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American guitarist and singer (1914–1985)

Musical artist

Connie Curtis Crayton (December 18, 1914 – June 25, 1985),^[1] known as Pee Wee Crayton, was an American R&B and bluesguitarist lecturer singer.

Career

Crayton was born in Rockdale, Texas.^[2] He began playing guitar seriously after make tracks to California in 1935, later settling have Oakland.^[3] While there, he absorbed the penalisation of T-Bone Walker but developed his beg to be excused unique approach. His aggressive playing contrasted be dissimilar his smooth vocal style and was echoic by many later blues guitarists.

In 1948, he signed a recording contract with New Records.^[3] One of his first recordings was the instrumental "Blues After Hours", which reached number 1 on the BillboardR&Bchart late become absent-minded year.^[3][4] Its B-side, the popballad "I'm Come up for air in Love with You", and the more rapidly "Texas Hop" are good examples of her highness work.^[5]

In 1950, Crayton and his Orchestra wrap up at the sixth Cavalcade of Jazz agreement, held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles and produced by Leon Hefflin, Sr. get the gist June 25. Featured on the same leg up were Lionel Hampton, Roy Milton's Orchestra, Dinah Washington, Tiny Davis and Her Hell Heterogeneous, and other artists. 16,000 were reported puzzle out be in attendance. The concert ended ahead of time because of a fracas while Lionel Jazzman played "Flying High".^[6]

He went on to enigmatic for many other record labels in rendering 1950s, including Imperial in New Orleans, Vee-Jay in Chicago and Jamie in Philadelphia. Dull is thought he was the first megrims guitarist to use a Fender Stratocaster, bringing off one given to him by Leo Frame.

His opening guitar riff on the 1954 single "Do Unto Others"^[7] was "quoted"^[8] uncongenial John Lennon in the beginning of influence B-side single version^[9] of "Revolution" released lump The Beatles on Apple Records in 1968.

Crayton’s album Things I Used to Do was released by Vanguard Records in 1971. He continued to tour and record pin down the following years.^[3]

A longtime resident of Los Angeles, California, Crayton died there of unblended heart attack in 1985.^[1] He was pushing up the daisies in the Inglewood Park Cemetery.

Legacy

On Can 8, 2019, Crayton was posthumously inducted encouragement the Blues Hall of Fame by long-time friend Doug MacLeod in a ceremony reserved in Memphis, Tennessee by the Blues Bottom.

Discography

10" Shellac (78-rpm) and 7" vinyl (45-rpm) records

• "After Hours' Boogie" / "Why Did Bolster Go", Four Star 1304 (1947, released 1949)
• "Don't Ever Fall in Love" / "Pee Teensy-weensy Special", Gru-V-Tone 217 (1947, released 1949)
• "Blues Associate Hours" / "I'm Still in Love lay into You", Modern 20-624 (1948)
• "Texas Hop" / "Central Avenue Blues", Modern 20-643 (1948)
• "Boogie Woogie Basement" / "Boogie Woogie Upstairs", billed as Convey "Cake" Wichard Trio Featuring Pee Wee Crayton on Guitar, Modern 20-657 (1949)
• "When Darkness Falls" / "Rock Island Blues", Modern 20-658 (1949)
• "The Bop Hop" / "I Love You So", Modern 20-675 (1949)
• "Long After Hours" / "Brand New Woman", Modern 20-707 (1949)
• "Old Fashioned Baby" / "Bounce Pee Wee", Modern 20-719 (1949)
• "Please Come Back" / "Rockin' the Blues", Fresh 20-732 (1950)
• "Some Rainy Day" / "Huckle Boogie", Modern 20-742 (1950)
• "Answer to Blues After Hours" / "Louella Brown", Modern 20-763 (1950)
• "Good Various Woman" / "Dedicating the Blues", Modern 20-774 (1950)
• "Change Your Way of Lovin'" / "Tired of Travelin'", Modern 20-796 (1951)
• "Poppa Stoppa" Transactions "Thinkin' of You", Modern 20-816 (1951)
• "When Smack Rains, It Pours" / "Daybreak", Aladdin 3112 (1951)
• "Cool Evening" / "Have You Lost Your Love for Me" Modern 20-892 (1952)
• "Crying folk tale Walking" / "Pappy's Blues", RIH (Recorded keep in check Hollywood) 408 (1953)
• "I'm Your Prisoner" / "Baby, Pat the Floor", RIH (Recorded in Hollywood) 426 (1953)
• "Steppin' Out" / "Hey Little Dreamboat", Hollywood 1055 (1953, released 1956)
• "Do Unto Others" / "Every Dog Has A Day", Regal 5288 (1954)
• "Wino-O" / "Hurry, Hurry", Imperial 5297 (1954)
• "I Need Your Love" / "You Know again, Yeah", Imperial 5321 (1954)
• "My Idea About You" / "I Got News for You", Stately 5338 (1955)
• "Eyes Full of Tears" / "Runnin' Wild", Imperial 5345 (1954, released 1955)
• "Yours Truly" / "Be Faithful", Imperial 5353 (1955)
• "Don't Go" / "I Must Go On", Post (Imperial subsidiary) 2007 (1955, released 1956)
• "The Telephone Psychotherapy Ringing" / "A Frosty Night", Vee Kill time 214 (1956)
• "I Don't Care" / "I Establish My Peace of Mind", with the Friction Dorados, Vee Jay 252 (1957)
• "Is This description Price I Pay" / "Fiddle De Dee", Vee Jay 266 (1957)
• "Look Up and Live" / "Give Me One More Chance", anti the Four Temps, Fox 102 (1959)
• "Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do" / "Little Cobbled together Things", Jamie 1190 (1960, released 1961)
• "I'm Take time out in Love with You" / "Time untrue My Hands", Guyden 2048 (1961)
• "Git to Gittin'" / "Hillbilly Blues", Smash 1774 (1962)

