Roy Evans (musician)

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Roy Evans was an American singer, drummer, and pianist.

Roy Evans played in New Orleans in 1925 as a drummer with the Imperial Serenaders ( Climax Rag ), which probably also included George Lewis . In the second half of the 1920s, Evans, who was of African American descent, became known as the yodelling singer of novelty songs in vaudeville and minstrel shows ; he sang in the style of Jimmie Rodgers and Emmett Miller . In 1928 he made recordings in Atlanta for Columbia Records under his own name ( Weary Yodelin 'Blues / I Ain't Got Nobody ). Until 1931 he took on other records; Jazz musicians such as Garvin Bushell , Tommy Dorsey , Benny Goodman (under the band name Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys ), Fud Livingston , Lee Morse , Red Nichols , Adrian Rollini , Frank Signorelli , Eddie Lang , Ben Selvin , Joe Venuti and Arthur Whetsol took part With. In Dusky Stevedore (1928) he was accompanied by the pianist James P. Johnson . Further recordings were made for Regal ( The New St. Louis Blues ). In 1929 he worked in the MGM musical film St Louis Blues .

According to Bart Plantenga processed Evans not only Blues - phrasing and African-American vocal styles, but also elements of blackface singer (from the Vaudeville) and his idol Jimmie Rodgers. His best-known titles also included The Yodelin 'Man, Farmer John's Yodel and Lonesome Yodelin' Blues .

Discographic notes

  • Blue Yodelers 1928-1936 , with Jimmie Rodgers and Emmett Miller (Retrieval, ed. 1999)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, September 7, 2013)
  2. ↑ Bart Plantenga: Yodel in Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica. University of Wisconsin Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-299-29054-2 , p. 97.
personal data
SURNAME Evans, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH before 1925
DATE OF DEATH after 1929