Interview with Roy Brown

Accession No.: 
BR2-026-1

Roy Brown:

00:40 - Early life and musical influences - Born in New Orleans, Moving to Eunice
02:30 - His first time performing "rhythmic" music
04:40 - Roy's mother's death
5:00 - Moving to LA and becoming a boxer
06:00 - Singing amateur contests in his younger days (1946)
07:15 - Working in the cane fields - Spiritual songs that were sung
09:40 - Being rejected by the service due to flat feet, starting to sing in clubs
11:15 - Learning his first blues songs
12:00 - Roy's backing group
13:45 - Moving from Shreveport to Galveston - Playing with Joe Coleman's group - Club Grenada
15:15 - Good Rockin' Tonight
17:00 - Other Members - Clarence Ward, Rip Sewall, Joel Harrison, A.D. Adams, Joe Woods
18:20 - Wynonna Harris, Cecil Gant - Writing "Good Rockin' Tonight"
21:15 - Jules Brawn - Owner of Deluxe Records coming to hear the song, recording it for Savoy Records
23:30 - Writing and recording "Ms. Fanny Brown," "Long About Midnight," "Lollipop Mama"
23:55 - Recording issues - Microphone placement. Singing into the piano microphone
26:20 - Being bootlegged by Goldstar Records
27:45 - Watching Cecil Gant perform
30:00 - Dave Bartholemew "Let the Four Winds Blow"
31:00 - Going on the road
32:50 - Leroy Rankings
34:30 - Buying a limo and a station wagon for his band to travel in
36:00 - Performance Royalties - Not owning any rights to his songs
40:45 - Leaving music and working as a salesman
44:30 - Recording at J&M and Cosimo's

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Broven
Subject: 
Louisiana; Music; Swamp Pop, R&B, Rhythm and Blues
Creator: 
John Broven
Recording date: 
Sunday, June 22, 1975
Coverage Spatial: 
Los Angeles, CA
Publisher: 
John Broven
Rights Usage: 
All rights reserved
Language: 
English
Meta Information
Duration: 
45:49
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Original Format: 
Audio--Cassette--90
Digital Format: 
Audio
Bit Depth: 
16 bit
Sampling Rate: 
44.1k
Storage Location: 
Returned to donor