Don Lang

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Don Lang , née Gordon Langhorn , ( January 19, 1925 in Halifax , England - August 3, 1992 in London ) was an English jazz trombonist and rock 'n' roll singer. As the band leader of the group Don Lang & his Frantic Five , he celebrated his greatest success with cover versions in England in the late 1950s.

biography

The trained electrician made his first professional appearance in 1947 on the Isle of Man . Lang's role models included the American jazz trombonists Jack Teagarden and Bill Harris . At first he worked as a jazz trombonist, a. a. with Vic Lewis and Ken Mackintosh . His commercial success only began as a singer of rock and roll titles. He and his band, founded in 1953, were the house band of the first rock'n'roll show on the BBC called Six-Five Special , for which he also recorded the theme song. Lang was also successful as a skiffle musician. In 1958, his cover version of the song Witch Doctor by David Seville reached number 5 on the British singles chart . On the Beatles' White Album , he played the trombone in Revolution 1 .

In the 1970s and 1980s he worked solo as a cabaret artist. Don Lang ended his stage career in the late 1980s. Don Lang is the father of bassist Brad Lang. He died in 1992 at the age of 67 after suffering from cancer for a long time. He left two children and a wife.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Cloudburst
  UK 16 05/11/1955 (4 weeks)
School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes The Bell)
  UK 26th 07/06/1957 (2 weeks)
Witch Doctor
  UK 5 05/24/1958 (11 weeks)
Sink The Bismarck
  UK 43 03/12/1960 (1 week)

Albums

  • Peaksoft PEA017: The Complete 50s Singles - 2012 (including HMV POP714 from 1960)

Singles

Don Lang

  • HMV POP115: Cloudburst (Claude Cloud / Jimmie Harris / Jon Hendricks / Leroy Kirkland) / Seventeen - 1955
  • HMV POP150: Four Brothers / I Want You to Be My Baby - 1956
  • HMV POP178: Rock Around the Island / Jumpin 'to Conclusions - 1956
  • HMV POP224: Rock and Roll Blues / Stop the World I Wanna Get Off - 1956
  • HMV POP260: Sweet Sue Just for You / Lazy Latin - 1956

Don Lang & his Frantic Five

  • Electrola HMV 45-EG 8775: Red Sputnik Rock (Red Planet Rock) / Texas Tambourine - 1956
  • HMV POP289: Rock Around the Cookhouse / Rock Mister Piper
  • HMV POP335: Rock-A-Billy / Come Go With Me
  • HMV POP350: School Day (Chuck Berry) - 1957
  • HMV POP488: Witch Doctor (David Seville) - 1958
  • HMV POP649: A Hoot and a Holler / See You Friday
  • HMV POP682: Reveille Rock / Frankie and Johnny - 1959 UK pressing
  • HMV POP714: Sink the Bismarck / They Call Him Cliff - 1960 (The title of the B-side pays homage to Cliff Richard )

Web links

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  1. ↑ Don Lang - Biography - IMDb . Us.imdb.com. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  2. ^ A b David Roberts: British Hit Singles & Albums , 19th. Edition, Guinness World Records Limited, London 2006, ISBN 1-904994-10-5 , p. 312.
  3. ↑ Chas McDevitt: Skiffle: The Definitive Inside Story . Robson Books, 1997, ISBN 9781861051400 , p. 137.
  4. ^ John Chilton: Who's Who of British Jazz , 2nd. Edition, Bloomsbury, 2004, ISBN 9780826423894 , p. 211.
  5. ↑ Colin Larkin: Encyclopedia of Popular Music , 4th ed. Edition, Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780199726363 .
  6. ^ Don Lang , The Times, Aug. 26, 1992, Features
  7. ^ Don Lang , The Herald (Glasgow), Aug. 5, 1992, p. 2
  8. ↑ Chart sources: UK
personal data
SURNAME Lang, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langhorn, Gordon (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English jazz trombonist and rock'n'roll singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1992
Place of death London