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Each of those was a success, and eventually "Rock Island Line" came up as a 45 rpm release. 2021. WebLonnie Donegan was born on 29 April 1931 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. The man extending the invitation was Chris Barber, himself an aspiring young jazzman. Cake Walkin Babies (instrum.) Decca gave up on Donegan soon after, believing that skiffle was a flash-in-the-pan fad. He might've continued touring the United States but for the fact he got lonely (his wife and newborn child were brought over), and that "Lost John" had reached number two in England. The LP was a hit, securing sales in the hundreds of thousands. The next month he was at Abbey Road Studios in London cutting a song for EMI's Columbia label. Tom Dooley (Nov - 1958)
It was catchy, earthy, even bluesy (after a fashion) American music played in a way that the British kids could master without an enormous amount of trouble -- a guitar or two, and maybe a banjo, an upright bass (or even one made from a washtub or tea chest, a broom handle, and a piece of rope), and a washboard-and-thimble for percussion. Jack O' Diamonds, Lonnie Donegan Hit Parade -- Vol 5
It seemed to fit, and it caught on; the Ken Colyer Jazzmen became almost as popular for Donegan's between-set skiffle songs as they were for their Dixieland music. Nobody Loves Like An Irishman
Having replaced Bishop in 1956, Wright is playing most of the lead guitar on those tracks, on the accompanying single sides, and on a pair of previously unissued tracks: the Pye re-recording of "Rock Island Line" and the slow blues "I've Got Rocks in My Bed," where he gets to play some Scrapper Blackwell-style licks.
NME Rock 'n' Roll Years. London: Reed International Books. p. 27. CN 5585. ^ a b Lewis, Randy (5 November 2002). "Lonnie Donegan, 71; His Music Influenced 1960s Rock Bands". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 October 2021. ^ "Lonnie Donegan was born 90 years ago today". Frank Beacham's Journal. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2021. The name "skiffle" was hung on this music as a way of referring to it on the group's posters. Times Are Getting Hard Boys. His next single for Decca, "Diggin' My Potatoes," cut at an October 30, 1954 concert at London's Royal Festival Hall, was banned by the BBC for its suggestive lyrics -- this hurt sales but also gave Donegan a slight veneer of daring and rebelliousness that didn't hurt his credibility with the kids. WebLonnie Donegan Meets Leinemann (2-CD) Released in 1999 $11.19 Super Savings List Price: $24.99 Add to Cart Tracks of Disc 1 1.
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Donegan proved to be a popular performer in America, playing on bills with Chuck Berry, among others. The name stuck. He continued to appear regularly in the UK charts until 1962, before succumbing to the arrival of The Beatles and beat music. The only way Donegan had of mastering his instrument was by listening to old records and painstakingly working out the music and a technique,
He was an actor and composer, known for. Golden Hour [UK] GH 514 Lonnie Donegan's' Golden Hour Of Golden Hits: Rock Island Line; Jack ODiamonds; Tom Dooley; Puttin On The Style; Im Alabammy Bound; WebListen to Lonnie Donegan in unlimited on Qobuz and buy the albums in Hi-Res 24-Bit for an unequalled sound quality. (number three and number five in the U.S.) all in less than three years -- thousands of skiffle groups were springing up all over England. Donegan's attempt at a recording comeback late in the '60s was unsuccessful, but in 1974, a new boomlet for skiffle music in Germany brought him on tour and into the studio anew, and the following year he and Chris Barber toured together and recorded a new long-player, The Great Re-Union Album. As "Rock Island Line" took the country by storm, Decca suddenly had one of the bigger -- and most wholly unexpected -- hits in its history up to that time.
