Roy Brown

Roy Brown is a singer and pianist of rythm' American blues . It was born the September 10th 1925 with La Nouvelle-Orléans and died the May 25th 1981 with Los Angeles.

He is in particular the author of one of traditional of the Rock' roll, " Good Rockin' Tonight ", begun again by Elvis Presley. Was this song the first Rock'n'roll? …

Biography

Roy Brown grows with New-Orleans (Louisiana). Child, it sings with the church. He settles in Los Angeles in 1942, after the death of his mother. After a fallen through career of Boxing ur professional, it gains competitions of song amateur. It then decides to turn over in its birthplace to try its chance in the cabarets, where it sings with the manner of Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra. But, as it is black, it is not able to be made accept in this style: it should sing Blues. It does it but with the sophistication of the crooners and the melody direction of the Gospel: it will be called the “Jump blues” it is already (almost) rock' roll. It records for the discs Of Luxury in 1947 its traditional " Good Rockin' Tonight ". It reaches the Signal-20 with charter R&B. '' Shouter '' Wynonie Harris, with which Brown had the previous year offered her song and that she had refused, records Good Rockin' Tonight for the King discs, and will reach the 1st position with charter R&B. He sees his career culminating in 1950, after which the decline is fast, in spite of a great talent of type-setter, full with irony and delicacy. Contrary to his/her friends Big Joe Turner or Conceited Domino, them so resulting from the blues, it does not negotiate the turn of the rock' roll and does not disappear quickly from circulation. In 1970 it makes an appearance noticed with the Festival of Montreux with Johnny Otis, alas without a future. He dies of an heart attack in 1981, the year when he is introduced with the Hall off Famed of.

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