Floyd McDaniel

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Floyd Edward "Butter" McDaniel (born July 21, 1915 in Athens (Alabama) ; † July 22, 1995 in Chicago ) was an American guitarist and singer in the fields of blues , jazz , rhythm & blues and doo-wop .

McDaniel came to Chicago at the age of 15 and began his career in 1933 in the youth band The Rhythm Rascals , which made their debut at the Chicago World's Fair . A talent scout for the Cotton Club discovered him while performing at the Apollo Theater in New York , which led to a longer engagement as head of the Cotton Club Tramp Band ; Recordings were made in 1937 with The Tramp Band (with Lester "Pinky" Johnson and Al Cowans). From 1941 to 1954 he played in the Chicago jump blues group The Four Blazes (in changing line-ups with Paul Lindsley "Jelly" Holt, Tommy Braden, Ernie Harper, William "Shorty" Hill, later as Five Blazers ) in the late 50s -Years also acted as backing band for Sam Cooke . The Four Blazes successfully released several 78s on Aristocrat ( Chicago Boogie , 1947) and United Artists Records such as Night Train / Rug Cutter , Perfect Woman, Please Send Her Back to Me, Mary Jo (# 1 on the R&B charts in 1952), All Night Long and Please Send Her Back to Me / Stop Boogie Woogie (1952) and the single Chicago Boogie / Dedicated to You as Five Blazes . After the Five Blazes broke up , McDaniels bought a bar in Chicago.

For the following decade, McDaniel was a member of a rock band; in the 1970s appeared as a guitarist with one of the revival groups operating as Ink Spots . In the 1980s he played with Willie Dixon in the Big Three Trio . Recordings were made in 1991 for Delmark Records with the band The Blues Swingers , led by tenor saxophonist Dave Clark, stylistically based on the blues and rhythm & blues of the 1940s ( Let Your Hair Down!, Delmark). Shortly before his death, Floyd McDaniel performed at the Breminale blues festival in 1994 . He died of a heart attack the day after his eightieth birthday on the Dan Ryan Expressway . In 1997 Delmark released McDaniel's album West Side Baby (Live in Europe) posthumously .

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  1. ↑ Nick Talevski: Rock Obituaries - Knocking On Heaven's Door . 2010, page 408.
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 29, 2014)
  3. ↑ The accompanists of the Blazes included u. a. also Red Holloway and Eddie Chamblee .
  4. ↑ http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/roots/BLUES%20&%20GOSPEL/blues_m2.htm
  5. ↑ JazzTimes - May 1998 - page 100
  6. ^ Bob L. Eagle, Eric S. LeBlanc, Blues: A Regional Experience 2013, p. 143
personal data
SURNAME McDaniel, Floyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDaniel, Floyd Edward (full name); McDaniel, Butter (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American R&B musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens (Alabama)
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1995
Place of death Chicago