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Other articles where Lucky Millinder is discussed: rhythm and blues: …employees of bandleaders such as Lucky Millinder (for whose band Harris sang) or Count Basie (whose vocalists included Turner and Jimmy Witherspoon). The small groups usually consisted of five to seven pieces and counted on individual musicians to take turns in the limelight. Thus, for instance, in Milton’s group, Milton…
Top tracks. 01. Who Said Shorty Wasn't Coming Back. Lucky Millinder. Top 75 Classics - The Very Best of Lucky Millinder. 02:40. 02. Shorty's Got to Go (Remastered) Lucky Millinder.
Lucky Millinder discography and songs: Music profile for Lucky Millinder, born 8 August 1910. Genres: Swing, Jump Blues, Vocal Jazz. Albums include Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well / Shipyard Social Function, I Want a Tall Skinny Papa / Shout, Sister, Shout!, and Risqué Rhythm: Nasty '50s R&B.
Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well? (DeLange-Brooks) by Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra, vocal by Wynonie “Mr. Blues” Harris and CongregationTHE 1945 HITS ARC...
Lucius Millinder was born in Anniston AL in 1900, and his family moved to Chicago when he was a child. His interest in music and his engaging manner led him to several jobs as MC on the club scene, and ‘Lucky’ took over direction of the Mills Blue Rhythm Band in 1934. He worked with Bill Doggett’s band in 1938 and formed The Lucky ...
Lucky Millinder. Lucius Venable " Lucky " Millinder (August 8, 1910 – September 28, 1966) was an American swing and rhythm-and-blues bandleader. Although he could not read or write music, did not play an instrument and rarely sang, his showmanship and musical taste made his bands successful. His group was said to have been the greatest big ...
Lucky Millinder was essentially a frontman, an occasional singer who conducted several impressive big bands. Millinder grew up in Chicago, worked as a dancer, and became a bandleader in 1931, using his original name of Lucius Venable, which he soon changed.
