Sugar Bee - LeRoi Brothers

LeRoi Brothers doing an excellent cover of Sugar Bee. Steve Doerr's vocals are instantly recognizable, like Dylan or Springsteen. Just another overlooked and underappreciate American Musical Icon.
Enough editorializing, about the video: I overlooked obvious cues when recording and missed some of Eve's guitar runs but it sounds pretty good overall.
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Now for some obscure history about the song: Cleveland Crochet was the fiddle player and bandleader of The Hillbilly Ramblers, a Cajun band whose 1961 song, "Sugar Bee," became the first Cajun song to reach the "Billboard Hot 100", Cleveland Crochet has never been financially compensated for the tune. "I didn't get anything out of it," Crochet said by telephone from his home in Iowa, Louisiana. "Eddie Schuler (owner of the Gold Band record label) stole the copyright." The son of a Cajun musician, Crochet built his first fiddle out of a cigar box at the age of twelve. Although he continued to earn his living as an iron worker, until his retirement in 1970, Crochet became a regular at Cajun dances throughout eastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana. Together with the Hillbilly Ramblers, which he formed in the 1950s, Crochet played every Saturday night at the Shamrock and Moulin Rouge dance clubs in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Since his retirement, Crochet has limited his playing to informal jam sessions. ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide

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• Sugar
• Bee
• Cleveland
• Crochet
• LeRoi
• Brothers
• Cajun
• Swamp
• Rock
• Eve
• Monsees
• Pat
• Collins
• Bass
• Austin
• Texas

[surferdan34]

@jlm12b hell yeah



[jlm12b]

Hot as hell!

[jt123egypte]

We only miss...Ray Campi on Bass!

[Metal1412]

Nice! Very good Billy! Leroi Bros has always been a favorite.

[reidagei]

Why is 5 stars maximum? Great stuff! Greatings from Balestrand in Norway

[crowley67]

Awesome!!!This is a sweet song and a great version!

[SkopTeocratico]

Oh yeah, great performace, excellent sound of guitar!

[mommawhite1]

hey like what you did to my uncle song,sounds great,i will be puting up some live footage of him and my dad playing.we just celebrated hi 89th birthday.take care....Rene' White

[williamp303]

Thanks Man!