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. 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. 28, 1957)
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. Feel free to contribute! 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. 2000, Jazz - Released by RevOla on 22 jul. 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. 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.
Decca gave up on Donegan soon after, believing that skiffle was a flash-in-the-pan fad. Donegan mostly listened to swing and vocal acts such as Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, the Ink Spots, and the Andrews Sisters during the early '40s, although he also heard some Indian music on the BBC, and African songs as transliterated for movies. WebMore Than "Pye in the Sky" Review.
. 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. A follow-up album featuring Albert Lee presented Donegan working in a somewhat less familiar country & western vein. Lonnie Donegan MBE (29 April 1931 3 November 2002) was a British "skiffle" musician, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name. By mid-1958, however, skiffle was waning rapidly as a commercial sound, but Donegan continued to appear on the charts right into 1962. It was during these shows, between sets by the full band, that Donegan would come on-stage with two other players and perform his own version of American blues, country, and folk standards, punched up with his own rhythms and accents, on acoustic guitar or banjo, backed by upright bass and drums. Single: "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?" Donegan cut his first album, Showcase, in the summer of 1956, featuring songs by bluesmen Leadbelly and Leroy Carr, not to mention moody traditional blues like "I'm a Ramblin' Man" and A.P. He was successful enough, however, to be brought over to America to appear on the Perry Como Show, followed by an appearance on the Paul Winchell Show. 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. 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. More concert tours followed, along with a move from Florida to Spain. The Sunshine Of His Love. He formed his own group, the Tony Donegan Jazz Band, in 1952. All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By mid-1958, however, skiffle was waning rapidly as a commercial sound, but Donegan continued to appear on the charts right into 1962. Complete discography, ratings, reviews and more. 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." 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. Discography Lonnie Donegan Follow Artist + Scottish-born singer and guitarist Donegan cut his first album, Showcase, in the summer of 1956, featuring songs by bluesmen Leadbelly and Leroy Carr, not to mention moody traditional blues like "I'm a Ramblin' Man" and A.P. Donegan was only paid a few pounds for the recording, and received no royalties. He was an actor and composer, known for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013) 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. Aint No More Cane On The Brazos. Putting On The Style
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. Colyer quit the group early in 1954, and Barber took over the leadership. The family, which moved to East London in 1933, had no desire to see him go into a dead-end profession. / Aunt Rhody, I Wanna Go Home (Wreck of the John B.) Lost John
Putting On The Style. Decca gave up on Donegan soon after, believing that skiffle was a flash-in-the-pan fad. He began playing guitar around London, and going to the small jazz clubs springing up around the city. Among the many tens of thousands of British teens he inspired were members of the Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers, and the Searchers. 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. He'd left the Barber band by then -- though Barber continued to play on his records into the middle of the following year -- enticed into a solo career by offers of huge amounts of money to embark on a solo performing career. Donegan was born as Anthony James Donegan in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of a professional violinist.
A follow-up album featuring Albert Lee presented Donegan working in a somewhat less familiar country & western vein. above March 1958 sessions, Pye Studios, London, Baby Don't You Know That's Love unissued CD3, c.October 1958 poss Pye Studios, London (Les Bennetts, gtr), Lonnie's Skiffle Party - Pt.1 N 15165 CD3, Bewildered ("Relax with Lonnie") NEP 24107 CD3, c.November 1958 Scottish TV Studios, Glasgow, Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour N 15181, P 2042107 CD4, My Only Son Was Killed In Dublin (Dying Rebel) unissued CD4, Battle Of New Orleans ("ruddy British") N 15206 LD2, Battle Of New Orleans ("bloomin' British") N 15206 CD4, c. early September, 1959 Royal Aquarium, Great Yarmouth, September 10/11, 1959 Pye Studios, London (Clyde Valley Stompers), October 22, 1959 Pye Studios, London ("Lonnie Rides Again"), Talking Guitar Blues (British version) N 15237 CD4, c.February 1960 Gaumont Cinema, Doncaster, My Old Man's A Dustman (alt) Polydor 2042 107 LD8, March 5, 