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	Lonnie Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1894 – June 6, 1970) was a pioneering blues and jazz singer/guitarist born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Lonnie Johnson's career was a rollercoaster ride that sometimes took him away from music.
		Johnson died in Ontario, Canada, June 16, 1970 of complications resulting from a 1969 auto accident.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lonnie_Johnson (467 words)

	Lonnie Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lonnie Johnson was born February 8, 1894, at Rampart and Franklin in New Orleans.
		Big Bill Broonzy remembered that "Lonnie told me he was born in New Orleans in 1894, but he looked to be, in 1952, about forty-seven years old." The entire family appears to have been musically gifted, and after a brief stint in a lumberyard, Lonnie began working with them, more or less professionally.
		In 1969 Lonnie is badly injured in a traffic accident and while recovering suffers a stroke that paralysis his left side.
	nublues.port5.com /Historyoftheblues/lonniejohnson.htm (1069 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Johnson capped a childhood of tinkering with appliances in his senior year of high school, when he won a national inventing competition for "Linex," a remote-control robot he had built out of junkyard scraps.
		Johnson had first conceived his most famous invention in 1982: when a homemade nozzle at his bathroom sink shot a spray of water across the room, Johnson resolved to invent the world's first high-performance, pressurized water gun.
		Lonnie Johnson has won numerous honors for his success in inventing and entrepreneurship, and his constant encouragement of young people to invent.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/johnson.html (469 words)

	Lonnie Johnson: Biography
		For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues, jazz, and ballads his way; he was a true blues originator whose influence hung heavy on a host of subsequent blues immortals.
		Johnson went with Cincinnati-based King Records in 1947 and promptly enjoyed one of the biggest hits of his uncommonly long career with the mellow ballad "Tomorrow Night," which topped the RandB charts for seven weeks in 1948.
		Johnson's influence was massive, touching everyone from Robert Johnson, whose seminal approach bore strong resemblance to that of his older namesake, to Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, who each paid heartfelt tribute with versions of "Tomorrow Night" while at Sun.
	afgen.com /lonnie_johnson.html (432 words)

	Lonnie Johnson CD Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Johnson was himself aware of this phenomenon and distanced himself from the "revival".
		Ironically, while folk audiences were rejecting Johnson as not "bluesy" enough, Duke Ellington, in 1961, allegedly refused to appear on stage with the "old blues guy".
		While Lonnie Johnson, an acknowledged an influential master of the blues/jazz guitar, was eventually ignored, and even scorned, by those whose musical careers were, in part, made possible by his revolutionary innovations, I do not consider his a tragic story.
	www.foxvalleyblues.org /cd-reviews/lonniejohnson-unsung-po.html (771 words)

	batesmeyer, inc. \| lonnie johnson
		As it happens, Lonnie Johnson was a much more important figure than Robert Johnson or Skip James in the evolution of the blues.
		Lonnie Johnson was born in New Orleans on February 8, 1899, one of a family of 13 children.
		The 1950's were a rough time for Johnson and by the end of the decade he was working as a hotel janitor in Philadelphia.
	www.batesmeyer.com /lonniejohnson (604 words)

	Amazon.com: Steppin' on the Blues: Music: Lonnie Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lonnie Johnson's linear invention and chordal solidity on guitar was of such a magnitude that he attained Olympian status in jazz and blues.
		Lonnie Johnson was the first great blues guitarist, along with his partner Eddie Lang, he was the first great Jazz guitarist, he remained a song writer and a vocalist able to hit the charts with R & B hits well intothe late 1940s.
		Lonnie was the antithesis of the false folkie-based stereotype of a blues performer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002756?v=glance (2282 words)

	Lonnie Johnson, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Johnson went with Cincinnati-based King Records in 1947 and promptly enjoyed one of the biggest hits of his uncommonly long career with the mellow ballad "Tomorrow Night," which topped the R&B charts for seven weeks in 1948.
		That rekindled a major comeback, Johnson cutting a series of albums for Prestige's Bluesville subsidary during the early '60s and venturing to Europe under the auspices of Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau's American Folk Blues Festival banner in 1963.
		Finally, in 1969, Johnson was hit by a car in Toronto and died a year later from the effects of the accident.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10564/10564580.html (524 words)

	Lonnie Johnson News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lonnie Johnson - Steppin' on the Blues (Columbia,...
		Lonnie Johnson - Steppin' on the Blues Of all of the prolific pre-war bluesmen, very few could match the instrumental virtuosity of guitarist and singer Lonnie Johnson.
		Born Alfonzo Johnson on February 8, 1894, Lonnie Johnson was one of the inventors of the blues and early jazz.
	www.topix.net /who/lonnie-johnson (183 words)

