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R&B Vocal - PIANO RED - Rockin' With Red - HMV 7M 108 - UK 1953 Dancer - She Knows How To Rock
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Upload #899 ~ HQ from UK 45 pictured ~~ Later done by Little Richard as "She Knows How To Rock", this UK 45 seems forgotten now if was always a Rare One & featured in the 1986 Vintage Record Centre book if you never even heard of a copy. the First UK R&B 45 release, beyond the few Export 45s, probably sold to Winifred Atwell buyers on the 1950 HMV 78 unaware of what the lyric is, transpose the 'Rock' for another word sorta thing. USA 1950 issue on the orange vinyl RCA 50-0099 shows how Early this R&B Dancer is. ~~ Piano Red changed his name to "Dr. Feelgood" in the early 1960s & did "Mister Moonlight" in 1962 a song The Beatles later covered. B side here is "Red's Boogie" a Boogie Piano instrumental that nicks the odd riff from the A side but not cool. ### His early 1950s RCA USA 45s are a bit hard going if there are a few good ones... We had the whole set once & it was tough finding the best ones... Baby What's Wrong, Right And Ready, She's Dynamite, Taxi Taxi 6963 & his first version of The Wrong Yoyo the best. The rest were forgettable really.
Willie Lee Perryman, usually known professionally as Piano Red and later in life as Dr. Feelgood, was an American blues musician, the first to hit the pop music charts. He was a self-taught pianist who played in the barrelhouse blues style. His performing and recording careers emerged during the period of transition from completely segregated "race music" to rhythm and blues, which was marketed to both white and black audiences. Some music historians credit Perryman's 1950 recording "Rocking Wit...
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