Mostrando mensaje 267     < Anterior | Siguiente > Responder a este mensaje Asunto: [50s] Born To Be With You : Ernie Freeman Fecha: Viernes, 16 de Agosto, 2002  10:25:00 (+0200) Autor: El Toro Records <eltororecords @.......es> From: "Dik de Heer" <dik.de.heer@hetnet.nl> > ERNIE FREEMAN > > Born Ernest A. Freeman, 16 August 1922, Cleveland, Ohio > Died 16 May 1981, Hollywood, California > > Pianist / arranger / producer / bandleader. > One of many interesting behind-the-scenes figures of early rock & roll, > pianist Ernie Freeman played on numerous early rock and R&B sessions > in the '50s. He worked on dates for the L.A. indies Specialty, Modern, > and Aladdin, as well as with white artists such as Johnny Burnette, > the Crickets, Bobby Vee, and Buddy Knox. His most memorable session > appearance was probably on the Platters' "The Great Pretender," to which > he contributed the cling-cling-cling piano riffs, effectively satirized by Stan > Freberg. > Freeman also put out many instrumental records of his own, mostly for > Imperial, and usually in a generic rocked-up jump R&B sort of style. > Members of the Ernie Freeman Combo included Plas Johnson on sax, > Earl Palmer on drums and Irving Ashby on guitar. "Jivin' Around" (on the > Cash label) and "Lost Dreams" were R&B hits for him in 1956, but he > got his sole crossover pop smash with a cover of Bill Justis' "Raunchy" in > 1957, which made # 4. It was a strange situation: Justis' original hit # 2, > and a pop-oriented cover by Billy Vaughn also made #10, leading to an > incredible happenstance in December 1957 whereby three versions of > "Raunchy" were in the Top Ten at the same time. Freeman was unable > to make the Top 40 again, although he had minor hits with "Indian Love > Call," "Theme from 'The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" and a cover of > Chubby Checker's "The Twist". He also recorded in the easy-listening > style under the pseudonym Sir Chauncey, sneaking into the bottom of the > Top 100 with "Beautiful Obsession" in 1960. Far more rocking were his > contributions to the early singles of B. Bumble and the Stingers (Bumble > Boogie, Boogie Woogie, Near You) and the Ernie Fields Orchestra. Early > in 1965 he cut "Raunchy '65" for the Ava label. By then he had become > musical director at Reprise Records, working with Frank Sinatra, Dean > Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. As late as 1970 he was doing some string > arrangements on Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water album. > > CD: Ernie Freeman and his Combo, Raunchy (Ace 659). 25 Imperial tracks. _______________________________________________________________________ Visita nuestro patrocinador: ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ ~~ OPORTUNIDAD UNICA Y LIMITADA ~~ eresMas+OfertaPC Liquidación de agendas Palm - Desde solo 133 euros!! Impresora Lexmark por solo 29 euros Portátil Toshiba 4010 CDS - 478 euros Monitor Nokia 446 XT 19" - 199 euros Haz clic aquí -> http://elistas.net/ml/85/ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~