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:
Jon Hendricks & The Dave Lambert Singers [B-side of Four Brothers; first collaboration Hendricks-Lambert]
Don Lang [hit UK; the session trombone player on The Beatles' White Album]
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross [on lp The Hottest New Group in Jazz]
Barry Manilow [on debut]
Pointer Sisters [on debut album]
Porky Cohen [with Roomful Of Blues]
Most covers have vocals; lyrics by Jon Hendricks.
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Arnold Rypens
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