	Lonnie Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lonnie is born on 8th February in New Orleans possibly near Memphis.
		Lonnie Johnson makes his final public performance, at Toronto's Massey Hall.
		As a result of complications from the 1969 accident, Lonnie dies on 16th June 1970.
	www.john-meekings.co.uk /ljohnson.html (423 words)

	Lonnie Johnson - Death Row, Texas
		Lonnie claims that he spent 4 1/2 years in jail in Houston before his case came to and that his state appointed (legal aid) attorney visited him only twice in all that
		Lonnie says it was a past girl-friend who told the police about him and the shooting.
		My name is Lonnie Earl Johnson, a 36 year old african american male, currently imprisoned on death row, in the state of Texas, and I am very interested in gaining correspondence from people all over the world.
	www.ccadp.org /lonniejohnson.htm (1741 words)

	Blues Lyrics On Line: LONNIE JOHNSON
		Lonnie Johnson recorded this on June 16, 1931 in New York.
		Lonnie Johnson recorded this classic blues on December 17, 1927 in Chicago.
		It was reissued on the LP "Lonnie Johnson, Volume Two: 1927-32" on the Matchbox Bluesmaster Series in 1987.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/Delta/2541/blljohn2.htm (332 words)

	Lonnie G. Johnson: Inventor of the Super Soaker®
		Famous fl inventor and scientist Lonnie G. Johnson probably didn’t have that little scenario in mind when he invented the Super Soaker squirt gun, but it is one of the countless memories that can be recalled by those who were young enough to enjoy the Super Soaker after its release in 1989.
		Johnson’s resume boasts work with the US Air Force and NASA (including work on the Galileo Jupiter probe and Mars Observer project), a nomination for astronaut training and more than 40 patents, but it’s for a squirt gun that he’s best known.
		Johnson conceived of a novelty water gun powered by air pressure in 1982 when he conducted an experiment at home on a heat pump that used water instead of Freon.
	www.black-inventor.com /Lonnie-G-Johnson.asp (266 words)

	Lonnie Johnson
		He and his surviving brother, James "Steady Roll" Johnson moved to St. Louis in 1920 where Lonnie played with Charlie Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs and with Fate Marable in their Mississippi riverboat bands.
		In 1925 Johnson married Blues singer Mary Johnson and won a Blues contest sponsored by the Okeh record company.
		Johnson continued to play for the rest of his life, but was often forced to leave the music business for periods to make a living.
	www.redhotjazz.com /ljohnson.html (387 words)

	Amazon.com: Another Night to Cry: Music: Lonnie Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lonnie had tough times in the depression and afterwards that would sometimes take him out of music.
		Lonnie Johnson is the one of the blues masters who influenced Jimi Hendrix.
		Lonnie Johnson creates melody and harmony at the same time without sweeping a chord.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000XYQ?v=glance (675 words)

	Lonnie Johnson Music - Favorite Songs - Lyrics From (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robert Johnson was born in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, May 8, 1911, but spent much of his early life in levee camps and on plantations in the northern Delta.
		Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was one of 13 children born into a large musical family in New Orleans...
		Lonnie Donegan was a very influential member of the pop music scene in the United Kingdom in the 50's and 60's, and is best known as the individual who launched the skiffle movement.
	www.lyricsfrom.com /artists/l/Lonnie-Johnson.html (1446 words)

	Lonnie Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lonnie Johnson produced records probably longer than any other bluesman.
		He recorded with such notables as Eddie Lang and Duke Ellington in the jazz idiom as well as creating a huge catalog of blues issues from the mid-twenties until his death some forty years later.
		Lonnie Johnson was the “governor” of blues guitar in the 1920’s.
	www.worldofgramophones.com /lonniejohnson.html (102 words)

	eBay - lonnie johnson, Records, CDs items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lonnie Johnson - Playing With the Strings (W/..
		Lonnie Johnson Sings 24 Bar Blues 12" LP King 1988
		From Denmark LONNIE JOHNSON MASTER OF BLUES V. LONNIE JOHNSON: 1926-1940 (blues, vinyl LP)
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=lonnie+johnson&newu=1&... (467 words)

