Buster Brown

Whooping blues harpists nearing age 50 with number 1 R&B hits with their credit had been predictably scarce in 1959. However, that’s the content predicament Buster Dark brown discovered himself in when his infectious “Fannie Mae” paced the graphs. Even more incredibly, the driving quantity made severe inroads around the pop airwaves aswell. The Georgian, whose harp design was clearly affected by Sonny Terry, experienced never made a specialist recording (there is a 1943 Library of Congress program that laid unissued at that time) before Open fire Records manager Bobby Robinson brought the brief, stockily built Dark brown into a NY studio room in June of 1959 to polish “Fannie Mae.” Brown’s reign as an improbable celebrity was short-lived. He handled minor follow-up strikes burning with a fairly ragged 1960 revival of Louis Jordan’s “Is usually You Is usually or Is usually You Ain’t My Baby” and his 1962 farewell bow, the effervescent rocker “Sugars Babe.” A following 1964 visit Chicago’s Checker Information created a glistening upgrade of the aged blues “Crawlin’ Kingsnake” that sank with out a trace.