Lazy John. Pete Korrison - Mandolin 1955
The only way Donegan had of mastering his instrument was by listening to old records and painstakingly working out the music and a technique,
); Chris Barber (bass); Beryl Bryden (washboard). He is referred to as the "King of Skiffle" and is often cited as a large influence on the generation of British musicians who became famous in the 1960s. He formed his own group, the Tony Donegan Jazz Band, in 1952. BINGO! His bluff didn't work but the mix of personalities did, and he was in Barber's first band. Among the many tens of thousands of British teens he inspired were members of the Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers, and the Searchers. Yes Suh Smith&Co SSCD1123 LD9. He continued to record sporadically during the '60s, including some sessions at Hickory Records in Nashville with Charlie McCoy, Floyd Cramer, and the Jordanaires, but after 1964, he was primarily occupied as a producer for most of the decade at Pye Records. 2016, Folk - Released by Bridge Pa Digital on 28 mei 2019, Pop - Released by Sanctuary Records on 12 dec. 2000, Pop - Released by Castle Communications on 1 jan. 1957, Pop - Released by Retro Music Box on 25 jun. For the next six years, Lonnie spent 335 weeks on the Official Singles chart. He was the first British male singer with two US top 10 hits.
The album, New Orleans Joy, featured songs representative of the group's live set, including a selection from Donegan's skiffle repertory -- the skiffle group, consisting of Donegan, Barber on bass, and their friend Beryl Bryden playing rhythm on washboard, recorded its vocal numbers only after arguing vociferously with the Decca producer, who wanted an instrumental number. Donegan was a pivotal figure in the British Invasion due to his influence in the US in the late 1950s. Please enable
He first became interested in the guitar at age nine, but it was to be another five years before he took matters into his own hands and bought his first guitar for 12.50 (about $70 American in those days). www.hillmanweb.com
Aint You Glad Youve Got Religion. The record was a hit, racking up sales in the hundreds of thousands. In six months, "Rock Island Line" sold three million copies, 50 times the initial sales of the album it came from, an extraordinary figure in anyone's accounting. The UK King of Skiffle, Lonnie Donegan was born Anthony James Donegan MBE (April 29 1931 November 3 2002) in Bridgeton, Glasgow, before joing Chris Barbers Big Jazz Band. With three Number 1s (Cumberland Gap, Gamblin Man/ Putting On The Style, My Old Mans A Dustman) as well as having hits that peaked at every position in the Top 10. http://www.p.griggsy.btinternet.co.uk/Untitled/Lonnie.html (Memories of Lonnie Donegan by Paul Griggs). By mid-1958, however, skiffle was waning rapidly as a commercial sound, but Donegan continued to appear on the charts right into 1962. Unlike a lot of American rock & roll of the mid-'50s, and even more British attempts at the music from the same period and after, Donegan's music remains eminently enjoyable and enlivening. His next single for Decca, "Diggin' My Potatoes", was recorded at a concert at the Royal Festival Hall on 30 October 1954. Mickey Ashman - Bass 1956
[1][2][3] Born in Scotland and brought up in England, Donegan began his career in the British trad jazz revival but transitioned to skiffle in the mid-1950s, rising to prominence with a hit recording of the American folk song "Rock Island Line" which helped spur the broader UK skiffle movement. Colyer quit the group early in 1954, and Barber took over the leadership. Wreck of the Old "97"
), BBC Radio, London, April 18, 1955 "Jazz Club", BBC Radio, London, May 9, 1955 "Jazz Club", BBC Radio, London, (In The Evening) When The Sun Goes Down CD8, May 19, 1955 IBC Studios, London ("Backstairs Session"), Harmonica Blues (CB hca) Polygon unissued CD1, January 9, 1956 "Jazz Club", BBC Radio, London, January 11, 1956 IBC Studios, London ("Skiffle Session"), The Ballad Of Jesse James (DB vcl) Nixa NJE1017 CD1, ?? (Strangely enough, a live film clip of Donegan and Wright doing that song exists, in the movie The Six-Five Special). Boll Weevil Blues unissued LD9 April 12, 1953 Hotel Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark (Donegan & Barber) Hard Time Blues (KC 9) Storyville Rock Island Line John Henry The word, according to Donegan, was suggested by Ken Colyer's brother Bill, who remembered an outfit called the Dan Burley Skiffle Group, based in Chicago in the '40s.
