dreams. Then Jesse Belvin Church supported time and again in his solo recordings.

A joint project of the band 's friends were the Saxons who brought out in the occupation Church, Belvin, Tommy "Buster " Williams, Gaynel Hodge and the young Johnny Guitar Watson Is It True and rock ' n ' roll show on Contender Records.

Under his own name as " Eugene Church and the Fellows ' he recorded for Class Records 1958 Pretty Girls Everywhere. The Fellows it was well-known support: sang the first tenor Buster Williams, Gaynel Hodge sang tenor, his brother Alex Hodge baritone. Jesse Belvin was the bassist. The idea for the title ( in about: Anywhere beautiful girl) had Church when he drove his roommate Williams on the first hot summer day in 1958 by Los Angeles. Jesse Belvin played a major role in the development of the rhythmic structure of the song. The song evolved in the course of autumn into the new year become a national chart hit, which allowed Church, to go with artists like Jackie Wilson, James Brown, Hank Ballard and Dinah Washington on tour. The fellows supported him in this as often as possible.

The episode title Miami was on Class 254 also a national hit, while the last chart listing of Eugene Church, two more singles folgtem on the small class label of Bobby Day. 1961 Church moved to King Records, where sometimes his name was used for recordings by other musicians: Interview with Steve Propes he remembers that he had accompanied on I'm Yout Taboo Man Bobby Day in the background.

Following the last publication on World Pacific Eugene Church initiated a chain of hairdressers and thereby became wealthy. Eugene Church died in 1993 in Los Angeles from cancer.

Discography

For more recordings with Eugene Church see The Clique and The Saxons.