Bobby Graham is a Pisces and was born in The Year of the Dragon Life. Bobby Graham was born in London on Monday, March 11, 1940 (Silent Generation generation). He is 80 years old and is a Pisces. Bobby Graham (11 March 1940 14 September 2009) was an English session drummer, composer, arranger and record producer. Here is a little bit of a recent ray davies interview where he talks about bobby graham and his work with the kinks. I have added some of bobby's and my pers.
by Robert Wilkinson
Explore Bobby Graham's biography, personal life, family and real age. Discover the real story, facts, and details of Bobby Graham.
Source filmmaker apk android. Our Monday night show features short sets from two obscure talents who have been heard by millions!
Don Raye (born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., March 16, 1909 – January 29, 1985) was a songwriter and vaudevillian and songwriter. His biggest tunes were major hits for The Andrews Sisters, including 'Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar', 'The House of Blue Lights', 'Just for a Thrill' and 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.' He also wrote '(That Place) Down the Road a Piece,' a boogie woogie which became a rock and roll standard recorded by Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Stones, Foghat, and others.
Dig these boogie woogie classics!
From 1946, the original by Freddie Slack and Ella Mae Morse! “House of Blue Lights”
Merrill Moore made it a swing hit in 1952! “House of Blue Lights”
Here’s Chuck’s version of “House of Blue Lights”
Jerry Lee just loves to boogie! “House of Blue Lights”
Live on ACL, Asleep at the Wheel gives us their Texas swing version of “House of Blue Lights”
Prosoft hear serial online. Live at the Capitol Theater in 1984, Thorogood checks in with his rocking version of “House of Blue Lights”
The Piano Man did a live vamped-up version at MSG in 2019! “House of Blue Lights.”
Our final version is one of my favorites, courtesy of the Flamin’ Groovies! “House of Blue Lights”
From 78 years ago, a great war video, very live and real time film clip, where the Andrews Sisters deliver a rousing version of “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
A great video of the early Stones cranking out Don’s “Down The Road Apiece”Chuck’s version! “Down The Road Apiece”
Another great version by Jerry Lee! “Down The Road Apiece”
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We’ll close with another Don wrote, sung by Bob Mitchum, but never used in the movie. “The Ballad of Thunder Road” (no, this is not the Bruce Springsteen classic!)
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We now celebrate the birthday of Bobby Graham (11 March 1940 – 14 September 2009) was an English session drummer, composer, arranger and record producer. From wiki, “Shel Talmy, who produced The Kinks, David Bowie and The Who, described Graham as 'the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced.'
Graham played on 13 number one singles, including those by The Dave Clark Five, Englebert Humperdinck, Peter and Gordon, Jackie Trent, The Kinks, Tom Jones and Dusty Springfield, and appeared on a total of 40 UK top five hits (10 number two hits; 4 number 3 hits; 6 number 4 hits; 7 number five hits; 107 top 50 hits - 1155 days in the charts). In a discography that counts approximately 15,000 titles, he played on hits by John Barry, Shirley Bassey, Joe Cocker, Billy Fury, Herman's Hermits, Benny Hill, Rod Stewart, Dave Berry, Joe Brown and The Bruvvers, Chubby Checker, Petula Clark, Brenda Lee, Lulu, Brian Poole & The Tremeloes, The Pretty Things, PJ Proby, Van Morrison, Them, The Walker Brothers, and Marianne Faithfull.
He was part of the UK equivalent to the Wrecking Crew in Los Angeles, and played on some of the biggest hits of the 60s! For your enjoyment, the drumming of Bobby Graham!
He did these for the Kinks! He was on their first monster hit, 'You Really Got Me,' as well as their second 'All Day And All Of The Night' and third 'Tired of Waiting'
Bobby Graham British Session Drummer
He was pounding on this hit for the Animals! “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”
Rod Stewart had him on “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” and he played on Them’s “Baby Please Don’t Go” and “Gloria” (with Jimmy Page on guitar!)
