HONEY HUSH

Created on 21/01/2006
Latest update on 14/01/2024

Artist: Big Joe Turner
Author: Lou Willie Brown
Label: Atlantic
Year: 1953

Kansas City meets New Orleans on a New York label. Recorded in New Orleans with Pluma Davis' band. Credited to Big Joe's wife Lou Willie Brown, regular trick to bypass the taxman, but a problem when it ends up in a divorce.

Covers:

1956:

Johnny Burnette Trio

1957:

Pat Boone

1960:

Jerry Lee Lewis

1962:

Clyde McPhatter

1964:

Christian's Crusaders [with Jimmy Page]

1974:

Foghat

1977:

Roomful Of Blues

1978:

NRBQ

1978:

Pirates

1981:

Elvis Costello

1982:

Whirlwind

1999:

Paul McCartney [in a Johnny Burnette way]

2001:

Tommy Conwell & The Little Kings

The refrain at the end of Big Joe's Honey Hush echoes Hi Yo Silver's, a song first recorded by Harold Burrage with the Horace Henderson orchestra for Decca in 1950 and covered by Roy Brown ('50), The Treniers ('52) and Bennie Green ('55). "Hi yo Silver away" was the Lone Ranger's standard yell to his horse.

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