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Cecil Gant Cecil's Boogie
Released: 1976 CD Released : 1999 Label: Jazz Colours Format : Mp3@320  Cecil Gant came out of one afternoon in 1944 in downtown Los Angeles. He was a largely unknown singer-pianist in the wartime army when the opportunity came for him to perform at a war bond rally. He made a favorable impression, enough so that he had a chance to put some tunes on record. A recording of his tune "I Wonder" was released on the small independent Gilt Edge label. He was billed as Pvt. Cecil Gant, The "GI Sing Station". What happened next was unforeseen and unprecedented. The record sold, and sold, and sold-in huge quantities. The numbers will never be known but by some estimates the amount may have reached well over a million. The story of meeting the demand is the stuff of legends. It required clandestine record pressing plants in residential neighborhoods, all manner of secret deals for the supply of shellac (a must for the production of 78 rpm records) which was subject to severe wartime restrictions, and the itinerant record sellers up and down the west coast operating from trunks of cars and roadside stands He tried again and again to duplicate the success of I Wonder with a string of releases for Gilt Edge. Having no luck he returned to his home town of Nashville for a series of records for Bullet, again with no success. He got one more shot with a major this time- Decca for some dates in New York. Although he was on Gunter Lee Carr's historic cut of "We're Gonna Rock" he came up empty again. He finally succumbed to a combination of depression and the bottle and died in 1951 just 7 years after the release of "I Wonder".  Tracklist : 01. Hit That Jive Jack (2:21) 02. Blues In L.A. (2:55) 03. I Gotta Gal (3:34) 04. Sloppy Joe'S (2:49) 05. Cecil's Boogie (3:00) 06. Time Will Tell (2:54) 07. My Little Baby (3:03) 08. Long Distance Call (2:39) 09. Am I To Blame (2:57) 10. Boogie Blues (2:18 ) 11. That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch (2:30) 12. What's On Your Worried Mind (2:38 ) Related Torrents
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