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Through the late 1940s and early 1950s, R & B music had been gaining a stronger beat and a wilder style, with artists such as Fats Domino and Johnny Otis speeding up the tempos and increasing the backbeat to great popularity on the juke joint circuit.
Johnny Otis released the R & B mambo " Mambo Boogie " in January 1951, featuring congas, maracas, claves, and mambo saxophone guajeos in a blues progression.
Listen: " Mambo Boogie " by Johnny Otis ( 1951 ).
" Mambo Boogie " by Johnny Otis ( 1951 ).
" Johnny Otis ' " Willie and the Hand Jive " ( 1958 ) is another example of this successful blend of 3-2 clave and R & B.
Watch: " Hand Jive " performed by Johnny Otis.
The Johnny Otis Show.
Johnny Otis, who had signed with the Newark, New Jersey-based Savoy Records, produced many R & B hits in 1951, including: " Double Crossing Blues ", " Mistrustin ' Blues " and " Cupid's Boogie ", all of which hit number one that year.
Turner has frequently been referred to as a ' great innovator ' of Rock and Roll by contemporaries such as Little Richard and Johnny Otis.
Some famous residents of Sebastopol include: The horticulturist Luther Burbank who established an Gold Ridge Environmental Farm in the township in the late 19th century ; Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues pioneer ; Willard Libby, inventor of carbon dating went to Analy High School ; the cartoonist Charles Schulz ; rapper Smoov-E ; actress Karen Valentine of the television show Room 222 ; actress Schuyler Grant of the 1985 adaptation of Anne of Green Gables ; and the musicians Les Claypool of Primus, singer / songwriters Nick Gravenites, and both Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead ; novelist Francine Rivers ; actor Peter Krause.
Harris ' band was assembled by Johnny Otis, and the group recorded the 78rpm record " Around the Clock ".
The El Monte Legion Stadium, outside the city limits, became the site of a series for rock and roll concerts by Johnny Otis and other performers.
Mayall continued the experiment of formations without drummers on two more albums, although he took on a new electric blues-rock-R & B band in guitarist Harvey Mandel and bassist Larry Taylor, both plucked from Canned Heat, and wailing violinist Don " Sugarcane " Harris, lately of the Johnny Otis Show.
The pianist on the " Johnny B. Goode " session was Lafayette Leake, one of the two main session pianists for Chess ( the other being Otis Spann ).
In the late 1940s, the eldest children, including Willie, formed a gospel singing group, and Willie also performed in talent shows, which brought him to the notice of Johnny Otis and, later, musician and producer Henry Glover.
The 14-year-old girl met musician Johnny Otis.
Her death came three days after that of Johnny Otis, the man who discovered her in the 1950s.
In 1953, Ballard joined doo-wop group The Royals, which had previously been discovered by Johnny Otis and signed to Federal Records, ( a division of King Records ), in Cincinnati.
The Pips scored their first hit in 1961 with " Every Beat of My Heart ", a cover of a Hank Ballard & The Midnighters song written by Johnny Otis.
King, Freddie King, Albert Collins, Johnny " Guitar " Watson, Buddy Guy, Howlin ' Wolf, Otis Rush, Guitar Slim, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters.
These singer-songwriters included Bob Dylan, Jackie DeShannon, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Tom Rush, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, Jackson Browne, John Prine, Grace Slick, Dave Mason, Jim Croce, Fred Neil, Roger McGuinn, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Donovan, Stephen Stills, Randy Newman, Steve Goodman, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Brady, Jesse Winchester, Johnny Tillotson, Sylvia Tyson, Ian Tyson, Nick Drake, Tim Hardin, Laura Nyro, Carly Simon, John Fogerty, Eric Andersen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Armatrading, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Cat Stevens, Bruce Cockburn, Harry Chapin, James Taylor, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lou Reed, Gram Parsons, Nick Gravenites, Rick Nelson, Richard Fariña, Tuli Kupferberg Mark Spoelstra, Don Mclean, Patrick Sky, Jimmy Buffett, Mickey Newbury, Janis Ian, Dan Fogelberg, Dave Van Ronk, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, and Frank Zappa.
Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes ( December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012 ), better known as Johnny Otis, was an American singer, musician, composer, and record producer.
" Johnny Otis, White, Heads " Negro " Blues Band " p 60.

Johnny and along
Johnson would be dealt along with Johnny Oates to the Atlanta Braves for catcher and 1971 National League Rookie of the Year Earl Williams.
