78 RPM - Bull Moose Jackson And His Buffalo Bearcats - Honey Dripper / Hold Him Joe - Queen - USA

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Artist:	Bull Moose Jackson And His Buffalo Bearcats
Label:	Queen
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	4100
Date:	Sep 1945
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bull Moose Jackson And His Buffalo Bearcats	Honey Dripper	Joe Liggins	Rate
B	Bull Moose Jackson And His Buffalo Bearcats	Hold Him Joe	Luckie Millinder, Bernie Peacock, David Francis	Rate

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Recorded c. Aug 1945, E. T. Herzog Recording Studio, 811 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH.

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BigBadBluesMan 7th Apr 2016



fixbutte 17th Dec 2015		Here's the "Honey Dripper" on YouTube: As the producer of the session, Henry Glover, said, "Joe Liggins had a song out by the name of 'The Honeydripper', and we tried to duplicate it as close as possible." Henry Glover, former trumpeter and arranger for Lucky Millinder, who had introduced Millinder and Jackson to King's Syd Nathan, would become the A&R director for King, "perhaps the second black man to ever have an executive position with an independent record company in the United States" (after Decca's J. Mayo Williams) as Glover recalled in a 1972 interview, when he was vice president of Starday-King Records.



fixbutte 17th Dec 2015		What we have here is the artist of the second R&B (then "Race") million seller doing a cover of the first R&B million seller, "Honey Dripper", which would top the R&B charts (then Most Played Juke Box Race Records) for 18 weeks from Sep 1945 to Jan 1946 in the original version by its composer, Joe Liggins (on Exclusive 207). This was also the first "Race" record released by the founder and owner of King Record Co., Syd Nathan, who obviously felt that the time had come to expand his catalog. Apparently neither the start of the Queen label nor this record here were mentioned in the Billboard magazine, which is no surprise considering the number of close "Honey Dripper" covers. Anyway, Benjamin Clarence "Bull Moose" Jackson, who was also saxophonist and occasional singer in Lucky Millinder's orchestra, came up with his own million seller in 1947, when Queen was already merged in the parent label, "I Love You Yes I Do" (King 4181). His backing band on that record and this one here, the Buffalo Bearcats, was actually a pared-down version of Millinder's band. ____________________ I can't say that for certain - 1945 Billboard issues are only incomplete on Google Books.

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