Everybody Dance the Honky Tonk

Everybody Dance the Honky Tonk is an album by American jazz/R&B organist Bill Doggett released by the King label in 1956.[1][2][3]

Everybody Dance the Honky Tonk
Studio album by
Released1956
RecordedMay 19, 1954, January 12, 1956, June 16, 1956, September 18, 1956 and October 12 & 29, 1956
StudioCincinnati, OH and New York City, NY
GenreJazz
Length34:22
LabelKing
King 531
Bill Doggett chronology
As You Desire Me
(1956)
Everybody Dance the Honky Tonk
(1956)
Dame Dreaming
(1957)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]

AllMusic reviewer Bill Dahl stated "This hugely influential jazz-laced R&B quartet plays their classic two-part instrumentals and several more groovers".[4]

Track listing

  1. "Honky Tonk (Part 1)" (Bill Doggett, Billy Butler, Clifford Scott, Shep Shepherd) – 3:04
  2. "Honky Tonk (Part 2)" (Doggett, Butler, Scott, Shepherd) – 2:36
  3. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 2:54
  4. "Afternoon Jump" (B. Red Ellis) – 2:51
  5. "Peacock Alley" (Butler) – 2:36
  6. "Big Boy" (Bill Jennings) – 3:08
  7. "Slow Walk" (Sil Austin) – 2:34
  8. "Nothin' Yet" (Ellis) – 3:41
  9. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 2:44
  10. "Honky Tonk Number Three" (Doggett, Butler, Scott, Shepherd) – 2:44
  11. "Leaps and Bounds" (Scott, Ellis, Butler, Shepherd) – 5:30
  • Recorded in Cincinnati, OH on May 19, 1954 (track 4), September 18, 1956 (track 11), October 12, 1956 (tracks 5 & 10) and October 29, 1956 (tracks 6-8), and New York City, NY on January 12, 1956 (track 9), June 16, 1956 (tracks 1-3)

Personnel[3]

  • Bill Doggett – organ
  • Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone (tracks 1-3 & 5-11)
  • Irving "Skinny" Brown – tenor saxophone (track 4)
  • Clifford Bush (track 4), Billy Butler (tracks 1-3 & 5-11), John Faire (tracks 5-8, 10 & 11) – guitar
  • Edwyn Conley (tracks 5-8 & 10), Al Lucas (track 9), Carl Pruitt (tracks 1-3), Clarence Mack (track 4) - bass
  • Shep Shepherd – drums
  • Tommy Brown – vocals, maracas, claves (tracks 6-8)

References

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