1960 New York City ("Yankee Doodle Donegan"), Nobody Understands Me NEP 24127, Atl 2063 CD5, March 10, 1960 New York City (George Barnes, gtr), Sorry, But I'm Gonna Have To Pass NEP 24127, Atl 2123 CD5, Black Cat (Crossed My Path Today) N 15312 CD5, c.August 1961 Winter Gardens Pavilion Theatre, Blackpool, I'll Never Fall In Love Again N 15446 CD6, I'll Never Fall In Love Again (alt) unissued CD6, c.May 1962 Pye Studios, London ("Sing Hallelujah") (Denny Wright, gtr), Good News, Chariot's A'Comin' NPL 18073 CD6, Noah Found Grace In The Eyes Of The Lord " CD6, c.November 1962 poss Brighton, Sussex (w. Max Miller), Cajun Joe (The Bully of the Bayou) (F639) Hick 1345 CD7, Fisherman's Luck (F640) N 15679, Hick 1267 CD7, Louisiana Man (F641) N 15893, Hick 1299 CD7, Interstate Forty (alt) (F642) NPL 18126 CD7, There's A Big Wheel (F644) N 15679, Hick 1267 CD7, Lovey Told Me Goodbye (F647) Hick 1299 CD7, c. early 1965 IBC or Marquee Studios, London ("The Folk Album"), Where In This World Are We Going " , N 15993 CD7, c.June 1965 IBC or Marquee Studios, London, c.October 1966 poss London (Joe Brown, bjo), Who Knows Where The Time Goes " ,F12984 LD1, Come To Australia (Great Uncle Albert Is Dead) Intercord 145001 LP, Jump Down, Turn Around (Pick A Bale of Cotton) Ariola 12604 LD5, 1974 Peer Studios, Hamburg, Germany ("Lonnie Donegan Meets Leinemann"), Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour " LP, 1975 Peer Southern Studio ("Lonnie Donegan Meets Leinemann - Country Roads"), 1975 Bonn, Germany (Chris Barber Great Reunion Concert), June 5, 1975 Fairford Hall, Croydon ("The Great Reunion Album"), Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour Intercord 145 001 LP, Hit Me Across The Head With A Spoon Mama " LP, March 2, 1977 Air Recording Studios, Oxford St., London (Wrigley's Jingles), 1981 ("The Shakin' Pyramids & Lonnie Donegan" EP), June 5, 1981 ("Lonnie Donegan Jubilee Concert"), 1984 ("Hooked On Number Ones - 100 Non-stop Hits"), 1987 (Monty Sunshine - "Mama Don't Allow"), Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me Pinorrekk HB-P-7012, Issued 1998 ("Muleskinner Blues") (with Van Morrison *), This album was originally called Rock Island Line Rolls On. Nick Nicholls - Drums 1956
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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. 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. A follow-up album featuring Albert Lee presented Donegan working in a somewhat less familiar country & western vein. Wright, a jazz player devoted to Django Reinhardt, proved to be one of the best blues axemen in England at the time, while Ashman and Nichols made up an exceptionally tight rhythm section. The Grand Coulee Dam
Light From The Lighthouse. Dont You Rock Me Daddy - o. The family, which moved to East London in 1933, had no desire to see him go into a dead-end profession. 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. Aint You Glad Youve Got Religion. His bluff didn't work but the mix of personalities did, and he was in Barber's first band. In 1976, however, after another series of shows and recordings in Germany, Donegan suffered a heart attack that left him sidelined, and he moved to California to recuperate. Long Summer Day. In 1983 Donegan toured England with Billy Joe Spears, and in 1984, he made his theatrical debut in a revival of the 1920 musical Mr. Cinders. Donegan cut his first album, Showcase, in the summer of 1956, featuring songs by bluesmen Leadbelly and Leroy Carr, not to mention moody traditional blues like "I'm a Ramblin' Man" and A.P. Donegan heard it all, even -- by his own admission -- stole a couple, and absorbed every note. His next single for Decca, "Diggin' My Potatoes", was recorded at a concert at the Royal Festival Hall on 30 October 1954. 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." 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. This is a preliminary attempt at a chronological discography. Is Elvis Presley now irrelevant as an influence. 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 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. I'm Alabamy Bound
But Wright's best single moment comes in his fiery but all too brief electric guitar solo during "Cumberland Gap." 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. 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. WebIt was over half a century ago in 1958, as Lonnie Donegan was ruling the charts with Rock Island Line, that Joe joined his first band, the Spacemen Skiffle Group, at the age of 17. By 1980, he was making regular concert appearances again, and a new album with Barber followed.
Lonnie Donegan Hit Parade -- Vol. WebLonnie Donegan Showcase More images Tracklist Wabash Cannonball How Long, How Long Blues Nobody's Child I Shall Not Be Moved I'm Alabammy Bound I'm A Ramblin' Man He got something more valuable from it than money, however, for "Rock Island Line" was credited to "The Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group." Only when the next wave of young rockers came along, who, like Donegan, had their own ideas about music and what they wanted to do with it, did he finally fade from the charts.
