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At the beginning of the 1940s Joe was a member of Sammy Franklin's band, The California Rhythm Rascals. Joe wrote "The Honeydripper" and started performing it with Sammy's band. He offered Sammy co-composer rights if he would front up $500 to cover the cost of recording the song but Sammy turned him down.
Liggins claimed to have written the tune around 1942, when playing piano in Los Angeles with a group called the California Rhythm Rascals. The tune was based around the traditional song "Shortnin' Bread".
Moving to Los Angeles, California in 1939, he joined Sammy Franklin’s California Rhythm Rascals and other local groups. Joe Liggins presented his song “The Honeydripper” to Sammy Franklin, but when Franklin turned it down, he left the California Rhythm Rascals and started his own group.
Sammy Franklin and His California Rhythm Rascals as a pianist in 1939 (Ellison 1985, 4). Walter "Dootsie" Williams (a bandleader, arranger, and trumpet player who remained active for years in the Los Angeles music scene as a songwriter, performer, session player, and record-company owner) fronted several big bands (California Eagle December 18 ...
24 de ene. de 2016 · JOE LIGGINS started his professional career as a member of Sammy Franklin's California Rhythm Rascals. When Sammy refused to record Joe's song, The Honeydripper, Joe went out and started his own band (called The Honeydrippers). That song became a huge hit, one of the best selling R&B records ever, spending weeks at the top of the charts.
Joe Liggins said he had written his infectious tune already in 1942 when he was still playing with Sammy Franklin's California Rhythm Rascals, but when Franklin declined to record "The Honeydripper", he decided to start his own outfit with Little Willie Jackson.