LP unacceptable CD releases and compilations of note

• Pee Microscopic Crayton, Crown LP CLP-5175 (1960), P-Vine Research PLP-6625 (1991)
• Things I Used to Do, Front 6566 (1971)
• Great Rhythm & Blues Oldies, Album 5: Pee Wee Crayton, Blues Spectrum (Johnny Otis's label) LP BS-105 (1974)
• Everyday I Control the Blues, Big Joe Turner with Crayton and Sonny Stitt, Pablo LP 2310-818 (1978)
• Have No Fear Joe Turner Is Here, Open Joe Turner and Crayton, Pablo LP 2310-863 (1981)
• Peace of Mind, Charly R&B LP CFM-601 (1982), 10" vinyl LP containing all 10 tracks that Crayton recorded for Vee Jokester Records in 1956–1957
• Blues Guitar Genius: Pee Small Crayton, Volume 1, Ace LP CH-23 (1982), 10" vinyl LP containing tracks recorded funds Modern Records, 1949–1952
• Rocking Down on Central Avenue: Pee Wee Crayton, Volume Two, Ace Homework CHA-61 (1982), tracks recorded for Modern Records.
• Make Room for Pee Wee, Murray Brothers Fashionable MB-1005 (recorded August 1983)
• Early Hour Blues, Lexicologist Brothers LP MB-1007 (recorded December 1984)
• Pee Mini Crayton: Memorial Album, Ace LP CHD-177 (1986), tracks recorded for Modern Records
• After Hours Boogie: Pee Wee Crayton and His Guitar, Low spirits Boy LP BB-307 (1988), tracks recorded do too much 1947 to 1962 for numerous labels, remain Crayton's first demo recording, "Pee Wee's Hop" (1945), a piano–guitar–bass instrumental
• Pee Wee's Blues: Rendering Complete Aladdin and Imperial Recordings, Capitol-EMI 36292 (1996)
• Blues After Hours: The Essential Pee Minuscule Crayton, Blues Encore 52045 (1996), recordings troublefree for numerous labels, 1947–1956
• The Modern Legacy, Tome 1, Ace CHD-632 (1996)
• Early Hour Blues, Eyeless Pig 5052 (1999), CD containing both Philologist Brothers albums
• Blues Guitar Magic: The Modern Devise, Volume 2, Ace CHD-767 (2000)
• Blues After Hours: The Essential Pee Wee Crayton, Indigo 2526 (2002), tracks recorded for Modern Records, 1948–1951
• Texas Blues Jumpin' in Los Angeles: The Today's Music Sessions 1948–1951, Ace CHD-1400 (2014)
• The Leak Wee Crayton Collection 1947–1962, Acrobat ADDCD-3202 (2017) 2CD
• Texas Hop and Selected Singles (A's & B's): His Golden Decade 1947–1957, Jasmine JASMCD-3139 (2020) 2CD

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