The Cottage Pavilion dates back to 1905 along with the Johnny Haynes Stand, built by renowned football architect Archibald Leitch.
In his book, Tarzan, My Father, Johnny Weissmuller Jr. stated that although rumors of Peter Weissmüller living to " a ripe old age, remarrying along the way and spawning a large brood of little Weissmüllers " were reported, no one in the family was aware of his ultimate fate.
Foday Sankoh, already in custody, was indicted, along with notorious RUF field commander Sam " Mosquito " Bockarie, Johnny Paul Koroma, and Hinga Norman, the Minister of Interior and former head of the Civil Defense Force, among several others.
After going into the United States Marine Corps as an aviator at the end of 1942, Williams also played on the baseball team in Chapel Hill, North Carolina along with his Red Sox teammate Johnny Pesky in pre-flight training, after eight weeks in Amherst, Massachusetts and the Civilian Pilot Training Course.
The 2005 TOC, made up of the top twenty qualifying players at each circuit event, along with the final table from the 2005 Main Event and the winners of nine or more bracelets ( Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, and Phil Hellmuth ) would participate in the revamped TOC at Caesars Palace.
Shortly after Lowery's former group Camper Van Beethoven finished in 1990, he began demoing material along with his boyhood friend, the guitarist Johnny Hickman.
On a team with many great players, Rose, along with Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Tony Pérez, was viewed as one of the club's leaders.
Buck, along with CBS Radio colleagues Johnny Bench and John Rooney, was on hand at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on October 17, 1989, when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit.
Johnny, Ginny, and Toby are next seen skipping along and singing " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah " while Johnny's returned puppy runs alongside them.
In early 1964, he joined Mingus ' working band again, along with Jaki Byard, Johnny Coles, and Clifford Jordan.
* The electro-rock band Judge Rock pays homage to Crisis in their 2012 song Westerner, in which Jonah Hex, Bat Lash, Nighthawk ( DC Comics ), Johnny Thunder and Scalphunter ( DC Comics ) appear, along with the alien abduction taking them through time in episode three of the Crisis comic-book.
Regular contributors included Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Will Elder, George Evans, Harry Harrison, Graham Ingels, Al Williamson, Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Kamen, Bernard Krigstein, John Severin, Joe Orlando and Frank Frazetta, along with editor / artists Harvey Kurtzman and Al Feldstein.
Singer Johnny Cash owned a home along the Pithlachascotee River from 1979 until 2002.
The mill and dam are long since gone, but they are remembered along with Johnny McCall in the name of McCalls Dam State Park.
Noone is generally regarded as one of the greatest of the second generation of jazz clarinetists, along with Johnny Dodds and Sidney Bechet.
Doug Lacy ( Boingo live keyboardist and percussionist ) recruited bassist John Avila, guitarist Steve Bartek, drummer Johnny " Vatos " Hernandez, and saxophonist Sam Phipps ( along other musicians ) for band called Doug & The Mystics.
After the 1993 release of the first Jerky Boys album, Johnny B., Kamal, along with James Melkonian and Rich Wilkes, commenced writing a screenplay for a proposed Jerky Boys film for producers Joe Roth and Roger Birnbaum's production company Caravan Pictures.
The latter, along with several others, was illustrated by Johnny Gruelle.
On September 12, 2004, the band performed along with other punk rock groups in a tribute concert for Johnny Ramone, in which the proceeds were given to support cancer research.
: " Fade Away ", accompanied by friend and Oasis fan Johnny Depp and Depp's then-girlfriend Kate Moss ; and The Beatles ' 1969 hit " Come Together ", along with Paul Weller, Paul McCartney and others in a supergroup called Smokin ' Mojo Filters.
Gunfights are staples of every episode of the series, and the series ' two child leads -- Johnny Sokko and Mari Hanson ; the latter, called Mari Hanamura in the Japanese version, is a 9-year-old girl, introduced in the seventh episode, who speaks 39 languages and is a crack shot with a firearm -- were frequently seen shooting along with the rest of the Unicorn agents.
* The television show Mud Men follows Johnny Vaughan as he teams up with Steve Brooker to go mudlarking along the Thames foreshore.
Later she recalled the circumstances: " Franc Roddam, the director, was thinking of casting Johnny Rotten ( Lydon ) in the lead role, and I went along and helped him audition by improvising with him and being a friend to him.

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