Grant Williams CEO of Memory Lane Concert Cruises today appear the celebrated Tony Allen will be a allotment of the twelve groups actualization on the allegorical West Coast Doo Wop Cruise. “Tony recorded his almanac at 14, three years after he recorded “Night Owl:” Which was a huge West Coast success," said Williams.
Tony Allen is one of the absolute characters in Los Angeles R&B. He recorded extensively, for dozens of labels, throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Allen grew up in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, not far from Fats Domino's abode so area he would generally go over and watch him play, who became his inspiration. His ancestor was a boner and his mother already played saxophone in her brothers The Sweethearts of Rhythm group. They aswell endemic the Dew Drop Inn, one of New Orleans' top R&B clubs in the 1940s and 50s.
During the Second World War Tony went to abide with his aunt in Los Angeles. He aboriginal abounding George Washington Carver High academy with classmates Arthur Lee Maya and Eugene Church and after abounding Jefferson High. "I abstruse to play piano in abbey if I was six and my accompany acclimated to alarm me names if they'd see me practicing. However bent to acquisition my way in music someday”.(said Allen) Tony recorded his aboriginal almanac "Angel Child"/"Check Yourself" in 1952 if he was 14 in Austin McCoy's backyard studio. "Check Yourself” issued afresh in 1955, aboriginal on the Ultra Record characterization than after repressed on Dig (Johnny Otis's label). Tony's additional almanac became his better seller.
Jesse Belvin, addition top academy acquaintance, alien him to Bumps Blackwell at Specialty Records in 1955. "Night Owl was a appellation my aunt had accustomed me because I was consistently blockage out backward at night. “I angry that byword into a little song and recorded “Night Owl"/"I" For Specialty Records on July 4, 1955 at Master Recorders in Hollywood. The Chimes singing abaft me, while they billed on the almanac as The Champs. The Chimes backed everybody on Specialty. They were Charles Jackson, David Cobb, Pookie Wooten and John Talbert" Said Allen. Because of a amiss printed characterization for that almanac at the acute plant. Record Deejays anticipation they were arena "I" (the advised A-side), but heard "Night Owl" instead and admired it. Although it did not blueprint nationally, "Night Owl" was a big West Coast hit, abundant to assure his bounded immortality. Another aberration was the announcement on the label, which apprehend "Tony Allen with the Champs". This had annihilation to do with the "Tequila" group, which did not even abide yet at the time. It should accept apprehend "Tony Allen with the Chimes".
Allen's additional Specialty single, "Check Yourself Baby"/"Especially" was beneath successful. Allen than went on the alley with abounding of Specialty's top acts, including Little Richard, Larry Williams and Lloyd Price. After Specialty, Allen recorded for too abounding labels to mention. From 1957-58 Tony recorded some accomplished rockers, with accessory by top affair musicians like Rene Hall, Plas Johnson and Earl Palmer. "Holy Smoke Baby" and "Now You Tell Me" (the closing accustomed to the Cupids) on Aladdin, "Strange Talk" and ") on Dot. For some acumen Rockin' Shoes" and "Skinny Minnie" on Imperial relegated to B-side status. Later releases on Jamie, Kent, Original Sound, and Bethlehem were not up to the aforementioned standard. Allen had an LP absolution in 1961 on the account characterization Crown, blue-blooded "Rock 'n' Roll with Tony Allen". Today Tony is still assuming at assorted age-old awakening shows in Los Angeles.
On April 19 2009, Tony Allen will accomplish on Carnival cruise curve newest and a lot of avant-garde address in the apple the Splendor. Sailing from Los Angeles to the Mexican Riviera on a 7-day cruise. There has never been a Doo Wop accident this amazing on the West Coast in over fifty years.
Memory Lane Concert Cruises is agreeable affair cruise abettor alms world-class concerts of assuming artists in an arrangement of music styles aboard affluence liners.
Contact:
Grant Williams
Memory Lane Concert Cruises, LLC
Los Angeles, CA
(800) 795-1008
grant@cognifast.com http://www.mlccruises.com
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