He began playing guitar around London, and going to the small jazz clubs springing up around the city. The only way Donegan had of mastering his instrument was by listening to old records and painstakingly working out the music and a technique,
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Times Are Getting Hard Boys. 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 the spring of 1955, he was signed to Pye Records, and his single, "Lost John," hit number two in England, although it never hit in America. 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. In 1952, he formed his first own group, the Tony Donegan Jazzband, which found some work around London. 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. He began playing guitar around London, and going to the small jazz clubs springing up around the city. 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.
Lonnie Donegan Meets Leinemann - Country Roads (LP, Album) Monty Sunshine's Jazzband* Feat. Lonnie Donegan Monty Sunshine's Jazzband* Feat. Lonnie Donegan - Mama Don't Allow (LP) I'm A Ramblin' Man
This proved so popular that in July 1954 he recorded a fast-tempoed version of Leadbelly's "Rock Island Line", featuring a washboard but not a tea-chest bass, with "John Henry" on the B-side. WebListen to Lonnie Donegan in unlimited on Qobuz and buy the albums in Hi-Res 24-Bit for an unequalled sound quality. 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.
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WebLonnie Donegan Pop - Released by Castle Communications on 1/01/1985 16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo Starting at $117.99 My Old Man's A Dustman - The Singles As & Bs 1954 - 1961 Lonnie Donegan Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Jasmine Records on 10/12/2012 16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo Starting at $18.99 They were successful enough that the National Jazz Federation asked the band to play a show at Festival Hall with American ragtime pianist Ralph Sutton and blues/jazz legend Lonnie Johnson. On one occasion they opened for the blues musician Lonnie Johnson at the Royal Festival Hall. In 1983 Donegan toured England with Billy Joe Spears, and in 1984, he made his theatrical debut in a revival of the 1920 musical Mr. Cinders. Gamblin Man. In 1952, he formed the Tony Donegan Jazzband, which played around London. On 28 June 1952 at the Royal Festival Hall they opened for the blues musician Lonnie Johnson. Donegan adopted his first name as a tribute. He used the name at a concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 2 June 1952. Qobuz is also the leader in worldwide download in Hi-Res 24-Bit. He moved with his mother to London at an early age, after his parents divorced. 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. 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." 2, Shes Got A Sugar Lip (mistake on LP - should be Sals) My Dixie DarlingHam N EggsLivelyStewballFort Worth JailDead Or AliveSally Dont You GrieveChesapeakeBayIt Takes A Worried ManLost JohnIm Just A Rolling StoneAunt RhodyRock O My SoulThe Golden VanityCorrina CorrinaSeven Golden DaffodilsLumberedA Very Good Year, Come To Australia (Great Uncle Alberts Dead), LPS FEATURING LONNIE - Lonnie tracks only, Traditional Jazz At The Royal Festival Hall, Have Tartan Will Travel (Clyde Valley Stompers), On both of these tracks Lonnie Duets with singer Fiona, Barber, Bilk & Bechet With Lonnie Donegan, This is such a great album all tracks listed, Dont You Rock Me Daddy-O (spelt on cover Daddio), http://lonniedonegan.webs.com/eptracklistings.htm, LP TRACK LISTING FOR EP's GO TO BOTTOM OF PAGE. & Aug. 2, 1956)
He was successful enough, however, to be brought over to America to appear on the Perry Como Show, followed by an appearance on the Paul Winchell Show. Press control & F buttons together, put in song title or part of, then find. BINGO! 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. 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. A
(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. (Nevertheless, Donegan received considerable music publishing royalties from "Rock Island" simply by claiming the British copyright on an unregistered song which was considered to be in the Public Domain. The record was a hit, racking up sales in the hundreds of thousands. Among those he worked with during this period was future Moody Blues guitarist-singer Justin Hayward. Another compelling glimpse of the group can be found in the British jukebox movie The Six-Five Special (1957), based on the popular television series of the period, in which Donegan rips through a killer live rendition of "Jack 'O Diamonds," as well as a fine cover of Woody Guthrie's "The Grand Coulee Dam." The Ken Colyer Jazzmen, as they were called, specialized in Dixieland jazz, and built a formidable reputation, their shows popular in every club they played. http://www.p.griggsy.btinternet.co.uk/Untitled/Lonnie.html, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. I Shall Not be Moved
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