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This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #PianoMusic. Here's a great 1954 video of Amos Milburn performing one of his old hits:
Amos Milburn: Down the Road a Piece (live version from 1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0CXbPK0AiE
He is introduced by Willie Bryant, who was a band leader, singer and DJ also known as "the Mayor of Harlem".
#AmosMilburn #boogiewoogie #rhythmandblues #jumpblues #WillieBryant
Ted Tocks Covers
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Originally posted on August 22, 2022
Remembering John Lee Hooker!
“I come home one Friday,
Had to tell the landlady I done lost my job
She said that don't befront me,
Long as I get my money next Friday
Now next Friday come I didn't get the rent,
And out the door I went”
#johnleehooker #amosmilburn #rudytoombs #AlexisKorner #sonnyterry #browniemcghee #georgethorogoodandthedestroyers
This week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #Beverages. I ended up doing a special Amos Milburn edition:
Amos Milburn: Bad, Bad Whiskey (1952; a live performance from 1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCX--0wJQkQ
Amos Milburn: Good, Good Whiskey (1953)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUdoAmRR2qE
Amos Milburn: One Scotch, One Bourbon and One Beer (1953)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZrP18m0lFo
Amos Milburn: Vicious, Vicious Vodka (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ_UUn2xpt8
Amos Milburn: Milk and Water (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q47HsWASOw8
This week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #MusicOfTheMountains. Quite a few songs to choose from, but here's the list I came up with today:
Amos Milburn: Rocky Mountain (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDl5p6FMXhY
Johnnie & Joe: Over the Mountain, Across the Sea (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M69lfJzUiqQ
The Drifters: Suddenly There's A Valley (1958/1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1oSMBhhQ_o
Dick & Dee Dee: The Mountain's High (1961, video clip from 1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtl0V2_aWOk
The Dramatics: Hey You! Get Off My Mountain (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqJ2QobCuT8
#music #amosmilburn #johnnieandjoe #drifters #dickanddeedee #dramatics
This week's #TuneTuesday theme is #NomNomNomNom. I came up with the following list of five recordings - I'm not sure if all of the dishes mentioned would actually qualify as "delicious food":
Wynonie Harris: I Like My Baby's Pudding (1950)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma78qWiEgnk
The Robins: Smokey Joe's Cafe (1955)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuuBen1QZis
Amos Milburn: French Fried Potatoes And Ketchup (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROdAp_ZbKMQ
Norman Fox & the Rob Roys: Pizza Pie (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDw17ql5qmo
Andre Williams (Mr. Rhythm): Pass the Bisquits Please (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaFvhOy4S_I
#music #wynonieharris #robins #amosmilburn #robroys #andrewilliams #rhythmnblues
Amos Milburn was one of the major rhythm & blues stars of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
"Bad, Bad Whiskey" was a #1 R&B hit for Milburn in 1950. Credited to the profilic arranger/producer Maxwell Davis, it was the first in a series of drinking songs recorded by him. Many of these were hits, including "Thinking and Drinking", "Let Me Go Home, Whiskey", "Good Good Whiskey" and the original version of "One Scotch, One Bourbon and One Beer".
There is a wonderful video of Milburn playing the song in 1954, backed by an orchestra led by saxophonist Paul Williams. As you can see in the video, Milburn was an excellent singer and pianist, and obviously a charismatic performer as well:
Amos Milburn: "Bad, Bad Whiskey" (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCX--0wJQkQ
This is only one of several very nice live video performances by Milburn captured around this time.These were apparently filmed by a company called Studio Films in New York (although not at the Apollo Theater as was claimed). Together with other similar three-minute videos, they were shown on TV channels and included in low-budget movies.
There is an extensive review of these videos (with lots of impressive background information) in these two blog posts:
http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-amos-milburn.html
http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-rhythm-blues-review.html
#music #rhythmblues #amosmilburn #soundies #drinkingsongs #piano #1950s #maxwelldavis #aladdinrecords