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| | CMT.com : Hank Ballard : Biography |
 | | Ballard's music with the Midnighters couldn't have been more diametrically opposed in terms of subject matter: his lyrics were filled with raunchy double-entendres that left little to the imagination, pushing the envelope of what was considered acceptable in the '50s. | | | Ballard attempted to take his 1958 composition "The Twist" to Vee-Jay, which declined to release the version they recorded; King, Federal's parent label, issued it as the B-side of the Midnighters' R&B comeback ballad hit "Teardrops on Your Letter" in 1959. | | | Ballard's first recording with the group was 1953's "Get It," which hit the Top Ten on the R&B charts, but it was the following year's ribald "Work With Me Annie" that really broke the group (they changed their name to the Midnighters around this time, to avoid confusion with the Five Royales). |
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| | Hank Ballard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1959, Ballard's "The Twist" was released as a B-side for "Teardrops on Your Letter". | | | Thee Midnighters was a Southern California group of Chicano rockers. | | | The Royals' first major hit was "Work With Me Annie", a RandB hit that also sold well in mainstream markets, along with the answer song "Annie had a Baby". |
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| | Hank Ballard was naughty on recordings and on the stage. | | | Hank Ballard, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the composer of songs like “The Twist&; is dead. | | | Through Hank’s four shows that night, I reveled in the raw power of his music and the irreverence of his lyrics. |
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| | 45s.com - Hank Ballard - Recording Artist Information: Hank Ballard - 45 RPM Records -- Search for records, ... |
| | Ballard wrote and recorded "The Twist" with the Midnighters in 1958, but their record label relegated it to a B side, leaving it to Chubby Checker to take "The Twist" to Number One not once but two times, in 1960 and 1962. | | | Hank Ballard is chiefly remembered for recording a trilogy of risque RandB numbers: "Work With Me, Annie," "Annie Had a Baby" and "Annie's Aunt Fannie." Yet Ballard's contribution to rock and roll goes much deeper than that. | | | Hank Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. |
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| | Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Music CDs - Cheap Prices |
| | Dancin' And Twistin' - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters | | | EP Collection, The - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters | | | Home » Music CDs » Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Music CDs |
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| | Chicago Sun-Times: Rhythm and blues great Hank Ballard dies |
| | Ballard wrote and recorded "The Twist." The song debuted as the B- side to Hank Ballard and the Midnighter's "Teardrops on Your Letter." The record went nowhere. | | | Contributing: AP Hank Ballard, who died Sunday, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. | | | Ballard charted 22 singles on the rhythm and blues charts. |
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| | BALLARD, Hank : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | Ballard's career faltered despite the patronage of James Brown, whose style he had influenced and with whose band he sometimes recorded; stayed with King until '69 ('How You Gonna Get Respect' by Hank Ballard and the Dapps made no. 15 RandB chart '68), then label-hopped (e.g. | | | BALLARD, Hank : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music | | | My biggest thrill is watching people dance to my music.' Anthologies on King and Rhino; Hank Ballard Live At The Palais on Charly UK was recorded at Hammersmith venue late '86; Naked In The Rain was on After Hours. |
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| | Guardian Hank Ballard |
| | That title showed that Ballard had not lost his penchant for novelty songs and, in 1974, he composed Let's Go Streaking, a song he was supposed to have recorded in the nude. | | | Ballard both wrote the song and sang it in a stentorian tenor, with what one critic called "molasses-in-the-mouth enunciation". | | | So close was this version to the original that Ballard mistook it for his own record when he first heard it on the radio. |
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| | "Twist" Songwriter Ballard Dies - Mar 03, 2003 - E! Online News |
| | Ballard is best known to music buffs as the man who, in 1958, wrote and recorded an uptempo 12-bar blues ditty called "The Twist," which was seemingly relegated to obscurity as the B-side of a gospel-tinged ballad called "Teardrops on Your Letter" he did with the Midnighters. | | | All told, Ballard and the Midnighters ended up landing 22 singles on the rhythm-and-blues charts during the '50s and '60s. | | | Ballard laid low during the '70s before resurfacing in the '80s with a new Midnighters lineup. |
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| | Hank Ballard epitomized King Records sound |
| | Ultimately, it's the music Ballard recorded at the King studios in Evanston that will be remembered. | | | Collins credits Ballard with giving him an education in the music business, not all of it good. | | | "Hank out front with those kind-of-racy-for-the-times lyrics (and) background vocals that began in gospel and ended in rock," he says. |
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| | Hank Ballard, singer and writer of 'The Twist,' dies |
| | Ballard's songs were sometimes banned from 1950s radio for their sexually suggestive lyrics. | | | In 1958, Ballard wrote and recorded "The Twist," but it was released on the "B" side of a record. | | | Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. |
