Willie Headen

Though he never really had a considerable national hit, Willie Headen made some respectable R&B information within the mid- to past due ’50s in a little combo piano-based design, though that approach was getting somewhat out of fashion using the onset of rock and roll & move. Headen started his profession in gospel music and created his personal group to sing at churches in Austin, TX, later on becoming a member of the Kansas Town Gospel Performers, though he doesn’t show up on the early-’50s recordings. Shifting to LA in the first ’50s, he was operating like a shoeshine guy in the W community when he captured the eye of client Dootsie Williams, who loved just how Headen sang while he worked well. Williams authorized Headen to his label, Dootone (though Bumps Blackwell of Niche had also portrayed some curiosity), and Headen lower his debut 45 for Dootone in 1954. In regards to a dozen singles implemented in all of those other 1950s on Dootone and its own associated Authentic and Dooto brands, a few of them, oddly, released beneath the name Willie Hayden, and something beneath the name Clifford Chambers. Dootone also released an LP in 1960, however the vocalist still left the music business around that point, though he do do a handful of spirit singles for Kent in the past due ’60s.