BUDDY LUCAS & His Orchestra - Greedy Pig - WLPRO RCA 45rpm - PREVUE 1953 - rare
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Description
This item is one original pressing 45 rpm vinyl record:
LABEL: RCA Victor
ARTIST: Buddy Lucas and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Buddy Lucas
ISSUE No: 47-5396
SIDE A: Greedy Pig (Can't Get Enough) - [Buddy Lucas]
SIDE B: It Rains - [Buddy Lucas]
MATRIX No: E3-VW-1605 / 1608
YEAR: 1953
NOTES: White label, RECORD PREVUE coming attractions,
CONDITION: Good or better, Side A label has light circular red pen marks.
CONDITION NOTES: This record, and the similar ones currently listed, unfortunately spent much of its life without a paper sleeve. It has been cleaned in an ordinary manner, and a placed into a new white paper sleeve. There are light scratch marks overall, and may affect the musical sound when played.
GRADING: Visual only, with a bright light.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Gone All Stars were the studio band fronted by tenor sax player Buddy Lucas which gradually replaced Jimmy Wright as the backing musicians on many recording sessions for the George Goldner group of labels, including sides by artists such as The Dubs, The Imperials and The Chantels. Buddy Lucas recorded a series of singles for Jubilee around 1951, as well as acting as studio bandleader, before moving to RCA Victor for a year where he had releases on both RCA and its subsidiary Groove. In 1955 Buddy moved to Savoy where he provided studio backing for big name artists like Larry Darnell, Big Maybelle, Annie Laurie and Hal Singer.
" GREEDY PIG (Can't Get Enough) "
RECORDING ARTIST- BUDDY LUCAS AND HIS ORCHESTRA
RECORD LABEL- RCA VICTOR 47-5396
TITLE OF RECORD- OTHER SIDE IS " IT RAINS "
CONDITION OF RECORD- VG++ (very close to NEAR MINT!!)
CONDITION OF LABEL- VERY SLIGHT AGE WEAR
COMMENTS- CLASSIC R & B FROM 1953~A REAL FIND IN THIS CONDITION~STAMP IN DEAD WAX
Born Alonzo W. Lucas, 16 August 1914, Pritchard, Alabama
Died 18 March 1983, Stamford, Connecticut
Tenor saxophonist / vocalist / harmonica player.
>From the late 1940s onwards, Buddy Lucas was a much-in-demand session saxophonist on the East Coast, who also recorded quite a few vocal sides. Like Big Al Sears, Warren Luckey, Willis Jackson and various other New York saxophonists, he played his part in the growth of rhythm and blues, without garnering much acclaim. Born in Alabama, Buddy moved to Stamford, Connecticut, at the age of three. When he was around eleven years, a neighbour noticed his interest in music and gave him a clarinet. At 19 he bought a saxophone and began playing in the Stamford night clubs and taverns. In the late 1940s he went to New York City, where he met drummer Herman Bradley, who helped him get his gigs and record dates. A booking agent, Jimmy Evans, got Buddy to form a band, and this, tied in with a 15 minute radio show hosted by Alan Freed on which he was a regular, helped to spread the word.
Lucas made his first (vocal) recordings in 1951, for Jerry Blaine's Jubilee label, where he also became leader of the house band. After the first release, "Soppin' Molasses"/"Whoppin' Blues" (Jubilee 5058), Buddy renamed the combo "The Band Of Tomorrow". His second disc, a revival of the 1927 standard "Diane", went to # 2 on the R&B charts in April 1952, but the flip, an instrumental version of "Undecided", was much more interesting. Dave Penny has called it "a marvellously anarchic slab of proto rock n roll". This set the pattern for most of his following Jubilee singles : a lush ballad on the A-side and an R&B sax led instrumental on the flip. "Laura"/ "Organ Grinder's Swing" even had a UK release on London L 1181 in June 1953. Apart from "Diane", Lucas had one other hit on Jubilee, "Heavenly Father", sung by Edna McGriff, "with Buddy Lucas & His Band of Tomorrow", as the label credit read (# 4 R&B in 1952).
In 1953 Buddy moved to RCA, where he had two singles released on the parent label and three on its subsidiary Groove. He was also a songwriter, his most successful composition being "Steamboat", which the Drifters recorded in Hollywood in September 1955, produced by Nesuhi Ertegun (Atlantic 1078). It went to # 5 on the R&B charts, while the other side, "Adorable", did even better and topped the R&B lists for one week.
~~~from the internet
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