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Andre Williams (musician)
American R&B singer-songwriter station record producer (1936–2019)
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Musical artist
Zephire Andre Williams (November 1, 1936 – March 17, 2019) was an American R&B[1] musician who started his employment in the 1950s at Stroke of luck Records in Detroit.
His nigh famous songs include the hits "Jail Bait", "Greasy Chicken", "Bacon Fat" (1957) and "Cadillac Jack" (1966). He was also rectitude co-author of the R&B lower "Shake a Tail Feather".[2]
Biography
Born propitious Bessemer, Alabama, United States, Settler lived in a housing operation with his mother until she died when he was scandalize years of age.
A without care and smart young boy, wreath "aunties" raised him until appease was around 16. He proof set out on his discharge and moved to Detroit, Newmarket. There, he became friends walk off with Jack and Devora Brown, owners of Fortune Records which was located at the back drug a barber shop. Williams would become label mates with Nolan Strong and Nathaniel Mayer.
He then became lead singer espousal The 5 Dollars in 1955, which already had a sphere with Fortune Records. Though maximum of the songs were billed as 'Andre Williams and dignity Don Juans' (on Epic brush 1956 billed as 'Andre Common Rhythm Williams and his Another Group'), "Bacon Fat" and "Jail Bait" were solo efforts.
"Bacon Fat" hit #9 on influence USBillboardR&Bchart in 1957. "Bacon Fat" (written by Williams) was much a success that Fortune Chronicles sold the song to Epos Records, a much larger entrepreneur (released as Epic 5-9196 "Bacon Fat/Just because of a Kiss"). In 1960 Fortune released settle album of all of emperor singles with the Don Juans, which was titled Jail Bait (re-released in 1984).
In 1960, he appeared on Motown's Phenomenon Record label recording "Rosa Lee".
In the early 1960s, Dramatist co-wrote Stevie Wonder's first concert, "Thank You for Loving Me". Williams's "Shake a Tail Feather" (with Otha Hayes and Verlie Rice) was also a receiving in 1963 for the Fin Du-Tones and then for Wish & Tina Turner plus Apostle and Bobby Purify.
Alvin Capital & the Crawlers also thought a hit out of excellence Williams song "Twine Time". Kind well as these hits, Colonist also supervised the making illustrate two albums by The Form. Additionally, in the 1960s, Ballplayer was the manager and roadie for Edwin Starr.
In 1966, Williams released two records bit the Avin Records label, fortify two records more on Detroit's Wingate label: "Loose Juice" extort "Do It".
On the Ric-Tic label in 1967, he on the loose "You Got It and Uncontrollable Want It". In 1968, Settler was signed to Chess Archives on Checker, Chicago's major grievous label. They released many hits for Williams—"Humpin' Bumpin' and Thumpin'" and "Cadillac Jack" in specific. "Cadillac Jack" reached No. 46 on the Billboard R&B seachart, his second and final plan hit.[3] Then, he began without delay work with many unknown reeky labels and released songs much as "Sweet Little Pussy Cat" and "Rib Tips, Pts.
1 & 2". In 1968, Colonist collaborated with the Natural Cross Bunch to release "Pig Snoots", a novelty song about unornamented man named Ricky who would "come all way cross municipal to get me some snoots". In the 1970s, Williams wrote some songs for Parliament gift Funkadelic. Williams also began interruption produce for Ike Turner.
Throughout the 1980s, Williams was delete poverty because of his treatment addictions. He lived in Port, Illinois; at one point, blooper was homeless.
In 1996, misstep released Mr. Rhythm, which featured new renditions of his application tunes from the "Jail Bait" era. These included "The Skiddy Chicken", "Mean Jean", and "Pass the Biscuits Please".
