Lloyd Glenn
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Lloyd Glenn was an American rhythm and blues pianist, bandleader, and arranger born as Lloyd Colquitt Glenn on November 21, 1909, in San Antonio. He achieved professional recognition for a musical career characterized by West Coast blues and for being a pioneer of that style. Glenn achieved professional recognition for a career that began in the late 1920s playing with jazz bands and recording with Don Albert's Orchestra in 1936. He achieved professional recognition for moving to California in 1941 and joining the Walter Johnson trio in 1944. Glenn achieved professional recognition for accompanying the musician T-Bone Walker on the hit song âCall It Stormy Mondayâ (1947). His recording career included serving as an A&R representative for the label Swing Time Records in 1949 and recording the song âEvery Day I Have the Bluesâ and the song âBlue Shadowsâ (1949) with the musician Lowell Fulson. The latter recording reached Number 1 on the R&B chart. Glenn achieved professional recognition for the single âOld Time Shuffle Bluesâ (1950) reaching number 3 on the Billboard R&B chart and the single âChica Booâ (1951) reaching Number 1. His discography included producing and performing on the studio recording My Kind of Blues (1960) by the musician B.B. King. Glenn died on May 23, 1985, in Los Angeles.
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- Yancey Special
- After Hours
- Alberta
- Blues Hangover
- Everyday I Have the Blues by Lloyd Glenn
- Century Room
- Charlie Henry
- Chica Boo
- Congo Rhumba
- Old Time Shuffle
- After Hours by Lloyd Glenn
- Southbound Special
- Blue Ivories
- Good Times Back Home
- Honky Tonk Train
- Sunrise
- Tiddly-Winks (Tiddley-Winks)
- I Can't Stay Here
- Glenn's Glide
- Footloose
- I'm So Blue
- Still Waters
- It's You I'm Thinking Of
- Nite-Flite
