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Chanteur
Rockabilly US né le 2 Mai 1933 à Belzoni (Louisiane). Glenn Honeycutt à 7 ans suit sa famille à Memphis (Tennessee) et devient par la suite garçon d'épicerie. A 15 ans, Glenn participe à un concours de chant et sa mère lui enseigne les rudiments de la guitare, qui lui permet d'imiter son idole
Hank Williams. Mais ce n'est qu'en
1957, après son service militaire, qu'il décide de tenter sa chance à la Sun Records de Memphis (Tennessee), où il enregistre un premier single. Glenn Honeycutt enregistrera ensuite pour
Black Gold (64) et Fernwood Records (64). Il devient par la suite facteur à Walls (Mississippi).
Glenn
Honeycutt was a singer/guitarist who came to Memphis from Mississippi, the same
route as a younger contemporary of his named
Elvis Presley -- who also happened to be a cousin of his (their grandmothers
were sisters), though they never did meet. Born near Belzoni, MS in 1933,
Honeycutt was brought up in Memphis after the death of his father. He was always
musically inclined, and after the draft pulled him into the military for a
couple of years, he decided to try making it as a musician. By 1954, Honeycutt
was playing and singing around Memphis and auditioned for Sam Phillips at Sun
Records -- a balladeer by inclination, Honeycutt came in with a few
country-style songs, but was rejected on that basis. The following year, however,
he was leading a band called Glenn Honeycutt & His Rhythmaires, which included
guitarist
Jack Clement in its ranks. And when
Clement was hired at Sun, he persuaded Phillips to give Honeycutt another
chance -- the result was one of the best records that Sun never issued, "Rock
All Night." Actually, the latter apparently was scheduled and then pulled for
its risqué lyric. Instead, Honeycutt's sole Sun release was "I'll Be Around"/"I'll
Wait Forever." There were a dozen sides recorded, most of which never surfaced,
and Honeycutt subsequently recorded for labels such as Black Gold ("Right Gal
Right Place Right Time" b/w "You'll Die of Loneliness"), and Fernwood
("Tombigbee Queen" b/w "Campus Love"), all without notable or lasting success.
He kept his day job with the United States Postal Service in Memphis, and might
have been a footnote in history had it not been for fellow country artist Randy
Rich, who brought Honeycutt's name to Rhythm Bomb Records, a London-based
rockabilly revival label -- the result was a tour of Germany and Sweden, on
which Honeycutt proved he could still deliver musically, and the recording of
Honeycutt's first album, 40 years after he entered the business. And just to
prove that Honeycutt still had what it took after all of those years, of the 12
songs on Mr. All Night Rock, 11 were originals.
Talents : Vocals, Guitar
Style musical : Rockabilly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJ6pms_f80
ALL
NIGH ROCK
(1956)
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Rock
All Night (1956)
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Right Gal Right Place Right Time
(1964)
TOMBIGBEE QUEEN (1964)
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Years in activity :
1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
78 t. & Singles
04/1957 | 78 t. & SP SUN 264 (US) |
I'll Be Around
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09/1964 | SP BLACK GOLD 100 (US) |
Right Gal Right Place Right Time
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1964 | SP FERNWOOD 142 (US) |
Tombigbee Queen
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2001 ? | SP NORTON 851 (US) |
Rock All Night (Glenn HONEYCUTT) /
Miss Pearl
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Unissued Tracks
1956 | SUN unissued - (Charly CD 36 (#18) / Charly CD 713 (#43) / Charly CD 8274 (#25) / Disky CD 03 (#32) / J!mco CD 89194 (#21) / Music Club CD 024 (#7) / NME LP 5 (#10) / Sun CD 024 (#7) / Sun (England) 10 504 (#5)) | All Night Rock [vers. 1] |
1956 | SUN unissued - (Sun (England) LP 1025 (#14)) |
All
Night Rock [vers. 2]
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1956 | SUN unissued - (Charly CD 8318 (#25)) | Bagpipe Rock |
1956 | SUN unissued - (Charly CD 8353 (#24) / Sun (England) LP 1036 (#14)) | Be Wise Don't Cry |
1956 | SUN unissued - (Charly CD 8318 (#26) / SAAR CD 41008 (#12)) | Hula Lula |
1956 | SUN unissued | I'll Have You |
1956 | SUN unissued - (Sun (England) LP 1036 (#7)) | I'll Wait Forever [alt. vers.] |
1956 | SUN unissued | On Mobile Bay |
1956 | SUN unissued - (AVI CD 5019 (#17) / Bear Family CD 16210 (#1) / Charly CD 8161 (#10) / Charly CD 8352 (#23) / Disky CD 250542 (#41) / Dressed To Kill/BMG CD 66 (#41) / Emusic/Charly MP 11312766 (#23) / Lucky CD 801 (#23) / SAAR CD [RR1] (#23) / SAAR CD [2] (#9) / Select CD 586 (#20) / Stomper Time EP 3 (#1) / Sun 10 802 (#1)) |
Rock
All Night
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1956 | SUN unissued - (Charly CD 713 (#63) / Charly CD 8274 (#59)) | Search For Me |
1956 | SUN unissued | Skylark Baby [vers. 1] |
1958 | SUN unissued - (Charly CD 8137 (#14) / Stomper Time CD 9 (#18)) | Campus Love [alt. vers.] |
1958 | SUN unissued - (Bopcat LP 700 (#7)) | Skylark Baby [vers. 2] |
19?? | Unissued - (Bopcat LP 400 (#9)) | Right Gal Right Place Right Time [alt. vers.] |
Album
12/2005 | CD RHYTHM BOMB RBR 5615 (GER) |
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MR. ALL NIGHT ROCK - Glenn Honeycutt & The Poor Boys - Look What I Found At The Movies / Gonna Love You All Over / There's No Unloving You / Tennessee Rockin' Girl / Don't Leave Me Tonight / Sailing The Seven Seas / Backdoor Billy / Saturday Night / My Heart / Promise Me Love / New Orleans Is The Place To Be / A Love Song |
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