Gene Barge, one of the last surviving saxophone players in the R & B's golden age, died of a career that won the black popular music in the 20th century at Chicago's home on Sunday. He was 98 years old.
His death was confirmed by his daughter Gina Barge.
Mr. Burge, known for his nickname Daddy G, played on a landmark hit of the Rock and Seoul era, and began with the Swing Rider, the CC Rider of Chuck Willis.
“CC Rider”, which was zinc by Barge's tenor saxophone, reached the first place on the R & B chart in 1957, and was just outside the top 10 pop charts. In 1963, Mr. Burge was NO in Jimmy Soul's Carypo derivative “if you wanna be happy”. It was introduced in 1 pop and R & B hits.
However, his biggest praise came in the 1961, the No. 1 pop single recorded by R & B Shouter Gary US Bonds. Bond created “3 to 3” to take advantage of his first huge hit, “New Orleans”. In his band the Church Street Five.
“Oh, I don't know what I danced/I danced from a quarter to three. With the help of Daddy G last night,” Bond sings at the opening chorus.
(“Daddy G” is a good luck when borrowed the melody of “Runaround sue”, which is a mystery that sucks a finger that has broken through the pop chart in the latter half of 1961.)
Despite the benefits of Burge's snake saxophone run, and despite the affinity of the twist dance trends on the day, the “quarter to 3” was unlikely. It sounded as if it was recorded in a bathroom or staircase in a stairwell, as if it was muffled.
“This record is fuzzy and is distorted by a muzzle,” said British television producer Jack Good, the 1961 disc, and the popular weekly magazine was later absorbed by record mirrors. “According to the current technical standards, it's terrifying, but for my money, the disc is not only good, but also sensational and innovative.”
Good's evaluation was proved to be foresight. The enthusiastic fusion of DOO-WOP and BLACK GOSPEL and Frat Rock has not only influenced the “Quoter Tou 3”, a large rock and roll of the Beatles, a band like a band like a kingmen or a Saddy Glass Question. It was. We also provided blue photos of saxophone and vocal replacement between Clarence Clemons and Bruce Springsteen.
Burge, who invaded the pop music when the saxophone was dominant (and before taking an electric guitar), was as unique and as a multi -purpose stylist as King Curtis, even if he was not well known. For over 60 years, he has played or created or created a record on Muddy Waters, CHI-Lits and The Sucendiary Detroit FUNK BLACK MERDA. He also toured with Ray Charles, Bo Diddlies and Rolling Stones.
The source of the information is different about how Burge has become known as Daddy G. However, Sobrette had already gained traction before the release of the quarter of the quarter when the Philadelphia Disk Jockey adopted “Night with Daddy G”. As a theme song for his radio program. Shortly thereafter, the DOO-WOP Group THE DOVELLS paid tribute to Mr. Burge in the 1961 hit “Bristol Stomp” and said, “We were twisted with pony and shaken with Daddy G.”
James Gene Barge Jr. was born on August 9, 1926 in Norfolk, Virginia. His father played a banjo and worked as a welding machine at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. His mother managed the house.
Burge played a clarinet in high school, picking up saxophone only after his father brought back the flooded tenor found on a torpedo ship. He was 20 at the time and was just completed by the Army Air Force for two years.
After getting a music degree in 1950 and graduating from West Virginia State University, he taught high school and pursued music as a tracking. Jazz was a form of forming, especially a great tenor saxophonist, Leicester Young, foaming.
The first recording created by Burge's own name was an instrumental pair for a checker, a 1956 -chess record subsidiary. His first single, the country, was a hit along the east coast.
“When chess heard it, they said,” What is it? “
“They had never heard of such a saxophone sound. They gave it a word: funk. It was a reputation I got -that jean barge can play funky. I did.
Around 1960, Burge began a relationship with producer Frank Gida, but with a lot of fruit. His Label at Frank Gida released “Daddy G Night with Daddy G” and Bond's early single. Burge and Bond recorded the second major hit together with “the school is out,” and reached the top 10 in 1961, but only enjoyed modest success.
In 1964, as independent records with national distribution dominate the local market, Burge abandoned the traces of education and no fork's small Lugland and moved to Chicago to work in Chess Records. He played with R & B hits like Little Milton's “Gritz Ain Glosary” and Coco Taylor's “One Dan Doodle”, and produced an album that was praised in 1967 in 1967. I did.
In the late 1960s, he also supervised the music ensemble of the Chicago Branch, Rev. Martin Lou Circling Junior Operation Bred Basket.
Burge later operated the Gospel category of Stax Records and worked for several decades as a freelance musician, producer and arranger. The most prominent was the Natalie Call's Grammy Award -winning single, a sophisticated woman (she is another woman). In the late 1970s, he detoured acting and worked locally in Chicago (he made a screen debut as a saxophonist in the independent 1978 movie Stoy Island). And “Escape” (1993).
Burge continued to work and served as a consultant for the 2003 PBS documentary series “THE BLUES” and AVANT-GARDE JAZZZ Like Malachi Thompson I played on the record.
“Gene Burge is the strongest Oxtroneian I know,” said Public Einmia's Chuck D, to Virginia, who lived in 2007.
In addition to his daughter Gina, Burge survived by another daughter, Galle Florence. Three brothers, Celestin Bailey, Kim Williamson, Milton Virg. Two grandchildren. And several Great grandchildren. His wife, Sarvage, died in 2008. His first marriage ended with a divorce.
Burge's career may not have been to the start of Chuck Willis's CC Rider. After playing the crushed riffs in a demonstration that persuaded Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler as a single, he flew to New York for sessions.
“Ertegun and Wexler said they were going to pay me, but they didn't want to play,” said Burge.
“I went to a liquor store, the man got a pint, sitting on the floor and listening to them. They did 27 times, but they were not satisfied. Chuck. I said, “Look, why can't you get the feeling by running Gene?” Let's cut it.
Ash Wu has contributed to the report.
