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  Hank Ballard and the Midnighters
Hank Ballard's place in Rock and Roll history was cemented with the sexually explicated lyrics and gospel rhythms of his songs.
Ballard with his group the Midnighters recorded several hits in the early fifties."Work With Me Annie", "Annie Had a Baby", and "Annies's Aunt Fanny" all sold over a million copies even though they were banned.
Hank Ballard died March 2, 2003 in Los Angeles, CA Hank Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990
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 Hank Ballard
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.
The consensus of opinion is that Hank Ballard hitched on to the Royals not at the very beginning but near it (1953), perhaps replacing then-lead Lawson Smith, with Charles Sutton, Sonny Woods, and Henry Booth singing backup.
By mid-decade, Hank had landed on the soul label, Stang, a division of All Platinum (which eventually bought Chess) of Englewood, NJ, run by the husband and wife team of Joe and Sylvia (of Mickey and Sylvia fame) Robinson, whose bread and butter was the soul group, the Moments.
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 Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Pandora Internet Radio
Ballard's hard-driving, rhythmic style was also an underappreciated influence on the rawer side of RandB, particularly on a young James Brown; plus, his composition "The Twist" -- recorded for a hit by Chubby Checker -- became one of the biggest hits in rock and roll history.
Ballard's first recording with the group was 1953's "Get It," which hit the Top Ten on the RandB 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).
The Midnighters gradually disintegrated and Ballard became a solo act; by the end of the '60s, he was working with longtime fan James Brown, who produced several singles for Ballard during the late '60s and early '70s.
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 Hank Ballard
"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.
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 and Midnighters continued to record deep blues and infectious, undiluted RandB such as “Finger Poppin’ Time” and “Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go” into the early Sixties.
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 Hank Ballard And The Midnighters - Songs
Formed in 1952, the highly acclaimed Hank Ballard and the Midnighters had a long history with many group name and personnel changes over the years.
Hank Ballard's best known songs include "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" (1960), "Finger Poppin' Time" (1960), and the original version of "The Twist" (1960, made famous by Chubby Checker).
Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
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 RollingStone.com: Hank Ballard : "Twist" Writer Ballard Dies : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ballard, born John H. Kendricks in Detroit, formed his first doo-wop group while a teenager working on the Ford assembly lines.
He was discovered in the early Fifties by the writer and producer Johnny Otis and became frontman for the notoriously naughty Hank Ballard and the Midnighters.
Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
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 Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Rhythm & Blues - Randy's Rodeo
Hank Ballard and The Midnighters cut a little song called "The Twist." It met with moderate success and was on the cusp of obscurity when a cover version by an unknown singer with a stupid name shot to Number One (twice, no less) to become the biggest hit single of the pre-Whitney Houston era.
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).
Hank first begged "Work With Me Annie," but had to desist when "Annie Had A Baby." In between, Ballard and others cut a seemingly endless string of answer songs (a tradition that continues in RandB to the present).
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 Hank Ballard
Back in the 40s, blues and RandB existed on race labels which were sold basically by word of mouth, but not yet broadcast via the radio; so it really wasn’t that an unusual admission that he was influenced by CandW broadcasts.
“Hank Ballard and the Midnighters were the 2 Live Crew of the early 50s, burning up the airwaves and Black jukeboxes,” asserts Cub Koda in his review of the 1993 retrospective, Sexy Ways, a “best of” package on Rhino records, which specializes in reissues.
By mid-decade, Hank had landed on the soul label, Stang, a division of All Platinum (which eventually bought Chess) of Englewood, NJ, run by the husband and wife team of Joe and Sylvia(of Mickey and Sylvia fame) Robinson, whose bread and butter was the soul group, the Moments.
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 Biography and Discography - Hank Ballard and the Midnighters
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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."
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 Rhythm & Blues - Newsletter 123 - Hank Ballard -> Paul Williams
Two maestros of the tenor sax show their chops on a selection of 18 tracks from the 50s - 8 solo sides by each and three duets including a version of the Duke's "Take The 'A' Train".
Before they were Hank Ballard and The Midnighters they were just The Midnighters and, before that, The Royals.
This set features 25 tracks recorded between 1952 and 1959 including two from their first session before Ballard joined them including the original recording of Every Beat Of My Heart which was a big hit for Gladys Knight and The Pips nine years later.
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After a collaboration with James Brown in the early 70s, Ballard returned in 1979 with the re-formed Midnighters and published this 12" where he shows his class taking the blues to the disco!
Hank Ballard is rightly elected into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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