	Lonnie G. Johnson
		Image Credit: Johnson Research and Development Co Lonnie G. Johnson
		Lonnie G. Johnson (1949–) invented the world-famous watergun, the Supersoaker.
		: Johnson's company just came out with a new Nerf ball toy gun.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/bhistory/inventors/johnson.htm (33 words)

	Lonnie Johnson - Acoustic Guitar Forum
		Lonnie's early recordings are a lot better than his later stuff.
		Dylan also talks about his conversations with Lonnie Johnson and how Lonnie's ideas transformed Dylan's approach to music; - it was about rhythm and timing- I think Prof Bob.
		According to Van Ronk, Johnson didn't fingperick guitar the same way and with the the same fluency in the 1960s as he did in the 1920s, in part because he had stopped playing for years.
	www.guitarseminars.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/001484.html (612 words)

	Lonnie Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lonnie Johnson was a very clever inventor he is most famous for creating the extremely popular and beloved "
		And even today lonnie is creating more and more water toys even to this day!
		lonnie with two modern super soakers this is the inventor of the first and nearly every super soaker!
	www.sd104.s-cook.k12.il.us /students/jwatkiss-johnson.html (166 words)

	Attorney Lonnie Johnson, Mallor Clendening Grodner & Bohrer LLP, Bloomington, Indiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A cum laude 1992 graduate of Indiana University's School of Law, Lonnie has been admitted to the bar in Indiana and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.
		A Phi Beta Kappa, Lonnie also graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science in 1989.
		Lonnie's concentrations include civil litigation, insurance defense and business law.
	www.mcgb.com /Bio/LonnieJohnson.asp (85 words)

	Lonnie Johnson - AOL Music
		The Super Soaker was invented in 1988 under the original name of the Power Drencher and a whole new era of power water squirters began - invented by Lonnie...
		Lonnie Johnson's career was a rollercoaster ride that sometimes took him away from...
		Download, listen and watch Lonnie Johnson music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/lonnie-johnson/394/main (198 words)

	Lonnie Johnson Lyrics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lonnie Johnson is probably one of the most important links between the birth of blues music as a regional idiomatic art form and American popular music from jazz to rock.
		As a guitarist, he was a hugely influential presence, shaping the playing of innovators from Charlie Christian to B.B. King, and by extension, Chuck Berry and countless rockers.
		Johnson was also able to adapt when the folk blues revival of the '60s came along playing expertly in that style.
	www.getlyrics.com /?Artist=Lonnie+Johnson&Order=Links (202 words)

	Lonnie Johnson Photo - Acoustic Guitar Forum
		Anyway I was looking at the usual picture of Lonnie on the front of the tab book, it's the one you always see of him.
		Lonnie Johnson is one of the great 12-string players.
		Would be grateful for any recommendations of your favorite Lonnie Johnson recordings.
	www.guitarseminars.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/001763.html (1958 words)

	Lonnie Johnson statistics - pro-football-reference.com
		Lonnie Johnson never finished in the top 10 in any major category.
		Lonnie Johnson is not in the all-time top 50 in any major category.
		Please read this fine print before using this data or sending questions or corrections.
	www.pro-football-reference.com /players/JohnLo00.htm (131 words)

	Lonnie Johnson mp3. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lonnie Johnson I'm So Tired Of Living All Alone mp3
		Lonnie Johnson When You Fall For Someone That's Not Your Own mp3
		Lonnie Johnson Way Down That Lonesome Road mp3
	lonniejohnson.dietforasmallplanet.com (86 words)

	Blind Willie Dunn and Lonnie Johnson
		Blind Willie Dunn was a pseudonym that guitarist Eddie Lang's records were released under when he teamed up with Lonnie Johnson on the Okeh label.
		Although the November on 1928 sessions he isn't accompanied by Johnson he is accompanied by pianists Frank Signorelli and Justin Ring.
		These records were simply released as by Blind Willie Dunn with piano accompaniment.
	www.redhotjazz.com /dunnjohnson.html (94 words)

	Lonnie Johnson - CONNECT, Powered By Sony
		For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues, jazz, and ballads his way; he was a true blues originator whose influence hung heavy on a host of subsequ...
		Robert Johnson, Fletcher Henderson, Brownie McGhee, T-Bone Walker, Charles Hiestand, Blind Willie McTell, Big Bill Broonzy, Charlie Christian, Clarence Williams, Jess Stacy, Jimmie Noone
		B.B. King, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Charlie Christian, Blind Willie McTell, Big Bill Broonzy, Charles Hiestand, Johnny Shines, Blind Boy Fuller
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/163/258/25/16325825.html (145 words)

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