He played on these three monster hits! For Petula Clark, “Downtown” and for Dusty, “I Only Want To Be With You.” The third was when Mickie Most brought Brenda Lee to the UK to record “Is It True” (with Jimmy Page on guitar!)
We complete this short set of hits by this remarkable drummer with two of the biggest of 1964 by the Dave Clark Five, “Glad All Over” and “Bits and Pieces”
Bobby Graham Drummer
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| Birth name | Robert Francis Neate |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 March 1940 Edmonton, North London, England |
| Died | 14 September 2009 (aged 69) Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England |
| Occupation(s) | Session musician, drummer |
| Instruments | Drums |
| Years active | 1960s–2009 |
| Website | www.bobbygraham.co.uk |
Bobby Graham (born Robert Francis Neate, 11 March 1940 – 14 September 2009) was an English sessiondrummer, composer, arranger and record producer. Shel Talmy, who produced The Kinks, David Bowie and The Who, described Graham as 'the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced.'[1]
Biography[edit]
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Born at North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton, North London, England, Graham became a member of The Outlaws and worked with Joe Meek.[2] He left to join work with Joe Brown in 1961.[2] Graham was a part of the British elite session team (comparable to the American 'Wrecking Crew') made up of artists such as Big Jim Sullivan, Vic Flick and Jimmy Page.
Graham played on 13 number one singles, including those by The Dave Clark Five,[3]Englebert Humperdinck, Peter and Gordon, Jackie Trent, The Kinks, Tom Jones and Dusty Springfield, and appeared on a total of 40 UK top five hits (10 number two hits; 4 number 3 hits; 6 number 4 hits; 7 number five hits; 107 top 50 hits - 1155 days in the charts). In a discography that counts approximately 15,000 titles, he played on hits by John Barry, Shirley Bassey, Joe Cocker, Billy Fury, Herman's Hermits, Benny Hill, Rod Stewart, Dave Berry, Joe Brown and The Bruvvers, Chubby Checker, Petula Clark, Brenda Lee, Lulu, Brian Poole & The Tremeloes, The Pretty Things, PJ Proby, Van Morrison, Them, The Walker Brothers, and Marianne Faithfull.[4]
Graham also toured the UK as drummer in his own jazzband.
Death[edit]
On 14 September 2009, Bobby Graham died at the Isabel Hospice in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England after battling stomach cancer for five months. He was 69.
Recording credits[edit]
Graham played on over 15,000 titles,[5] including:
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- 'You Really Got Me', 'All Day And All Of The Night' and 'Tired of Waiting For You' by The Kinks
- 'We Gotta Get Out Of This Place' by The Animals
- 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl' by Rod Stewart
- 'Downtown' by Petula Clark
- 'Green Green Grass of Home' by Tom Jones[6]
- 'Gloria' and 'Baby Please Don't Go' by Them (ft. Van Morrison)
- 'I Only Want to Be with You' by Dusty Springfield
- 'I Believe' by The Bachelors
- 'Is It True' by Brenda Lee. Produced by Mickie Most in 1964.
- 'Glad All Over' and 'Bits and Pieces' by The Dave Clark Five
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Literature[edit]
- Patrick Harrington: The Session Man (Broom House Publishing Ltd., 12 Nov 2004) - ISBN0-9549142-0-1
References[edit]
- ^'UK's king of drums dies at 69'. Express.co.uk. 15 September 2009. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ ab'Bobby Graham career'. Bobbygraham.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^Gordon Thompson, 'You Really Got Me, Bobby Graham: In Memory', Oxford University Press, 16 September 2009. Retrieved 24 August 2020
- ^'Kinks and Tom Jones drummer dies'. BBC News. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^Herrington and Graham, The Session Man: The story of Bobby Graham, the UK's greatest session drummer, Broom House Publishing Limited, Monmouthshire, 2004 p 9
- ^Herrington, Patric and Bobby Graham, The Session Man: The Story of Bobby Graham, the UK's greatest session drummer, Broom House, Raglan, 2004, p. 129
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