I Rule My House-Chuck Willis

[real3g]

if you have facebook type THE GREAT CHUCK WILLIS

[geofbrit59]

1000 views 9/28/2009

[Silam81]

Added to my playlist. Chuck Willis is great. Thank you.

[geofbrit59]

I gotta' post some more Mr. Willis ! Thanks for commenting & don't forget to rate!

[ensconse]

@geofbrit59

Talk about an "unsung hero"! A genius thru & thru!!

[bellgardens53]

Must say that he sound or the music style here sound VERY different vs. the Chuck Willis records I have. Guess this is some kind of jump blues and that have never really attracted me. Like much more his: "My Life", "Ease the Pain", "Thunder and Lightning", "Keep A Drivin'" etc...but everyone have his/her own taste.

[geofbrit59]

Yes, I know what you mean. This is closer to the jump blues that by the early 50's was going out of style. I have some of his later Atlantic discs and they really are R&B.

[bellgardens53]

I had a look at my LP (Charly R&B) and liner notes by Cliff White says: Willis was one of the youngest and last of the urban blues/jump blues singers that came to prominence in late '40s-early '50s, and on the other, one of the oldest and first of the next wave, the urbane stand up singers whose cross over in 2nd half of the '50s rode the bridge to the Soul revolution in the '60s. So this LP, w/16 songs that span the years 1956-58 sound, in my ears pretty different from your post.

[bellgardens53]

Cont...but unlike the majority of older R&B stars, he succesefully traversed the mid '50s watershed to find a youyngish integrated audience. Was one of the first blacl artists to appear nationally-networked, pop oriented, teen 'n' twenty TV show, American Bandstand. I'm not trying to hold a lecture here, lol, but it was very interesting to read this by White - long ago since I read it, seems like I never read it - and hear his ealier style on this record. Thank you very much geofbrit59.

[geofbrit59]

I'm glad to hear the information. I've learned a lot about popular music since joining YouTube. This is one of his earlier Okeh discs, the flip-side is 'I Tried' a love ballad not a jump blues at all. I wish someone would post a video of him singing on American Bandstand, that would be something to see!

Thanks for your comments.

[bellgardens53]

I say, OMG if someone posted him on American Bandstand. But tapes might gathering dust in Dick Clark's vaults. I just can't understand this Clark. He's gonna be 80 in Nov this year and I heard that Eddie Cochran - if you have visited my channel here & gangerollo you know I'm a huge fan of Ed - did several more filmed apperances on Clark's show than the 3 ones you can find on YT. But they can't be found, they are still in Clark's vaults. Why? I could kill, watching Ed do "Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie"

[loitalove2009]

LOVE CHUCK WILLIS

[geofbrit59]

You've got good taste!