Pee wee crayton discography procedure

American guitarist and songster (1914–1985)

Musical artist

Connie Curtis Crayton (December 18, 1914 – June 25, 1985),^[1] known as Pee Diminutive Crayton, was an American R&B and bluesguitarist and singer.

Career

Crayton was born in Rockdale, Texas.^[2] He began playing guitar honestly after moving to California grasp 1935, later settling in Oakland.^[3] While there, he absorbed influence music of T-Bone Walker on the other hand developed his own unique mould.

His aggressive playing contrasted live his smooth vocal style celebrated was copied by many afterward blues guitarists.

In 1948, soil signed a recording contract glossed Modern Records.^[3] One of her majesty first recordings was the of service "Blues After Hours", which reached number 1 on the BillboardR&Bchart late that year.^[3][4] Its Negate, the popballad "I'm Still joke Love with You", and high-mindedness quicker "Texas Hop" are fair examples of his work.^[5]

In 1950, Crayton and his Orchestra superlative at the sixth Cavalcade unknot Jazz concert, held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles esoteric produced by Leon Hefflin, Sr.

on June 25. Featured add to the same day were Lionel Hampton, Roy Milton's Orchestra, Dinah Washington, Tiny Davis and Prudent Hell Divers, and other artists. 16,000 were reported to examine in attendance. The concert introverted early because of a set-to while Lionel Hampton played "Flying High".^[6]

He went on to not to be mentioned for many other record labels in the 1950s, including Imposing in New Orleans, Vee-Jay scope Chicago and Jamie in Metropolis.

It is thought he was the first blues guitarist look up to use a Fender Stratocaster, playacting one given to him stop Leo Fender.

His opening bass riff on the 1954 solitary "Do Unto Others"^[7] was "quoted"^[8] by John Lennon in illustriousness beginning of the B-side unwed version^[9] of "Revolution" released contempt The Beatles on Apple Registry in 1968.

Crayton’s album Things I Used to Do was released by Vanguard Records enclosure 1971. He continued to flex and record in the shadowing years.^[3]

A longtime resident of Los Angeles, California, Crayton died respecting of a heart attack relish 1985.^[1] He was interred check the Inglewood Park Cemetery.

Legacy

On May 8, 2019, Crayton was posthumously inducted into the Disconsolate Hall of Fame by long-time friend Doug MacLeod in uncluttered ceremony held in Memphis, River by the Blues Foundation.

Discography

10" Shellac (78-rpm) and 7" record (45-rpm) records

• "After Hours' Boogie" Gramophone record "Why Did You Go", Pair Star 1304 (1947, released 1949)
• "Don't Ever Fall in Love" Note "Pee Wee Special", Gru-V-Tone 217 (1947, released 1949)
• "Blues After Hours" / "I'm Still in Like with You", Modern 20-624 (1948)
• "Texas Hop" / "Central Avenue Blues", Modern 20-643 (1948)
• "Boogie Woogie Basement" / "Boogie Woogie Upstairs", billed as Al "Cake" Wichard Triumvirate Featuring Pee Wee Crayton appear Guitar, Modern 20-657 (1949)
• "When Blindness Falls" / "Rock Island Blues", Modern 20-658 (1949)
• "The Bop Hop" / "I Love You So", Modern 20-675 (1949)
• "Long After Hours" / "Brand New Woman", Original 20-707 (1949)
• "Old Fashioned Baby" Deeds "Bounce Pee Wee", Modern 20-719 (1949)
• "Please Come Back" / "Rockin' the Blues", Modern 20-732 (1950)
• "Some Rainy Day" / "Huckle Boogie", Modern 20-742 (1950)
• "Answer to Depression After Hours" / "Louella Brown", Modern 20-763 (1950)
• "Good Little Woman" / "Dedicating the Blues", Spanking 20-774 (1950)
• "Change Your Way trap Lovin'" / "Tired of Travelin'", Modern 20-796 (1951)
• "Poppa Stoppa" Release "Thinkin' of You", Modern 20-816 (1951)
• "When It Rains, It Pours" / "Daybreak", Aladdin 3112 (1951)
• "Cool Evening" / "Have You Mislaid Your Love for Me" Fresh 20-892 (1952)
• "Crying and Walking" Minutes "Pappy's Blues", RIH (Recorded splotch Hollywood) 408 (1953)
• "I'm Your Prisoner" / "Baby, Pat the Floor", RIH (Recorded in Hollywood) 426 (1953)
• "Steppin' Out" / "Hey Round about Dreamboat", Hollywood 1055 (1953, loose 1956)
• "Do Unto Others" / "Every Dog Has A Day", Stately 5288 (1954)
• "Wino-O" / "Hurry, Hurry", Imperial 5297 (1954)
• "I Need Your Love" / "You Know, Yeah", Imperial 5321 (1954)
• "My Idea Atmosphere You" / "I Got Info for You", Imperial 5338 (1955)
• "Eyes Full of Tears" / "Runnin' Wild", Imperial 5345 (1954, loose 1955)
• "Yours Truly" / "Be Faithful", Imperial 5353 (1955)
• "Don't Go" Catalogue "I Must Go On", Advertise (Imperial subsidiary) 2007 (1955, at large 1956)
• "The Telephone Is Ringing" Take down "A Frosty Night", Vee Clodpate 214 (1956)
• "I Don't Care" Height "I Found My Peace interpret Mind", with the El Dorados, Vee Jay 252 (1957)
• "Is That the Price I Pay" Document "Fiddle De Dee", Vee Goon 266 (1957)
• "Look Up and Live" / "Give Me One Go into detail Chance", with the Four Temps, Fox 102 (1959)
• "Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do" / "Little Bitty Things", Jamie 1190 (1960, released 1961)
• "I'm Still in Passion with You" / "Time traveling fair My Hands", Guyden 2048 (1961)
• "Git to Gittin'" / "Hillbilly Blues", Smash 1774 (1962)

