Champion Jack Dupree
William Thomas "Champion Jack" Dupree (born October 23, 1909 in New Orleans , † January 21, 1992 in Hanover ) was an American blues singer and pianist.
Live and act
After his parents were killed in a fire, Dupree was placed at the age of two in the same New Orleans child care home where Louis Armstrong had previously spent some youth. He learned the blues game from the barrelhouse pianist Willie "Drive 'em down" Hall. From 1930 he lived first in Chicago , then in Detroit . In 1935 he became a boxer in Indianapolis and completed 107 fights.
His first recording session took place on June 13, 1940 in Chicago. The Warehouse Man Blues / Chain Gang Blues was his first of 10 singles for OKeh Records , to which he remained loyal until the end of 1945. The Junker Blues , composed by Willie Hall and published in April 1941, was recorded here on January 28, 1941 as OKeh # 06152 . The song later formed the basis for Fats Domino's first album, The Fat Man and Lawdy Miss Clawdy of Lloyd Price .
During the Second World War he served as a ship's cook in the Navy in the Pacific from 1943. After two years as a Japanese prisoner of war , he returned to the USA in 1946 and devoted himself to blues music again. Dupree now developed into a label hopper who stayed with a record label for only a few recordings and then switched again. From Lenox to Continental he went to Solo Records without this having led to any measurable success in the rhythm & blues charts. It was not until the tenth record label, King Records , that Walking the Blues / Daybreak Rock emerged on May 29, 1955 (King # 4812), the only hit (# 6 in the R&B charts) within Dupree's long-standing record career.
He lived in England in the 1960s and 1970s and made recordings with Eric Clapton and John Mayall , among others . He was married and had two biological daughters and an adopted daughter. Since 1976 he lived in Hanover , most recently in the Lister Tor high-rise building , and from here toured several times, especially in Europe, until his death. However, while he was still performing on large stages and festivals in the 1970s, such as the 1971 Jazz Festival in Montreux , he was also found on small stages in the 1980s, where he sometimes played in front of a handful of spectators. During the breaks, he told the audience about his childhood experiences with the Ku Klux Klan . In 1990 he returned to New Orleans for the first time in 36 years. This is where the recordings for the album Back Home In New Orleans were made .
Discography (selection)
- Warehouse Man Blues / Chain Gang Blues (# 05656), July 1940
- Black Woman Swing / Cabbage Greens No. 1 (# 05713), August 1940
- Gamblin 'Man Blues / New Low Down Dog (# 05769), September 1940
- Cabbage Greens No. 2 / Angola Blues (# 05823), October 1940
- That's All Right / My Baby's Gone (# 06068), February 1941
- My Cabin Inn / Junker Blues (# 06152), April 1941
- Bad Health Blues / Weed Head Woman (# 06197), May 1941
- Big Time Mama / Heavy Heart Blues (# 6597), February 1942
- All Alone Blues / Black Cow Blues (# 6642), March 1942
Lenox Records:
- Bad Whiskey and Wild Women / Bus Station Blues (# 505), 1945
- Going Down Slow / Mean Old Frisco (# 6066), 1945
- How Long, How Long Blues / I Think You Need a Shot (# 6064), 1945
- Let's Have a Ball / Hard Feeling (# 6065), 1945
Solo Records:
- Once I Had a Girl / Black Woman Blues (# 10-014), 1945
Joe Davis Records:
- Rum Cola Blues / She Makes Good Jelly (# 5100), May 1945
- Johnson Street Boogie Woogie / I'm Going Down With You (# 5101), June 1945
- FDR Blues / God Bless Our New President (# 5102), July 1945
- County Jail Special / Fisherman's Blues (# 5103), August 1945
- Black Wolf / Lover's Lane (# 5104), September 1945
- Walkin 'by Myself / Outside Man (# 5105), October 1945
- Forget It Mama / You've Been Drunk (# 5106), November 1945
- Santa Claus Blues / Gin Mill Sal (# 5107), November 1945
- Wet Deck Mama / Love Strike Blues (# 5108), December 1945
- Fifth Avenue Blues / Highway 31 (# 421), 1946
Celebrity Records:
- Big Legged Mama / I'm a Doctor for Women (# 2012), April 1946
Apollo Records:
- Come Back Baby / Chittlins and Rice (# 407), April 1949
- Mean Mistreatin 'Mama / One Sweet Letter (# 413), Nov. 1949
- Old Woman Blues / Lonesome Bedroom Blues (# 421), May 1950
- Deacon's Party / My Baby's Coming Back Home (# 426), May 1951
- Just Plain Tired / I'm Gonna Find You Some Day (# 428), August 1951
Robin Records:
- Highway Blues / Shake Baby Shake (# 112), 1953
- Stumbling Block Blues / Number Nine Blues (# 109), 1953
- Drunk Again / Shim Sham Shimmy (# 130), 1954
- The Blues Got Me Rockin '/ Tongue-Tied Blues (# 4633), May 1953
- Ain't No Meat on de Bone / Please Tell Me Baby (# 4651), August 1953
- Walkin 'Upside Your Head / Hard Feeling (# 4695), January 1954
- Rub a Little Boogie / Camille (# 4706), April 1954
- Two Below Zero / Blues for Everybody (# 4779), March 1955
- Harelip Blues / Let the Doorbell Ring (# 4797), May 1955
- Walking the Blues / Daybreak Rock (with Mr. Bear) (# 4812), June 1955
- That's My Pa / Stumbling Block (# 45-4827), August 1955
- She Cooks Me Cabbage / Silent Partner (# 45-4859), November 1955
- Failing Health Blues / Me and My Mule (# 45-4876), January 1956
- Overhead (Blues) / So Sorry, So Sorry (# 45-4906), March 1956
- Mail Order Woman / Big Leg Emma's (# 45-4938), June 1956
Vik Records:
- Dirty Woman / Just Like a Woman (# 0260), January 1957
- Old Time Rock and Roll / Rocky Mountain (# 0279), March 1957
- Shake Baby Shake / Lollipop Baby (# 0304), October 1957
Federal Records:
- Two Below Zero / Sharp Harp (# 45-12408), January 1957
- Frankie and Johnny / Strollin ' (# 2032), June 1959
- TB Blues / Junker's Blues (PD 7-8639), 1959
- Shirley May / Whiskey Head Woman (#A 45051), (December 13th 1960)
- Shake Baby Shake / Walking Down the Highway (# 5025), 1963
- Highway Blues / Shake Baby Shake (# 5032), 1965
Blue Horizon:
- Get Your Head Happy / Easy Is The Way (# 45-1007), 1966
- I haven´t done no-one no harm / How am I doing it (with Stan Webb)
- Ba 'La Fouche, Kansas City (# 57-3152), 1969
- I Want to Be a Hippy / Going Back to Louisiana (# 57-3158), 1969
- Barrelhouse Woman / Under Your Hood (#F 12611), May 12, 1967
GNP:
- Anthologie du Blues Vol. 1 , 1973
- I'm Happy To Be Free , 1973
- Legacy Of The Blues Vol. 3 , 1976
literature
- Hugo Thielen : Champion Jack Dupree In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 141.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The date of birth is also 4, 10 or 23 July. or the years 1908, 1909 or 1910 are given.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dupree, Champion Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dupree, William Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American blues singer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1992 |
| Place of death | Hanover |