HUCKLEBUCK, THE
Created on 24/06/2007Latest update on 30/10/2018
Artist: Paul Williams & his Hucklebuckers
Author: Andy Gibson
Label: Savoy
Year: 1948
Instrumental. N°1 R&B in '49.
Covers:
- 1949:
Roy Milton [first vocal version; lyrics by Roy Alfred who also wrote Rock 'n Roll Waltz (n°1 US for Kay Starr in '55)]
- 1949:
Tito Burns Sextet [second vocal version]
- 1949:
- 1949:
Tommy Dorsey [vocal: Charlie Shavers]
- 1949:
- 1949:
- 1951:
- 1953:
Earl Hooker [instrumental for Sun]
- 1954:
Lou Monte [as Italian Hucklebuck]
- 1959:
- 1960:
- 1963:
- 1964:
- 1965:
Royal Showband Waterford [hit B]
- 1968:
- 1974:
Clifton Chenier [with Elvin Bishop on guitar]
- 1981:
Coast To Coast [hit UK]
- 1982:
Forbans [as La Fille du flipper]
- 1995:
- 1996:
Porky Cohen [as D-Natural Blues; played with Lucky Millinder who cut the original (see footnote)]
Paul Williams recorded his Hucklebuck after hearing Lucky Millinder's D-Natural Blues (another Andy Gibson composition) with Slim Henderson's sax solo. Millinder recorded his D-Natural Blues after Williams cut his Hucklebuck. The Hucklebuck is also influenced by the theme of Charlie Parker's Now's The Time, a tune he recorded with his Ree-Boppers for Savoy in '45, with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Curley Russell and Max Roach; covered by Jimmy Liggins in '47.
