CLOUDBURST
Created on 24/01/2006Latest update on 23/02/2010
Artist: Claude Cloud & his Thunderclaps
Author: Leroy Kirkland/Jimmy Harris
Label: MGM
Year: 1955
Alias of the Leroy Kirkland Orchestra on 10" Let's Get Cat-Static featuring Sam 'The Man' Taylor prominently. Plenty of Shave And A Haircut, Two Bits. Leroy also cowrote Something's Got A Hold On Me, Stop The Wedding and Mumbles Blues (see there).
Covers:
- 1955:
Jon Hendricks & The Dave Lambert Singers [B-side of Four Brothers; first collaboration Hendricks-Lambert]
- 1955:
Don Lang [hit UK; the session trombone player on The Beatles' White Album]
- 1959:
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross [on lp The Hottest New Group in Jazz]
- 1972:
Barry Manilow [on debut]
- 1973:
Pointer Sisters [on debut album]
- 1996:
Porky Cohen [with Roomful Of Blues]
- 1997:
Most covers have vocals; lyrics by Jon Hendricks.
