Amos Milburn, a forgotten giant

[PaulHWilliamsEstate]

The Paul Williams band did a great job accompanying Amos Milburn.

[durgafilms]

Milburn was the major influence on Fats Domino.

[SUNNYRHOADES9]

wow Before Fats Domino .

[goodshiite]

This was one of the FIRST early-50s R&B songs I heard as a kid. Got me HOOKED on this old stuff!! 25 years, 6,000 records, and two jukeboxes later, still love it!

Too bad he didn't have Tiny Grimes on guitar with him for this date, that's part of what I like so much about the record, but Amos ROCKS.

Thanks for posting.

[lolas33]

i love this song ;]

[troxyprojy]

Fabulous stuff : an excellent UK pianist Mike Sanchez does great justice to the most excellent Amos Milburn : great to hear from his nephew, with the story about Little Richard being taught left hand boogie. keep rockin'

[madTheDamned]

nice song :)

[BarbButler]

I have to say...this is dedicated to the love of my life...Mr. Floyd Lee Phillips...who is in heaven...playing in the best blues band ever right now!!

[BarbButler]

Thanks for posting...for very loving, sentimental & personal reasons...this means so much!!

[FogCityGuy100]

I heard Amos Milburn's music all the time when I was a child. The radio stations may have eventually stopped playing his music or he may have stopped making hits but people in my parents' generation never forgot him. Never.

I can remember playing some of his recordings at parties that my sisters and I threw for our parents and their friends and then the "old folks" would get up dance then.

[sayheymandymay]

milk and water, now

[57Will]

It's a shame that Amos Milburn's name doesn't come up very often when it comes to rock and roll's founding fathers. Never had seen any kind of footage on him until this one. Thanks for posting!

[brockpetrie]

Amos Milburn is a legend - this man should be a household name.

[smigglebiggle]

I only knew this song by a British band called The Deltas, I really liked the song but this is a different league. This really is pure entertainment. Amos will be one of my favourites from now on!

[56BUICKRiviera]

Flloyd Dixon was great too.

[JosephNScott]

Milburn had 19 R&B Top Ten singles: more than Chuck Berry, more than Little Richard, more than Parliament/Funkadelic and Chic combined.

[milburn110]

Thank you for that info Joseph. I will share this with my family. Amos was my uncle. Did you know that Amos and my father, Robert Milburn taught Little Richard how to play the LEFT hand boogie?

[JosephNScott]

"Did you know that Amos and my father, Robert Milburn taught Little Richard how to play the LEFT hand boogie?" That's interesting. Do you know about when and where that happened? Much like Wynonie Harris, your uncle is really underrated by average (ignorant) music writers in general today, but at the same time he's really well-known and loved by many serious fans of '40s-'50s music. And he was truly a _huge_ influence on musicians around the age of Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Jerry Lee Lewis.

[milburn110]

I'm not real sure of the time. My mother would probably know. However, I recall my father talking about it a many of times. Although my father and Amos played by ear, my grandmother had Amos to take piano lessons so that he could read music. My father always played by ear. My father put out a couple of records too, but they only made it in England, I'm told. I have 52 songs by Amos, including Bewildered, but I have no clue as to how to put them on youtube. Can you direct me with that?

[milburn110]

Little Richard never acknowledged what my father and Amos did for him. Ray Charles did, and Sammy Davis, Jr. gave a benefit concert for Amos before he passed away.

[jpm14308]

I use to run around with C. Jackson. Is he related to you? I have several 78 RPM's of Amos Milburn and the Chicken Shackers. What a musical giant. For those that really know music, they understand his musical contributions.

[milburn110]

I just spoke with my mother and she said the gentle that produced my father's records has all that information. Also, she said feel free to call her and she'll tell you everything you need to know about Amos and my father.

[charles6735]

I guess this is dating me but I remember him and his other hit Let me go home whiskey

[chuckdee121]

Fun Fact: Before Amos called it a day, record-wise, he put out an Lp on Motown which attempted to update his sound. As always, he was brilliant, but the lp sold poorly and now qualifies as a collectors item!

[Cherokee6194159]

This is the root of R&B than on to Rock & roll.

[haleyfan]

That sounds cool but I don't know anything about that, if there's footage of it I'd sure like to see it.

[sbryansf]

I have a friend who knew Amos Milburn. Do you know anything about him playing a club in San Francisco called The Blue Mirror? Thanks

[haleyfan]

Hey, I love it, I own this great footage on DVD. Thanks!

[bluesdfw]

What DVD is this on? I needs to gets me one. :)

[haleyfan]

It's on a DVD entitled "Swing Time: Meade Lux Lewis"

[bluesdfw]

Thanks!!

[Bumblebee38]

Brilliant !

Any more of this Please ?