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"Honky Tonk" is an instrumental written by Billy Butler, Bill Doggett, Clifford Scott, and Shep Shepherd. Doggett recorded it as a two-part single in 1956. [ 2 ] It became Doggett's signature piece and a standard recorded by many other performers.
Honky Tonk (Part 1)" (Bill Doggett, Billy Butler, Clifford Scott, Shep Shepherd) – 3:04 "Honky Tonk (Part 2)" (Doggett, Butler, Scott, Shepherd) – 2:36 "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 2:54 "Afternoon Jump" (B. Red Ellis) – 2:51 "Peacock Alley" (Butler) – 2:36 "Big Boy" (Bill Jennings) – 3:08
The Chronological Bill Doggett 1954 Classics (Blues & Rhythm Series) 5175 (2006) Honky Tonk Popcorn Beat Goes Public/BGP CDBGPD-249 (2012) reissue of King 1078 plus 5 bonus tracks. Everybody Dance The Honky Tonk/Doggett Beat For Dancing Feet Soul Jam 806174 (2019) 2LP-on-1CD
The twelve-bar blues instrumental "Honky Tonk" by the Bill Doggett Combo, with a sinuous saxophone line and driving, slow beat, was an early rock and roll hit. New Orleans native Fats Domino was another honky-tonk piano man, whose "Blueberry Hill" and "Walkin' to New Orleans" were hits on the popular music charts.
In 1955 he began working with Bill Doggett, and was a prominent soloist on many of Doggett's most famous recordings, including "Honky Tonk". He also recorded as a leader in the late 1950s and early 1960s and worked as a session musician for rock, pop, and R&B recordings.
The Many Moods of Bill Doggett: Bill Doggett: 779 Smokey Smothers Sings the Backporch Blues: Smokey Smothers: 780 Good, Good, Twistin' James Brown and His Famous Flames also released as Shout and Shimmy and Excitement "Mr. Dynamite" 781 The Twisting Fools: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters 782 Golden Harvest Volume 3: Jimmy Osborne: 783 Bob ...
Bill Doggett "Honky Tonk, Parts 1 & 2" King Records (United States) 1956 Instrumental Skip James "Devil Got My Woman" Paramount Records: 1931 Big Mama Thornton "Hound Dog" Peacock Records: 1952 Popularized by Elvis Presley in 1956 2007 Son House "Death Letter" Columbia Records: 1965 Freddie King "Hide Away" Federal Records: 1961 Electric guitar ...
Chord Change (Moonmadness) Lunar Sea ... Bill Doggett. Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2)" (1956) No. 2 US [132] No. 1 R&B [133]