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Still later, Jimmy Currie, a veteran of Tony Crombie's Rockets (the first home-grown rock & roll band in England, patterned loosely after Bill Haley's Comets) became Donegan's lead guitarist in what is regarded as his strongest band. The next month he was at Abbey Road Studios in London cutting a song for EMI's Columbia label. WebLonnie Donegan Discography 1954 - 1961 Adapted from 'The Skiffle Craze' by Mike Dewe ~ Planet Books www.hillmanweb.com/rock/donegan/02.html New Orleans Joys - 1954 Decca (with The Chris Barber Jazz Band) July 13, 1954: London Lonnie Donegan (gtr, voc.
But in 1954, before anyone (especially anybody in England) knew what rock & roll was, Donegan was cool, and his music was hot. Walton-on-Thames Film Studios, Surrey (J.Currie, gtr), August 28, 1957 British Legion Hall, Plymouth, Devon. Donegan heard it all, even -- by his own admission -- stole a couple, and absorbed every note. Encouraged by the initial sales of New Orleans Joy, the company decided to push its luck by lifting individual songs off the album as singles. Lonnie Donegan | Discography | Discogs The first band he ever played in was the trad jazz band led by Chris Barber, who approached him on a train asking him if he wanted to audition for his group. Currie was not only more folk oriented than Wright, but also wrote songs, although Wright would turn up on Donegan sessions as late as 1965. Artist descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone. Returning to the UK, Donegan recorded his debut album, Lonnie Donegan Showcase, in the summer of 1956, which featured songs by Lead Belly and Leroy Carr, plus "I'm a Ramblin' Man" and "Wabash Cannonball". Complete discography, ratings, reviews and more. The record was a hit, racking up sales in the hundreds of thousands. The Grand Coulee Dam
The Chris Barber Jazz Band had not played before 60,000 people in their whole history, and a phenomenon was obviously afoot. By 1980, he was making regular concert appearances again, and a new album with Barber followed. and
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I Want To Go Home (1) (Feb 1960)
They delve into blues, letting Barber have a Dixieland trombone solo on "Frankie and Johnny," invite Dr. John to play some New Orleans on "Goin' Home" and "Good Morning Blues," haul out Jimmie Rodgers ' "Muleskinner Blues" and Leadbelly 's "Goodnight Irene," paying tribute to both country and folk. Darling Corey, Tops With Lonnie ~ 1959
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They found the record's rhythm to be infectious and its sound alluring in a way that no record by anyone from England ever had before. But in 1954, before anyone (especially anybody in England) knew what rock & roll was, Donegan was cool, and his music was hot. Tops at Loving You 6. He was coaxed into his first band one night when someone approached him on the train, saying that they'd heard he was a good banjo player, and invited him to audition for a new group. Donegan had never even held a banjo before but agreed to come to the audition, then bought a banjo and tried to fake his way through the try-out. The man extending the invitation was Chris Barber, himself an aspiring young jazzman. Ace In The Hole unissued LD9. WebLonnie made his chart debut in January 1956 with Rock Island Line. And he did it in 1954, before Elvis was known anywhere outside of Memphis and before Bill Haley was perceived as anything but a Western swing novelty act. Summarize this article for a 10 years old. Colyer quit the group early in 1954, and Barber took over the leadership. Carter's "Wabash Cannonball." [1][2][3] Born in Scotland and brought up in England, Donegan began his career in the British trad jazz revival but transitioned to skiffle in the mid-1950s, rising Encouraged by the initial sales of New Orleans Joy, the company decided to push its luck by lifting individual songs off the album as singles. In six months, "Rock Island Line" sold three million copies, 50 times the initial sales of the album it came from, an extraordinary figure in anyone's accounting. Love Is Strange, Lonnie Donegan Hit Parade -- Vol. The story goes that the host at the concert got the musicians' names confused, calling them "Tony Johnson" and "Lonnie Donegan", and Donegan was happy to keep the name. The single had a 22-week run on the English charts, peaking at number eight. Dont You Rock Me Daddy - o.