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| | Although Hank did sing in a church choir, his major vocal inspiration during his formative years, he confessed in an interview, was none other than the "Singing Cowboy," Gene Autry, and one song in particular, his signature, "Back In The Saddle Again," captured his fancy. | | | According to some sources, Ballard was already leading a group called the Royals when he was recommended to the bespectacled, cigar chomping Syd Nathan of King records (based in Cincinnati, OH, at 1540 Brewster Ave.) and his Federal subsidiary run by the legendary producer, Ralph Bass. | | | Not being able to make the adjustment to disco music, which became all pervasive in the mid to late 70s, Hank Ballard closed out his recording career on the Le Joint label in 1979. |
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| | Hank Ballard: Wrote song that got people twisting |
| | "Hank Ballard was a wonderful man," said Detroit blues singer Alberta Adams, who knew Ballard in the 1950s. | | | The latest was resolved last month, when a federal appeals court ruled in favor of Ballard and several other artists as part of a $3-million suit against King Records, the Midnighters' label home. | | | With his band the Midnighters, his hits included uptempo singles such as "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" and "Finger Poppin' Time," which both made Billboard's top 10 in 1960. |
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| | HANK BALLARD MR RHYTHM KING 700 ORIG RandB SOUL LP ** | | | HANK BALLARD JUMPIN KING 793 ORIG RandB SOUL LP ** | | | Hank Ballard and The Midnighters 20 Original Hits CD |
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| | Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Lyrics |
| | View more Hank Ballard & The Midnighters lyrics | | | Submit lyrics for Hank Ballard & The Midnighters | | | Home » H » Hank Ballard & The Midnighters |
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| | eastbayexpress.com Planet Clair Twistin' in His Grave 2003-03-12 |
| | Hank loved novelty songs, and he even recorded "Let's Go Streaking" in '74, reportedly with no drawers on. | | | With Ballard gone, a handful of the old '50s guys remain, only to hobble onstage in concerts that KQED airs during pledge drives, but the Midnighters collection on Rhino is highly recommended for anyone who wants to re-experience Ballard and his "Sexy Ways." | | | One writer described Ballard's voice as sounding like the singer had a throatful of molasses. |
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| | CBS News Sunday Passage: Hank Ballard March 7, 2003 16:57:31 |
| | Ballard started singing in the early 1950s with a group called the Royals (soon changed to the Midnighters). | | | But it's the song Ballard wrote four years later that everyone remembers. | | | Their song, "Work With Me Annie," sold a million records in 1954. |
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| | Tower Records - Hank Ballard & His Midnighters - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters |
| | Tower Records - Hank Ballard & His Midnighters - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters | | | HANK BALLARD AND THE MIDNIGHTERS' 12 tracks present a solid, representative sample of the many things Ballard did well: R&B ballads ("In the Doorway Crying"), blues shuffles ("Open Up the Back Door"), New Orleans-style rock ("Stay By My Side"), and proto doo wop ("Partners For Life"). | | | The mid-'50s were fertile years for American rhythm and blues, producing some of the grittiest, most soulful recordings ever made. |
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| | RollingStone.com: Hank Ballard : "Twist" Writer Ballard Dies : News |
| | Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. | | | Legendary RandB singer and songwriter Hank Ballard died Sunday at his Los Angeles home after suffering from throat cancer; according to birth records, which differ from his official biographical information, he was seventy-five. | | | Still, he was best known for writing "The Twist," which he recorded and released in 1958, a year before Chubby Checker's version became a hit and launched a dance craze. |
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| | Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Finger Poppin Time Lyrics | | | Song Lyrics :: Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Lyrics | | | Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Tabs and Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Sheet Music coming soon. |
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| | Hank Ballard -- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee |
| | Ballard is remembered for recording a trilogy of risqué RandB tunes: "Work With Me, Annie," "Annie Had a Baby" and "Annie's Aunt Fannie." By the early 1960s, he had charted twenty-two singles on the RandB chart. | | | Checker's version went to the top of the charts in both 1960 and 1962. | | | Hank Ballard -- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee |
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| | Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Rhythm & Blues - Randy's Rodeo |
| | Lucky for Hank and company, they had laurels upon which to rest, and in years to come rock critics would speak of the Midnighters in reverential tones while Chubby Checker thanklessly toured the clubs of Hoboken. | | | The Midnighters initial claim to fame was a string of bawdy songs featuring one Annie and her fondness for "work" (a barely disguised sexual euphemism). | | | Rhino's Sexy Ways: The Best Of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters is your best bet. |
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Sexy Ways: The Best of Hank Ballard & the Midnighters |
