Clarence "FROGMAN" HENRY - The Legendary Clarence Frogman Henry 1983

Clarence "FROGMAN" HENRY - The Legendary Clarence Frogman Henry 1983 (REPOST)
Label: Silvertown
1983 UK anthology LP on the Silvertown label

Blues

Clarence 'Frogman' Henry is a dynamic New Orleans-based Country-Blues star whose contemporary work has been little-known in the UK until now. Yet, millions of golden oldie fans and first-generation DJ's remember with affection and interest the sing-a- long singles in the early sixties But I Do, You Always Hurt The One You Love, Ain't Got No Home and others which put the Frogman at the top of the US and British charts, and sold over 12 million copies world-wide from 1959 to 1963.

Twenty years on, in his early forties, and having followed the "Sedaka trail" to record with top session men in Manchester, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry is set to reconstruct his British and European career in determined style. A new album, The Legendary Clarence 'Frogman' Henry (STLP 1001) was released on March 11th, backed by major record distribution company I.D.S., and a comprehensive nine-week live concert schedule as special guest on the Cannon & Ball tour has been confirmed. Radio and TV slots are presently being set, and a new single will be released shortly.

Clarence Henry's career spans twenty-five eventful years of pop music and is impossible to chronicle adequately in a paragraph. Discovered in 1957 by Leonard Chess of Chess Records, Frogman has remained an important but enigmatic figure in the R'n'B world. From early days recording and playing with Chuck Berry and Fats Domino, he became influenced by his friend and musical companion Sam Cooke, who was to die tragically in 1963. When the R'n'B boom led by British bands began emerging in 1964, Frogman Henry (then only 27 himself) was cast in the rather bewildering role of an original R'n'B "father-figure" to bands like The Rolling Stones and The Animals, who took New Orleans as their musical jumping-off point. In 1965 Frogman Henry appeared throughout the US as Special Guest on The Beatles' first coast-to-coast tour.

In the late Sixties and early Seventies, Clarence Henry continued with international touring, playing concerts in Australia, Canada, South America and the Far East. Musically, this period saw him shift into a country-influenced style, and he cut a series of albums in Texas for influential producer Huey Meaux. During the late Seventies, Frogman Henry returned to his home ground in Louisiana, recording with Allen Toussaint in New Orleans and he appeared regularly at R'n'B festivals, special events, revival concerts and Mardi Gras balls, whilst at the same time enjoying a ten-year residency on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, where the Frogman's nightly cabaret was accurately billed as the top tourist attraction on the strip. In 1982 he refused the inevitable offer to continue in order to earn a break for other projects. One of these was the chance to record in England, and his new album was made in September last year with producer, Geoff Gill, in Manchester.
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01.You Always Hurt The One You Love
02.When A Man Loves A Woman
03.Take It On Home
04.The In Crowd
05.For Your Love
06.That´s Enough
07.I Want You; I Need You; I Love You
08.Ain´t No Pleasin´ You
09.Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
10.Just A Matter Of Time
11.I Don´t Know Why
12.You Are So Beautiful
13.Messin´ Around
14.But I Do
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