Eddie Mack

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Eddie Mack , actually Mack Edmondson , (around 1920 - after 1950) was an American rhythm and blues and blues singer who enjoyed his greatest popularity in Brooklyn around 1950 as a blues shouter .

Live and act

Mack, who was from Beaumont, Texas , was part of the Brooklyn blues scene in the late 1940s and early 50s. He worked u. a. with the orchestras of Cootie Williams (in which he replaced Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson , including in Things Ain't What They Used to Be , 1947), Bobby Smith ( Kind Lovin 'Daddy , Apollo # 414) and Lucky Millinder .

During his recordings, from 1949 for Apollo Records ( Hoot and Holler Saturday Night / Cool Mama , 1950, # 417) and from 1952 for Savoy Records ( Key Hole Blues , # 45-853), If You Want Me to Come Home Baby, Heart Throbbing Blues (1949) and Last Hour Blues (Savoy, 1952) featured musicians such as Willis Jackson , Bill Jennings , Haywood Henry , René Hall , Grachan Moncur II , Bobby Donaldson and Mickey Baker . In 1952 he recorded for King Records under his own name ( Everybody Loves a Fat Man [and Oh How a Fat Man Can Love / Loud Mouth Lucy] ); the recordings, arrangements by Leroy Kirkland , remained unpublished. Mack's best-known titles included You Got to Pay Those Dues / Mercenary Papa (1949, with Cootie Williams, Mercury # 8168), as well as the cover versions of Tennessee Ernie Ford's Shotgun Boogie and Merle Travis ' Divorce Me COD

Discographic notes

  • Complete Recordings: 1947-1952 (Blue Moon, ed. 2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Living Blues , 2002 - issues 161-165 - page 74.
  2. ↑ a b Billboard Oct. 22, 1949
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 27, 2014)
  4. ^ Billboard Feb. 18, 1950
  5. ↑ Larry Birnbaum: Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll . 2013, page 233
  6. ↑ http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/roots/BLUES%20&%20GOSPEL/blues_m1.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/the_complete_recordings_vol.1_1947-1952-cd-2166.html
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edmondson, Mack (real name); Blues shouter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American R&B and blues singer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920
DATE OF DEATH after 1950