15-415: " Hands Off " is a 1955 song written and recorded by Jay McShann . The single, on the Vee-Jay label, was the most successful Jay McShann release on the Billboard R&B chart . "Hands Off", with vocals performed by Priscilla Bowman , was number one on the R&B best seller chart for three weeks. The single is notable because this was the last single to hit number one on the R&B chart without making
30-448: A hit in 1949 with " Ain't Nobody's Business ". As well as writing much material, Witherspoon continued recording with McShann's band, which also featured Ben Webster . McShann had a modern rhythm and blues hit with " Hands Off ", featuring a vocal by Priscilla Bowman , in 1955. In the late 1960s, McShann often performed as a singer as well as a pianist, often with violinist Claude Williams . He continued recording and touring through
45-647: A circuit up through Oklahoma City . At the time he'd make six to seven dollars for a night of playing. He commented that at this time people would work the whole week for about five or six dollars. At a concert in Muskogee he heard Joe Venuti play, and this inspired Williams to start playing jazz violin. He went to Kansas City, Missouri in 1927 and became part of the Twelve Clouds of Joy, led by trumpeter Terrence Holder and then Andy Kirk , with Mary Lou Williams on piano. He recorded with them for Brunswick Records
60-516: A gig in Nebraska with a car full of musicians, the driver of the car accidentally hit a chicken. According to McShann, Parker requested the driver turn around so he could get the bird, and sat with it in the backseat of the car all the way to Lincoln. Once they arrived he asked the keeper of the home they were staying in to cook it up for him. McShann died on December 7, 2006, in Kansas City, Missouri at
75-606: The Billboard pop charts until 1976. For the next twenty-one years, all singles which made the top spot on the Billboard R&;B chart would make the pop charts. Preston Foster reworked "Hands Off" to create the 1956 song " Got My Mojo Working " popularised by Muddy Waters . This 1950s R&B / soul music song-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jay McShann James Columbus " Jay " McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006)
90-577: The 1970s to record McShann's album Man From Muskogee . Williams performed at Bill's Le Gourmet in Wichita, Kansas from 1972-1977. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 1989. That year he performed in a tour called "Masters of the Folk Violin" and in the "Broadway Show Black and Blue." In the former, the finale featured a duet with Williams Krauss and Alison Krauss . At the time Alison
105-640: The 1990s. Well into his 80s, McShann still performed occasionally, particularly in the Kansas City area and Toronto , Ontario, where he made his last recording, "Hootie Blues", in February 2001, after a recording career of 61 years. In 1979, he appeared prominently in The Last of the Blue Devils , a documentary film about Kansas City jazz . One of McShann's favorite stories to tell was how band member and friend Charlie Parker got his nickname "Bird". During their drive to
120-481: The age of 90. With Clarence Gatemouth Brown With others Claude Williams (musician) Claude "Fiddler" Williams (February 22, 1908 – April 25, 2004) was an American jazz violinist and guitarist who recorded and performed into his 90s. He was the first guitarist to record with Count Basie and the first musician to be inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. Claude Gabriel Williams
135-562: The first as the Jay McShann Orchestra on August 9, 1940. The band played both swing and blues numbers, but played blues on most of its records; its most popular recording was "Confessin' the Blues" with Walter Brown on vocals. The group disbanded when McShann was drafted into the Army in 1944. After his return two years later, he found that small groups were now taking the place of big-bands in
150-541: The following year. After leaving Kirk, he played in Chicago in a band with Nat King Cole and his brother Eddie Cole and then became the first guitarist to record with Count Basie . He spent most of his life in Kansas City. In the 1950s, he played with Eddie Vinson , Hank Jones , and another musician from Muskogee, pianist Jay McShann . For the next twenty years he led his own groups but did not record. Nearly thirty years since his last recording, he reunited with McShann in
165-665: The jazz scene. McShann told the Associated Press in 2003: "You'd hear some cat play, and somebody would say, 'This cat, he sounds like he's from Kansas City.' It was Kansas City Style. They knew it on the East Coast. They knew it on the West Coast. They knew it up North, and they knew it down South." After World War II McShann began to lead small groups featuring the blues shouter Jimmy Witherspoon. Witherspoon began to record with McShann in 1945 and, fronting McShann's band, he had
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#1733092986695180-718: The radio. He was also heavily influenced by late-night broadcasts of pianist Earl Hines from Chicago's Grand Terrace Cafe : "When 'Fatha' ( Hines ) went off the air, I went to bed". He began working as a professional musician in 1931 at the age of 15, performing around Tulsa, Oklahoma , and neighboring Arkansas. McShann moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1936, and set up his own big band which variously featured Charlie Parker (1937–42), Al Hibbler , Ben Webster , Paul Quinichette , Bernard Anderson , Gene Ramey , Jimmy Coe , Gus Johnson (1938–43), Harold "Doc" West , Earl Coleman , Walter Brown , and Jimmy Witherspoon , among others. His first recordings were all with Charlie Parker,
195-515: Was a 16-year-old country fiddler and singer. In the 1990s, Williams performed at Carnegie Hall , Lincoln Center, and at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. He was profiled on the TV program CBS News Sunday Morning and became the first person to be inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame . He was a recipient of a 1998 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for
210-410: Was an American jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, and bandleader. He led bands in Kansas City, Missouri, that included Charlie Parker , Bernard Anderson , Walter Brown , and Ben Webster . McShann was born in Muskogee , Oklahoma, and was nicknamed Hootie. During his youth he taught himself how to play the piano through observing his sister's piano lessons and trying to practicing tunes he heard off
225-420: Was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on February 22, 1908, the son of Lee J. Williams, a blacksmith, and Laura Williams, home maker. He was the youngest of six children. Talented from a young age, Williams could play multiple instruments in his brother-in-law's string band: banjo, cello, guitar, mandolin. Their early band played outside, in hotels, and at barbershops around their hometown of Muskogee, Oklahoma and on
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