Sunday, January 2, 2011

Jimmy McCracklin - Get Back

Jimmy McCracklin (born August 13, 1921, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American pianist, vocalist, andsongwriter. His style contains West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B. Over a career that has spanned seven decades, he says he has written almost a thousand songs and has recorded hundreds of them. McCracklin has recorded over 30 albums, and owns four gold records.
Here is "Get Back" from a 1956 Premium Records 45rpm release.

2 comments:

  1. Woo Hoo! Get back Jimmy!

    A nice tune that I'd never heard before.

    Thanks

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  2. He deserved more than 4 Gold records. He made great 45 singles for quite a few labels, I like them all!

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