Arthur Big Boy Crudup I DON'T KNOW IT Early ELVIS That's all right RCA 20-2387
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Arthur Big Boy Crudup (A) I DON'T KNOW IT (Early ELVIS That's alright) / (B)THAT'S YOUR RED WAGON on RCA 20-2387A
An AMAZING PIECE OF Mississippi BLUES ROCK HISTORY
A. Side "I DON'T KNOW IT", Plays VG+ loud & clear no skips, pops or ticks B. Side "THAT'S YOUR RED WAGON", Plays VG- loud & clear but background hiss from many surface marks, BUT no skips, pops or ticks
*Arthur Crudup, A DELTA BLUES SINGER /SONGWRITER & GUITARIST, was born poor, lived poor & unfairly died poor, He was in legal disputes for most of his adult life over ROYALTIES he NEVER received, from songs HE WROTE and recorded that were later covered by ELVIS PRESLEY (like THIS song "I don't know it" which Crudup later re-worked the lyrics to "That's Alright", A BIG hit for Elvis).
*Crudup stopped recording in the 1950s, because of disputes over royalties.[4] He said, "I realised I was making everybody rich, and here I was poor".[5] His last Chicago session was in 1951. His 1952–54 recording sessions for Victor were held at radio station WGST, in Atlanta, Georgia.[3] He returned to recording, for Fire Records and Delmark Records, and touring in 1965. Sometimes labeled "The Father of Rock and Roll", he accepted this title with some bemusement.[4] During this time Crudup worked as a laborer to augment the low wages he received as a singer (he was not receiving royalties). After a dispute with Melrose over royalties, he returned to Mississippi and took up bootlegging. He later moved to Virginia, where he lived with his family, including three sons and several of his siblings, and worked as a field laborer. He occasionally sang in and supplied moonshine to drinking establishments, including one called the Dew-Drop Inn, in Northampton County.
n 1968, the blues promoter Dick Waterman began fighting for Crudup's royalties and reached an agreement in which Crudup would be paid $60,000. However, Hill and Range Songs, from which he was supposed to get the royalties, refused to sign the legal papers at the last minute, because the company thought it could not lose more money in legal action.[5] In the early 1970s, two Virginia activists, Celia Santiago and Margaret Carter, assisted him in an attempt to gain royalties he felt he was due, with little success.
Crudup died in 1974, four years after the failed royalty settlement.[5] He died of complications of heart disease and diabetes in the Nassawadox hospital in Northampton County, Virginia, in March 1974.[6][7]
Crudup has been honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail, placed at Forest.[8] Elvis Presley acknowledged Crudup's importance to rock and roll when he said, "If I had any ambition, it was to be as good as Arthur Crudup".[5]
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