Syd Nathan
Sydney "Syd" Nathan (27 April 1904 – 5 March 1968) was an American music business executive, who founded King Records, a leading independent record label, in 1943.
He contributed to the development of country & western, rhythm and blues and rock and roll music, and is credited with discovering many prominent musicians, most notably James Brown whose first single "Please, Please, Please" was released on the subsidiary label Federal in 1956. Nathan was described as "One of the truly eccentric figures of the record industry ... [who] ruled his label like a dictator ... [and] constantly screamed and intimidated his artists and employees" He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in the "non-performer" category, in 1997.
Biography
Syd Nathan was born to a Jewish family in Cincinnati, Ohio. He left school in the ninth grade, suffering from poor eyesight and asthma. He played as a drummer in clubs, and spent his early adulthood working in a series of jobs in real estate, amusement parks, and pawn and jewelry stores. In the mid 1930s, with his sister and her husband, he opened a radio and phonograph store, before moving to Florida to be with his brother and open a photofinishing business.
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Syd Nathan
ALBUMS
- The King R&B Box Set released: 1996
The King R&B Box Set
Released 1996- I Know Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well
- Bye, Bye Baby Blues
- I Love You, Yes I Do
- Tomorrow Night
- I Want a Bowlegged Woman
- Good Rockin' Tonight
- Long About Midnight
- Blues for the Red Boy
- Pleasing You (As long as I live)
- Rockin' at Midnight
- Pot Likker
- Guess Who
- All She Wants to Do Is Rock
- Page Boy Shuffle
- Ashes on My Pillow
- Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me
- Jealous Heart
- Sittin' on It All the Time
- Well, Oh Well
- Hard Luck Blues
- Good Morning Judge
- Disgusted
- Sixty Minute Man
- Flamingo
- I'm Waiting Just for You
- Bloodshot Eyes
Born: 1904-04-27
Died: 1968-03-05
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by Sensational Alex Harvey Band
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by Richard Mcgraw
St. Anthony
by: Sensational Alex Harvey BandSt Anthony was a travelling man
She was a gogo agitator
He went to bed with a whip in his hand
Doing his best to stimulate her
St Anthony, St Anthony, St Anthony, St Anthony
St Anthony was all alone
And around come a two tone choclate biscuit
She comes around when the sun goes down
Saying come on baby you can risk it
St Anthony, St Anthony, St Anthony, St Anthony
She tied St Anthony to the bed
And said I'm gonna be your master
Come on baby dont turn me loose
Just keep on doing it faster faster
St Anthony, St Anthony, St Anthony, St Anthony
St Anthony was on his knees
holding his hands in suffracation
Oh Lord have mercy on my soul
lead me not into temptation
Oh the sensation
Oh the revelation
Oh the temptation of St Anthony
Oh the temptation
Oh the sensation
Oh the revelation of the reincarnation
Of St Anthony
St Anthony
St Anthony
St Anthony