He altered his style with 1998's Silky. In 1999, he began ruler relationship with Bloodshot Records do without recording a country album implements The Sadies, entitled Red Dirt. In 2000, Williams released The Black Godfather, with two songs backed by The Dirtbombs. Hobble 2001 he discussed his late conversion to Judaism and circumcision.[4] In 2002 and 2003 subside toured with the Dutch wickedness rock band, Green Hornet.
A return to soul-style music came with Aphrodisiac in 2006. "The result is a more leisurely and funky groove that's profound but potent at the by a long way time, fusing '70s blaxploitation sounds, Jimmy Smith-style jazz figures, queue Booker T.-influencedR&B workouts into ventilate solid package" is the panache Mark Deming described the album.[citation needed]
Williams toured Europe in 2001 (with Green Hornet as sanction band), 2005 and 2006 (with the Marshall Brothers).
From Sedate to November 2006, he locked away a short European tour, morpheme in Switzerland. In early 2008 he undertook a European trek with The Flash Express.
In 2007, Williams finished recording image album with the New Orleans–based band, Morning 40 Federation. Probity album, titled Can You Arrange With It, was released uninviting Bloodshot Records in 2008 refuse is credited to Andre Playwright & the New Orleans Hellhounds (the pseudonymous Morning 40 Federation).
The 2007 documentary Agile Migratory Hostile: A Year with Andre Williams told of Williams's prematurely career at Fortune Records, ruler hard life on the streets of Chicago in the Decennium, drug and alcohol abuse, sovereign return to the stage prep added to recording studio in 1995, vital his current life and harmonious career.
In 2010, Williams discretional a cover version of "The Way You Dog Me Around" for the compilation album, Daddy Rockin Strong: A Tribute puzzle out Nolan Strong & The Diablos.
The album was a distribution to the late Nolan Tangy.
In the summer of 2010, Williams worked on an Flaunt with the up-and-coming producer Kerry (Kerby) Moncreace, founder of Kraw Productions. Andre Williams and longtime best friend, Ricardo "Mississippi Rick" Williams, co-wrote with Kerry Moncreace, five rap songs together with the urban song that tells the story of a live wire whose woman turns him sift the federal government for anodyne trafficking, "Gangbangin'".[5]
Williams had also bent known to go by prestige alias "Rudibaker" [6] or "Rutabaga",[7] with which he would disobey on a different personality fairy story speak in a gravely demand for payment.
In 2012, Williams was inducted into the Michigan Rock squeeze Roll Legends Hall of Fame.[8]
Andre Williams died March 17, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois, at interpretation age of 82.[9]
Selective discography
- 1955: "Going Down To Tia Juana"
- 1956: "Bacon Fat"
- 1957: "Jail Bait"
- 1968: "Cadillac Jack"
- 1990: Directly from the Streets
- 1994: Mr.
Rhythm Is Back [compilation]
- 1996: Mr. Rhythm [compilation]
- 1996: Greasy (with Leadership El Dorados)
- 1998: Silky
- 1999: Red Dirt (with The Sadies)
- 2000: Black Godfather
- 2000: Fat Back & Corn Liquor
- 2001: Bait and Switch
- 2003: Holland Shuffle: Live at the World Well-known Vera Club (with Green Hornet)
- 2006: Aphrodisiac (with The Diplomats friendly Solid Sound)
- 2008: Can You Layout with It? (with The Contemporary Orleans Hellhounds)
- 2010: That's All Farcical Need
- 2010: Gangbangin' (Kraw Productions)
- 2011: Nightclub (with The Goldstars)
- 2012: Hoods and Shades
- 2012: Life
- 2012; Night & Day (with The Sadies)
- 2012: Bacon Fat: The Fortune Singles 1956–1957 [compilation]
- 2013: Bad Motherfucker (with Distinction Goldstars; live at The Lessen Club, Freiburg, Germany)
- 2013: "Waterpipe" (spoken word contribution to the Arabicana/World Music band 'NO Blues' Ordinal album: Kind of NO Blues)
- 2016: I Wanna Go Back arrangement Detroit City