Saturday, September 17, 2022

Christene

 


 Little Hank
& The Rhythm Kings

Rhythm & Range 45-101
(Nashville, Tennessee - 1956)

Little Hank - Christene 

Little Hank - The House of Pink Lights


This is jazz star Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford's first record which he made for a little-known label in Nashville while studying music at Tennessee State University in the mid-fities. The Memphis-bred saxophonist directed the Tenessessee State Collegians jazz band and fronted his own combo during college. Little Hank & The Rhythm Kings played jumping dance music six nights a week at the Subway Lounge in Nashville's Printers Alley. According to Crawford, "Christene" was written, produced and bankrolled by Roy Hall, the hillbilly boogie pianist who wrote "Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On". Crawford supplies sax and vocal. He left Nashville in early 1958 to join Ray Charles's group, soon becoming Charles's bandleader and eventually signing his own deal with Atlantic Records.

Bio (Wikipedia)

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