![]() 8546: Boogie Woogie's Ma-in-Law // (I'd Be) Ever So Grateful (1941).8518: You Won't Let Me Go // Southern Echoes (1940).8507: Please, Mister Johnson // Swing Along with Me (1940).7700: When You're Out with Me // Reese's Idea (1939).7684: Stop Pretending (So Hip You See) // Jammin' in Georgia (1939).Rock 'n' Roll Stage Show (Wing) reissue of Rock and Roll with Buddy Johnson.Go Ahead & Rock Rock Rock ( Roulette, 1959 Collectables, 1991).Buddy Johnson Wails (Mercury, 1958 Wing, 1963).Rock and Roll with Buddy Johnson ( Wing, 1956 Mercury, 1957).( November 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Induction, South Carolina Music Hall of Fame, 2001.In 1977, Johnson died at the age of 62 from a brain tumor and sickle cell anemia in New York. The music I play has a southern tinge to it. "Personally, I like classics," Buddy Johnson told Down Beat, "but our bread and butter is in the south. His song "Bring It Home to Me" appears on the 1996 Rocket Sixty-Nine release Jump Shot. His orchestra remained a major touring attraction through the late 1940s and early 1950s, and continued to record in the jump blues style with some success on record on the Mercury label like "Hittin' on Me" and " I'm Just Your Fool". In 1946, Johnson composed a Blues Concerto, which he performed at Carnegie Hall in 1948. Ella Johnson recorded her version of "Since I Fell for You" in 1945, but it did not become a major hit until recorded by Lenny Welch in the early 1960s. 5 R&B, 1946, with Arthur Prysock on vocals). 18 pop, 1944, with Ella Johnson on vocals), and "They All Say I'm The Biggest Fool" (No. 3 R&B, 1943, with Warren Evans on vocals), his biggest hit "When My Man Comes Home" (No. ![]() ![]() 2 R&B, 1943, with Johnson on vocals), "Baby Don't You Cry" (No. These included "Let's Beat Out Some Love" (No. Later in 1939, he first recorded for Decca Records with his band, soon afterwards being joined by his sister Ella as vocalist.īy 1941, he had assembled a nine-piece orchestra, and soon began a series of R&B and pop chart hits. In 1938, he moved to New York City, and the following year toured Europe with the Cotton Club Revue, being expelled from Nazi Germany. Life and career īorn in Darlington, South Carolina, United States, Johnson took piano lessons as a child, and classical music remained one of his passions. His songs were often performed by his sister Ella Johnson, most notably " Since I Fell for You", which became a jazz standard. Woodrow Wilson " Buddy" Johnson (Janu– February 9, 1977) was an American jump blues pianist and bandleader active from the 1930s through the 1960s. ![]()
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