Tag Archives: Clarence “Frogman”

With her lone hit “I UNDERSTAND (YOU DO NOT Love Me FORGET ABOUT),” singer Barbara George documented among New Orleans R&B’s definitive crossover smashes. Blessed Barbara Ann Smith within the Crescent City’s Ninth Ward on August 16, 1942, she started singing as a teenager in her Baptist cathedral choir and …

Dave Bartholomew has often been quoted to the result that Smiley Lewis was a “misfortune singer,” because he never sold a lot more than 100,000 copies of his Imperial singles. In retrospect, Lewis was a lucky guy in lots of respects — he liked stellar support from New Orleans’ ace …

Shirley Goodman and Leonard Lee, given birth to just ten times aside in 1936, scored 3 massive R&B strikes before each one of these were both twenty years aged: “Experience SO EXCELLENT,” “Allow Good Times Move,” and “PERSONALLY I THINK Great” were all compiled by the talented little couple. That …