| | Hank Ballard's most famous song is probably The Twist which he wrote and recorded but never got properly famous for. | | | While much black music had clear but subtle references to sex, Hank's "Work With Me Annie" and "Annie Had a Baby" were more blatant and were rarely played on the radio They had a number of more conventional hits back to back in the early 60s but faded after that. | | | This is a dream album for anyone who wants to listen to one of early rock's most important figures. |
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| | Hank Ballard And The Midnighters Freak Your Boom Boom (12") DiscoMusic.com |
| | Hank Ballard is rightly elected into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. | | | Disco Music Home > Disco Records A-Z Index > Disco Records B > Hank Ballard And The Midnighters | | | As a music fan, record collector or DJ we would like to know what YOU think of this record. |
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| | From Love To Tears by Hank Ballard CD |
| | Hank Ballard & The Midnighters: Hank Ballard (vocals, hand claps); Freddie Holiday, Eugene Hudson, James Dorsey, Daryll (background vocals). | | | In a perfect world, all comeback albums would be this good. | | | FROM LOVE TO TEARS makes only one nod toward Ballard's peak years, the album's closing remake of "Let's Go Again (Where We Went Last Night)." Otherwise, FROM LOVE TO TEARS is an update of Ballard's sound. |
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| | Ballard, Hank -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Ballard's first record with them, “Get It,” made the top 10 on the RandB charts. | | | March 2, 2003, Los Angeles, Calif.), lit up the rhythm-and-blues (RandB) charts in the 1950s with a series of earthy blues-inspired songs and wrote the dance hit “The Twist.&; In 1953 Ballard was asked to step in as front man for a doo-wop band called the Royals. | | | Even before Berry Gordy, Jr., brought Detroit to musical prominence in the 1960s with Motown Records, the Motor City had been the site of important recordings by John Lee Hooker and the base for rhythm-and-blues performers Hank Ballard and Jackie Wilson. |
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| | NPR : We remember singer/ songwriter HANK BALLARD. |
| | Fresh Air from WHYY, March 4, 2003 · We remember singer/ songwriter HANK BALLARD. | | | He wrote and recorded the song Chubby Checker later made famous, “The Twist.” Ballard died Sunday after a bout with throat cancer. | | | NPR : We remember singer/ songwriter HANK BALLARD. |
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| | Seminal R&B Songwriter Hank Ballard Dies |
| | Hank Ballard, BMI songwriter and one of the originators of the fusion of rhythm and blues and rock and roll, died this week at his home in Los Angeles. | | | It wasn’t until the following year, however, that the song became a hit when it was released by Chubby Checker. | | | All marks indicated by the ® are registered trademarks of Broadcast Music, Inc. |
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| | OpenHere - Music, Bands and Artists, B, Ballard Hank and The Moonlighters |
| | This page has links to Hank Ballard and the Midnighters song clips. | | | Hank Ballard and The Midnighters @ Pool Party Records | | | OpenHere - Music, Bands and Artists, B, Ballard Hank and The Moonlighters |
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| | Hank Ballard and the Midnighters - The Very Best Of | | | All the following titles are the original recordings / hit versions you remember |
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| | Amazon.ca: Music: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters [Import] |
| | Amazon.ca: Music: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters [Import] | | | Look for albums like Hank Ballard and the Midnighters [Import] by subject: | | | Listen to Samples from Hank Ballard and the Midnighters [Import] |
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| | Oldies.com : Hank Ballard & The Midnighters |
| | View the Complete Album Songs List of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters | | | The Royals, who also included Henry Booth and Charles Sutton, had been recommended to King Records by Johnny Otis and had previously recorded "Every Beat Of My Heart", later an RandB hit for Gladys Knight And The Pips. | | | Very Best Of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters |
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| | NCBuy Weird News: Chubby Checker In A Twist Over Hank Ballard's Death - 2003-03-04 |
| | Ballard wrote and recorded "The Twist," which Checker turned into a two-time No. 1 hit in 1960 and 1962, and the singer admits that "If it wasn't for [Ballard], I wouldn't be here." | | | PHILADELPHIA (Wireless Flash) -- The death of blues legend Hank Ballard on Sunday (Mar. 2) has singer Chubby Checker twisted with emotion. | | | Weird News stories at the NCBuy Newsdesk, Copyright © Wireless Flash News Service. |
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| | Falleció Hank Ballard, el creador de “El Twist” |
| | El rock 'n' roll es bueno para el alma, para estar bien, para la psiquis, para todo tu ser. | | | “Si estás buscando juventud, estás buscando longevidad, sólo tomá una dosis de rock 'n' roll”, dijo Ballard. | | | Falleció Hank Ballard, el creador de “El Twist” |
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| | Keep The Coffee Coming: Finger Poppin' Time: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters |
| | Finger Poppin' Time: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters | | | Hank Ballard and The Midnighters made music history in September, 1960, when they became the first group to have three songs in the U.S. Hot 100 at the same time: "Finger Poppin' Time," "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" and "The Twist." | | | Keep The Coffee Coming: Finger Poppin' Time: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters |
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