Boots Randolph

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Boots Randolph (1997)
Boots Randolph (1997)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Boots Randolph's Yakety Sax
  US 79 08/29/1964 (41 weeks)
Boots Randolphs Plays More Yakety Sax!
  US 118 December 04, 1965 (5 weeks)
Boots with strings
  US 36 05/06/1967 (47 weeks)
Boots Randolph With The Knightsbridge Strings & Voices
  US 189 02/17/1968 (5 weeks)
Sunday Sax
  US 76 04/27/1968 (12 weeks)
The Sound Of Boots
  US 60 11/30/1968 (24 weeks)
... With Love / The Seductive Sax Of Boots Randolph
  US 82 06/21/1969 (17 weeks)
Yakety Revisited
  US 113 07.03.1970 (18 weeks)
Hit Boots 1970
  US 157 October 24, 1970 (9 weeks)
Boots With Brass
  US 168 01/23/1971 (3 weeks)
Homer Louis Randolph, III
  US 141 08/14/1971 (11 weeks)
The World Of Boots Randolph
  US 144 December 4th, 1971 (8 weeks)
Boots Randolphs Plays The Great Hits Of Today
  US 192 December 9, 1972 (3 weeks)
Singles
Yakety Sax
  US 35 04/06/1963 (9 weeks)
Hey Mr. Sax Man
  US 77 05/09/1964 (6 weeks)
The Shadow of Your Smile
  US 93 07/01/1967 (3 weeks)
Temptation
  US 93 07/08/1967 (1 week)

Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (born June 3, 1927 in Paducah , Kentucky , † July 3, 2007 in Nashville , Tennessee ) was an American musician who also appeared at the beginning of his career under the name Randy Randolph . He became known for his saxophone hit Yakety Sax from 1963, which was also used as the title melody for The Benny Hill Show from 1969 .

Live and act

Randolph grew up in Cadiz, Kentucky, and went in Evansville , Indiana , to the high school . He had already learned the saxophone in high school from 1943. On August 22, 1945 he joined the army, where he played in a military band until his release in 1946. After serving in the army, he married Carolyn Dolores "Dee" Baker (born January 1, 1930, † July 8, 2011) in 1947, they had two children. Between 1948 and 1954 he played in Decatur , Illinois , with Dink Welch's Kopy Kats .

When he noticed the duo Homer & Jethro (with Jethro Burns ), Burns recommended the saxophonist Randolph to his brother-in-law Chet Atkins . He, head of the RCA studios in Nashville since 1957, listened to Randolph's demo recording Chicken Reel in 1958 and engaged him as a session musician in the informal Nashville A-Team . Randolph began his career on 29 November 1957 in Nashville as a session musician in a recording session for Brenda Lee and was then permanent member of the Nashville A-Team, which all major country singer in the recording studios of Nashville accompanied. The core of the A-Team, in turn, played modern jazz with Atkins, Floyd Cramer , Bobby Moore , Boots Randolph and Buddy Harman after the sessions at the Carousel Club in Nashville . In the peak phase, Randolph had 250-300 assignments as a session musician per year. The profession of session musician therefore enabled sufficient income, so that he was not dependent on live performances.

He himself stood in front of the microphones for the first time on May 13, 1958; The song Percolator , which he sang and played on the saxophone, emerged from a recording session on September 8, 1958 , which was not in his home country, but in February 1960 in Germany under the title I don't want chocolate, I'd rather a man from Trude Lord became known. On the B-side of Percolator was the instrumental Yakety Sax , composed by himself and guitarist James "Spider" Rich and inspired by the Coasters ' title Yakety Yak , which appeared in a remake (recorded in December 1962) in January 1963 as the A-side and Reached number 35 on the US pop hit parade. With this title, the special saxophone style became known, which is called "chicken-picking" and can probably be best described with this name. He denied the recordings he made under the pseudonym Randy Randolph . From November 19, 1969, Benny Hill used the song as an outro of his Benny Hill Show.

On July 4, 1960, he performed with Atkins, Hank Garland , Floyd Cramer and Buddy Harman at the Newport Jazz Festival , which resulted in the jazz album The Nashville All-Stars - After the Riot at Newport . Randolph has accompanied the majority of the Nashville recording artists. He can be heard on the Elvis Presley album Elvis is Back! (published April 8, 1960); here he plays an impressive saxophone solo with Reconsider Baby . He was the first and only saxophone player who ever accompanied Elvis Presley. Brenda Lee's Let's Jump the Broomstick (recorded October 19, 1958), Sweet Nothin’s (August 13, 1959), I Want to Be Wanted (March 27, 1960), I'm Sorry (March 28, 1960) are just a few of them Title in which he accompanied Lee for 40 sessions through January 31, 1964. Roy Orbison joined Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel) (March 26, 1960), Blue Bayou (June 27, 1961), Mean Woman Blues (April 29, 1963), In Dreams (January 4, 1963) or Oh, Pretty Woman (August 1, 1964) to complete 16 sessions through February 4, 1966. What Randolph himself did not succeed in, trumpeter Al Hirt achieved in December 1963 with the instrumental hit Java - namely to get into the charts himself: Randolph played in the accompanying band during the recording.

In 1961, Randolph moved from RCA to Monument Records , which he promised an improved solo career. The remake of Yakety Sax brought him a middle position in the charts, but not the great lasting success as an independent interpreter. In 1977 he bought the Carousel Club on Nashville's Printer's Alley for $ 100,000 , which he sold again in 1994. During his career he released over 40 LPs. He has appeared in numerous US television series , such as the Jimmy Dean Show (March 5, 1964), Steve Lawrence Show (October 18, 1965), Jackie Gleason Show (March 11, 1967), Toast of the Town ( March 8 , 1965) . February 1970) or Hee Haw Honeys (October 7, 1978).

Randolph died in 2007 at the Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, after a brain hemorrhage at the age of 80 .

literature

  • Walt Trott: Boots Randolph. In: The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Ed .: Paul Kingsbury. Oxford University Press, New York 1998. pp. 428-429: "Randolph played in evansville Blue Bar from 1957 to 1961."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts US
  2. ↑ Associate Press, Sax man Boots Randolph known for hit 'Yakety Sax'
  3. ↑ Washington Post, July 4, 2007, 'Yakety Sax' Boots Randolph 80
  4. ^ Richard Carlin, Country , 2005, p. 147
  5. ^ Richie Unterberger, Music USA: The Rough Guide , 1999, p. 105
  6. ^ Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Country Music , 1998, p. 347
  7. ^ Paul Kingsbury (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Country Music , 1998, p. 429

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personal data
SURNAME Randolph, boots
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Randolph, Homer Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Paducah , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 2007
Place of death Nashville