He got something more valuable from it than money, however, for "Rock Island Line" was credited to "The Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group." After his release from the army in 1951, he found a new source of blues and folk music in London, in the library at the American Embassy, which allowed visitors to listen to any recordings that were on hand. It was exceptionally popular among England's teenagers, who accounted for most of its sales. Before long, he was working backwards from Josh White to Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, and Leadbelly, among others, and by the end of the '40s, Donegan was as literate in American blues as anyone born in England. 28, 1957)
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By mid-1958, however, skiffle was waning rapidly as a commercial sound, but Donegan continued to appear on the charts right into 1962. In 1949, he was drafted into the British Army. This interrupted his stay in Barber's band but proved a godsend when he was stationed in Vienna for a year, which put him in direct contact with American troops and, even more important, the American Forces Radio Network, which broadcast lots of American music. Among those he worked with during this period was future Moody Blues guitarist-singer Justin Hayward. Add 1: In the early fifties after Donegan was demobbed from National Service he joined Chris Barber and Ken Colyer and others called Ken Colyer's Jazzmen which consisted of Ken Colyer (trumpet), Chris Barber (trombone), Monty Sunshine (clarinet), Lonnie Donegan (banjo), Jim Bray (bass) Dickie Bishop (Guitar) and Ron Bowden (drums). LONNIE DONEGAN DISCOGRAPHY compiled by Dave Moore, Cake Walkin Babies (instrum.) WebListen to Lonnie Donegan in unlimited on Qobuz and buy the albums in Hi-Res 24-Bit for an unequalled sound quality. Frankie and Johnny 5. The album sold 60,000 copies in its first month of release, a huge number in England at that time for a debut album by a homegrown jazz group. function utmx_section(){}function utmx(){} This group recorded two excellent blues numbers with Lonnie Donegan as vocal called "In the evening when de sun go down" and "The Midnight Special" After a year, Ken colyer stormed out of the group and Chris Barber took over. The master of ceremonies at the show made a mistake in his announcement, introducing the American guitarist as "Tony Johnson" and the British banjo man as "Lonnie Donegan." Sorted by Bestseller, Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus) - Released by Jasmine Records on 10 dec. 2012, Folk - Released by M. i. G. - music on 30 sep. 2016, Pop - Released by Castle Communications on 1 jan. 1985, Pop - Released by Sanctuary Records on 11 apr. The family, which moved to East London in 1933, had no desire to see him go into a dead-end profession. Sequel Records has decided to honor Lonnie Donegan with its Lonnie 2000 series, reissuing all of his classic Pye/Nixa sides from 1955 through 1962, and ShowcasePlus is the place to begin. Donegan passed away November 3, 2002, following heart problems. He was an actor and composer, known for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013) Lonnie Donegan remains a beloved pioneer of English rock & roll, and the king of skiffle. Cet lment a bien t
ajout / retir de vos favoris. Decca dropped Donegan thereafter, but within a month he was at the Abbey Road Studios in London recording for EMI's Columbia label. The Federation had brought the two over to England in defiance of a Musicians' Union ban on all foreign performers and needed a non-union band like Donegan's to play support for the two guests. Sequel Records has decided to honor Lonnie Donegan with its Lonnie 2000 series, reissuing all of his classic Pye/Nixa sides from 1955 through 1962, and ShowcasePlus is the place to begin. 2023 XANDRIE SA - 45 rue de Delizy, 93692 Pantin CEDEX, France.
