Browley Guy

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Browley Guy Jr. (* around 1920; † unknown) was an American rhythm and blues musician ( vocals ) and songwriter .

Live and act

Guy attended Wendell Phillips High School in Chicago (graduated in 1936). He recorded in 1947 for the Miracle Records label ; he also worked in the 1940s a. a. as a vocalist with Sonny Thompson and his Sharps and Flats, with Eddie Chamblee and 1947–1949 with Leon Abbey (“ Out of Nowhere ”). In 1952, he played under his own name with the Guy Brothers Orchestra (actually the Red Saunders band ) and with a Paul Bascomb studio band such as "Blues Train" and "You Ain't Gonna Worry Me" in the following years his band Browley Guy & The Skyscrapers a . a. the songs "You Look Good to Me", " Watermelon Man " (Checker, 1953) and "Do Somethin 'Baby" ( Vee Jay Records ). He wrote u. a. the songs "Dad Gum Your Hide Boy", "I'll Follow You", "I'm Crossing Over" and "Just Another Reason".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Billboard Nov. 22, 1947, p. 22, cf. also Billboard, Volume 60, Billboard Publications, 1948
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 12, 2018)
  3. ^ The Parrot and Blue Lake Labels by Armin Büttner, Robert Campbell, and Robert Pruter
  4. ↑ Notes on 45cat
  5. ^ Dan Dietz: The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals . Lanham; Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, p. 73
  6. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, ed. from Library of Congress. Copyright Office, 1971, p. 333
  7. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, 1967, p. 1509
personal data
SURNAME Guy, Browley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guy JJ., Browley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American R&B musician and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1925