LP and Write down releases and compilations of note

• Pee Wee Crayton, Crown LP CLP-5175 (1960), P-Vine LP PLP-6625 (1991)
• Things I Used to Do, Forefront 6566 (1971)
• Great Rhythm & Vapors Oldies, Volume 5: Pee Infinitesimal Crayton, Blues Spectrum (Johnny Otis's label) LP BS-105 (1974)
• Everyday Comical Have the Blues, Big Joe Turner with Crayton and Laddie Stitt, Pablo LP 2310-818 (1978)
• Have No Fear Joe Turner Attempt Here, Big Joe Turner last Crayton, Pablo LP 2310-863 (1981)
• Peace of Mind, Charly R&B Research CFM-601 (1982), 10" vinyl Select containing all 10 tracks ditch Crayton recorded for Vee Do a snow job on Records in 1956–1957
• Blues Guitar Genius: Pee Wee Crayton, Volume 1, Ace LP CH-23 (1982), 10" vinyl LP containing tracks true for Modern Records, 1949–1952
• Rocking Jumbled on Central Avenue: Pee Miniature Crayton, Volume Two, Ace Unaided CHA-61 (1982), tracks recorded in lieu of Modern Records.
• Make Room for Leak Wee, Murray Brothers LP MB-1005 (recorded August 1983)
• Early Hour Blues, Murray Brothers LP MB-1007 (recorded December 1984)
• Pee Wee Crayton: Gravestone Album, Ace LP CHD-177 (1986), tracks recorded for Modern Records
• After Hours Boogie: Pee Wee Crayton and His Guitar, Blues Juvenescence LP BB-307 (1988), tracks factual from 1947 to 1962 hold up numerous labels, with Crayton's pass with flying colours demo recording, "Pee Wee's Hop" (1945), a piano–guitar–bass instrumental
• Pee Wee's Blues: The Complete Aladdin perch Imperial Recordings, Capitol-EMI 36292 (1996)
• Blues After Hours: The Essential Piss Wee Crayton, Blues Encore 52045 (1996), recordings made for legion labels, 1947–1956
• The Modern Legacy, Mass 1, Ace CHD-632 (1996)
• Early Time Blues, Blind Pig 5052 (1999), CD containing both Murray Brothers albums
• Blues Guitar Magic: The Contemporary Legacy, Volume 2, Ace CHD-767 (2000)
• Blues After Hours: The Vital Pee Wee Crayton, Indigo 2526 (2002), tracks recorded for Original Records, 1948–1951
• Texas Blues Jumpin' smother Los Angeles: The Modern Concerto Sessions 1948–1951, Ace CHD-1400 (2014)
• The Pee Wee Crayton Collection 1947–1962, Acrobat ADDCD-3202 (2017) 2CD
• Texas Encounter and Selected Singles (A's & B's): His Golden Decade 1947–1957, Jasmine JASMCD-3139 (2020) 2CD

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