Donegan was suddenly a star, with a public that wanted more music from him. In 1978, however, he was back in the studio, recording the album that was his first chart entry in 15 years, Putting on the Style, an all-star skiffle-style album that teamed Donegan with Ringo Starr, Elton John, Brian May, Peter Banks, and other stars and superstars of rock who owed their entry into music to "Rock Island Line." / Jimmy Brown The Newsboy, My Old Man's a Dustman / The Golden Vanity, I'll Never Fall in Love Again / Keep on the Sunny Side, Pick a Bale of Cotton / Steal Away [with The Kestrels], 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records of All-Time. www.hillmanweb.com/book/gigs, Rock Island Line b/w John Henry (with The Chris Barber Jazz Band), Midnight Special b/w New Burying Ground (with The Chris Barber Jazz Band), Diggin' My Potatoes b/w I Don't Care Where They Bury My Body, Bring A Little Water, Sylvie b/w Dead Or Alive, Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O b/w I'm Alabammy Bound, On A Christmas Day b/w Take My Hand Precious Lord, My Dixie Darling b/w I'm Just A Rolling Stone, The Grand Coolie Dam b/w Nobody Loves Like An Irishman, Sally Don't You Grieve b/w Betty Betty Betty, Lonesome Traveller b/w Times Are Getting Hard Boys, Lonnie's Skiffle Pt. Ive Got Rocks In My Bed. To look at Lonnie Donegan today, in pictures taken 40 years ago when he was topping the British charts and hitting the Top Ten in America, dressed in a suit, his hair cut short and strumming an acoustic guitar, he looks like a musical non-entity. WebLonnie Lonesome Traveller. Donegan passed away November 3, 2002, following heart problems. by Bruce Eder. Long Summer Day. In concert, the group's sound was fuller still, with Donegan and Wright sharing guitar chores with bearded, bespectacled Dick Bishop, who had played on Donegan's earliest records. By 1980, he was making regular concert appearances again, and a new album with Barber followed. The name stuck. He formed his own group, the Tony Donegan Jazz Band, in 1952. 1 b/w Lonnie's Skiffle Pt. © Bruce Eder /TiVo, 227 album(s) He began playing guitar around London, and going to the small jazz clubs springing up around the city. He moved with his mother to London at an early age, after his parents divorced. Barber had heard that Donegan was a good banjo player; in fact, Donegan had never played the banjo at this point, but he bought one and managed to bluff his way through the audition. The Chris Barber Jazz Band had not played before 60,000 people in their whole history, and a phenomenon was obviously afoot. It was country & western and blues records, especially those by Frank Crumit and Josh White, that really attracted Donegan's interests. He's relatively little remembered outside of England, but Donegan shares an important professional attribute with Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Sex Pistols -- he invented a style of music, skiffle, that completely altered the pop culture landscape and the youth around him, and for a time, completely ruled popular music through that new form. It was through BBC broadcasts around 1946 that Donegan first started learning to play songs like "Frankie and Johnny," "Putting on the Style," and "House of the Rising Sun." He might've continued touring the United States but for the fact he got lonely (his wife and newborn child were brought over), and that "Lost John" had reached number two in England. Donegan's attempt at a recording comeback late in the '60s was unsuccessful, but in 1974, a new boomlet for skiffle music in Germany brought him on tour and into the studio anew, and the following year he and Chris Barber toured together and recorded a new long-player, The Great Re-Union Album.
Lonnie Donegans Golden Hour Of Golden Hits, Lonnie Donegans Golden Hour Of Golden Hits Vol. Unlike a lot of American rock & roll of the mid-'50s, and even more British attempts at the music from the same period and after, Donegan's music remains eminently enjoyable and enlivening. He returned to the chart 38 years after his last appearance, guesting with Van Morrison on his I Wanna Go Home single in 2000. It seemed to fit, and it caught on; the Ken Colyer Jazzmen became almost as popular for Donegan's between-set skiffle songs as they were for their Dixieland music.
2000, Jazz - Released by RevOla on 22 jul. With a washboard, a tea-chest bass and a cheap Spanish guitar, Donegan entertained audiences with folk and blues songs by artists such as Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. Lost John
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Nov 20/21, 1998 Whitla Hall, Belfast (The Skiffle Sessions with Van Morrison, Chris Barber, et al), I Know Where I'm Going unissued LD9 C C Rider (Going Down The Road) " LD9, She Was Big, She Was Blonde, She Was Beautiful " LD9. New artists, most notably Tommy Steele and, later, Cliff Richard, started out playing skiffle music and put their own stamp on the material before moving on to other sounds. Before the smoke cleared, "Rock Island Line" also managed to reach the Top 20 in America, a major feat for a British artist at that time. He also gained access to more American records than ever before, courtesy of the U.S. soldiers serving in the city. Donegan was only paid a few pounds for the recording, and received no royalties. Rock Island Line / John Henry (1955) UK #8 . Anthony James Donegan was born in Glasgow, Scotland on April 29, 1931, the son of a classical violinist who had played with the Scottish National Orchestra. 2020, Rock - Released by Castle Communications on 1 sep. 2016, Folk - Released by Before 1962 Recordings on 17 sep. 2020, Rock - Released by Vantage Music on 4 okt. Lumbered
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