Wilbert Harrison

Wilbert Harrison ( born January 6, 1929 in Charlotte, North Carolina, † October 26, 1994 in Spencer, North Carolina ) was an American musician and singer.

Career

His first single was This Woman Of Mine / The Letter ( Rockin '# 526) from 1953, the A-side related the same melody as the music composed by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller title KC Lovin ' from the year 1952. Followed the year after that Nobody Knows My Troubles / Gin And Coconut Milk (Deluxe # 6031 ) before he started from August 20, 1954 when record label Savoy Records. Emerged in this first session Do not Drop It / The Ways Of A Woman ( Savoy # 1138 ), and eight more singles followed in early 1959 by Savoy under producer Fred Mendelsohn. Also the high quality instrumental accompaniment by Mickey Baker and Kenny Burrell (guitar) and Buddy Lucas ( saxophone) did not help to carry Harrison's plates in the charts. He asked in early 1959 the label owner Herman Lubinsky, if he could take Kansas City. This sent him to Bobby Robinson, the owner of the small labels Fury Records.

Million Sellers

Bobby Robinson produced with Harrison arranged in the rockabilly style Kansas City / Listen, My Darling ( Fury # 1023) was added to the New York Bell Sound Studios for only $ 40 studio costs. Kansas City was the cover of 1952 by successful author team of rock & roll, Leiber / Stoller wrote and Little Willie Littlefield interpreted for the first time 12-bar blues.

The recording session with Harrison was held on 25 February 1959, he was accompanied by guitarist " Wild" Jimmy Spruill with a barbed - sharp guitar solo and King Curtis (tenor saxophone), Harrison played piano. In less than half an hour the song towards the end of the recording session was created. Following the publication on 23 March 1959, the title came on 13 April 1959 in the Pophitparade where he from 18 May 1959, two weeks rank one, even seven weeks in the Rhythm & Blues charts, finished. He was able to prevail against four simultaneously published versions of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, a re-release of Littlefield's original, Rocky Olson and Ronald & The Rebels. Until the end of 1959 version were sold over three million copies of Harrison.

After Harrison's version was so successful in marketing, he was sued by Savoy Records on $ 1 million damages for breach of contract because Harrison would still have a valid contract with Savoy Records. The court ruled that Fury Records was allowed to publish any plates by Harrison until resolution of the dispute in 1961. Therefore, there was at Fury Records no real follow-up single, as a substitute offered the small label Glades a single of which, however, was unsuccessful. Lubinsky lost the case, but Harrison had finally lost the connection.

After many record labels he landed in 1969 with Sue Records, where his own composition Let 's Work Together was released in December 1969 and rank 20 of the pop charts reached. It was a remake of the 1962 published by Fury recording Let's Stick Together. However, the big hit was hereby the blues-rock group Canned Heat celebrate, as they penetrated two months later to number two on the British charts. Bryan Ferry transported in June 1976 his version to fourth place in the British charts - again under the original title Let's Stick Together.

Discography (selection, in parentheses recorded date)

  • This Woman of Mine / The Letter ( Rockin '# 526 ), 1953

Savoy Records:

  • Women and Whiskey / Da Dee Da Ya ( Wilbert Harrison & The Roamers ), ( # 1149 ), January 1955
  • Florida Special / Darling, Listen to This Song (# 1164 ) (20 June 1955), 1955
  • Confessin ' My Dream / The Way I Feel ( # 1198 ), (9 July 1956), 1956
  • My Love Is True / I Know My Baby Loves Me (# 1517), (4 June 1957), 1957
  • Baby Do not You Know / My Love for You Lingers On ( # 1531), (4 June 1957), 1958
  • Do not Drop It / Baby Do not You Know (# 1571), (4 June 1957), 1959

Fury Records:

  • Kansas City / Listen, My Darling (# 1023) (23 February 1959), March 1959

Glades Records:

  • Gonna Tell You a Story / Letter Edged in Black ( # 603 ), 1959

Fury Records:

  • Cheating Baby / Do not Wreck My Life (# 1027 ), 1959
  • Goodbye Kansas City / 1960 (# 1028 ), 1960
  • C. C. Rider / Why Did You Leave ( # 1031 ), 1960
  • Since I Fell for You / Little School Girl ( # 1037 ), 1960
  • The Horse / Da -De- Ya- Da ( Anything for You) (# 1041 ), 1961
  • Happy in Love / Calypso Dance ( # 1047 ), 1961
  • Drafted / My Heart Is Yours (# 1055 ), 1961
  • Let's Stick Together / Kansas City Twist ( # 1059 ), 1962
  • Let's Stick Together / My Heart Is Yours (# 1063 ), 1962

Wilbert Harrison and His Kansas City Playboys:

  • Off to School Again / Broke ( Doc # 1001/2 ), 1962

Wilbert Harrison:

  • Near to You / Say It Again ( Sea Horn # 502 ), 1963
  • New York World 's Fair / Mama, Mama, Mama ( Constellation # 122 ), 1964
  • Baby Move On / You're Still My Baby (Port # 3003 ), 1965
  • Do not Take It as Hard / Sugar Lump (Port # 3009 ), 1965
  • Please Forgive Me / Poison Ivy (Vest # 8006 ), 1966
  • Clementine / Sentimental Journey ( Dee- Su # 301 ), 1966
  • No One 's Love but Yours / Mini - Parade ( Roulette # 4752 ), 1967
  • Lawdy Miss Clawdy / The Whatchamacalla ( Roulette # 4782 ), 1967
  • Shoot You Full of Love / Louie, Louie ( Juggernaut # 405 ), 1969
  • Let's Work Together ( Part 1) / Let's Work Together ( Part 2) ( Sue # 11), December 1969
  • CC Rider / Since I Fell for You ( Bell # 869 ), 1970
  • My Heart Is Yours / Pretty Little Woman (Wet Soul # 4 ), 1970
  • Get It While You Can / Amen ( Hot Line # 101 ), 1972
  • Kansas City / Listen My Darling ( Eric # 161 ), 1973

Swell

  • R & B singer
  • American musician
  • Born in 1929
  • Died in 1994
  • Man
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