1953 ROY BROWN R&B 78 EVERYTHING'S ALL RIGHT / LONEOME LOVER US KING 4689 E-
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TWO GREAT SIDES ON THIS R&B 78 FROM ROY BROWN AND HIS MIGHTY MIGHTY MEN ON AN ORIGINAL US KING RELEASE
EVERYTHING'S ALL RIGHT
YOUTUBE watch?v=35TEctHqtCU
b/w LONESOME LOVE
(a more bluesy side)
Born Roy James Brown in New Orleans, Louisiana, Brown started as a gospel singer. His mother was an accomplished singer and organist in church. After a move to Los Angeles, California some time in the 1940s, and a brief period spent as a professional boxer in the welterweight category, he won a singing contest in 1945 at the Million Dollar Theater covering "There's No You" by Bing Crosby. In 1946 Brown moved to Galveston, Texas, where he sang in a club. His numbers included "Good Rocking Tonight". He returned to New Orleans in 1947, where he performed at The Dew Drop Inn.
Brown failed to interest Wynonie Harris in "Good Rocking Tonight", but got an introduction to the president of Deluxe Records, who signed him. The song was released in 1947 and reached #13 on Billboards R&B charts (but was then eclipsed by Harris' cover of it). Brown's version was a jump blues with a swing beat, but Harris's cover version can be considered closer to rock and roll. Elvis Presley also covered the song for Sun Records in 1954; later re-released on RCA Victor when his recording contract was sold to that record label in 1956.
Brown and his band "The Mighty Men" were spectacular performers, with the kind of crowd pleasing stage histrionics for which Little Richard would soon be famous. Unfortunately, tastes changed and Brown could not keep up.
The decline of his fortunes coincided with his successfully winning a lawsuit against King Records for unpaid royalties in 1952, one of the few African American musicians to do so in the 1950s. This has led some, such as author Nick Tosches (in his book Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll, which contains a chapter on Brown) to believe that Brown may have been blacklisted. When his popularity ebbed in the rock and roll era, he tried teen-slanted songs like "School Bell Rock", but had little success and more or less retired.
His popularity was at its lowest at the end of the 1950s, but he sporadically managed to find work through the 1960s. To supplement his income, he worked as an encyclopaedia salesman.
US KING 4689 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
CONDITION E- SOME WEAR BUT PLAYS GREATA CHANCE TO PICK UP THIS GREAT HARD TO FIND R&B 78
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