| 词条 | H-Bomb Ferguson |
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| name = H-Bomb Ferguson | image = | alt = | caption = | image_size = | landscape = | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Robert Percell Ferguson | alias = Bob Ferguson | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|5|9}} | birth_place = Torest, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States | origin = | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|11|26|1929|5|9}} | death_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | genre = Rhythm and blues, jump blues | occupation = Singer, bandleader | instrument = | years_active = 1948–2006 | label = Derby, Savoy, Federal, others | associated_acts = | website = }}Robert Percell Ferguson (May 9, 1929 – November 26, 2006),[1][2] who performed as H-Bomb Ferguson, was an American jump blues singer. He was an early pioneer of the rock and roll style of the mid-1950s, featuring driving rhythm, intensely shouted vocals, honking tenor saxophone solos, and outlandish personal appearance. Ferguson sang and played piano in a flamboyant style, wearing colorful wigs.[3] Life and careerBorn in Torest, Charleston County, South Carolina,[2] he was the eleventh of twelve children. His father was a Baptist preacher who paid for piano lessons for his son,[4] on condition he learned sacred melodies. But Ferguson had other ideas. "After church was over, while the people was all standing outside talking, me and my friends would run back inside and I'd play the blues on the piano."{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} At the age of 19, he was on the road with Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers. They moved to New York, where Ferguson branched off on his own, getting a gig at the nightclub Baby Grand Club in Harlem, billed as "The Cobra Kid."[1] A blues shouter, he first recorded as Bob Ferguson in New York in 1950, for Derby Records, whose drummer Jack "The Bear" Parker (according to most sources) gave him the nickname "H-Bomb" and became his manager.[5] His debut was followed by releases on Atlas and Prestige,[6] before he signed a recording contract with Savoy Records in 1951. Several saxophone-driven singles followed, in the style of Wynonie Harris, and "Good Lovin'" was at least regionally successful though it failed to reached the national charts.[5] Ferguson toured clubs with such entertainers as Ruth Brown, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Redd Foxx, singing and telling jokes. He also continued to release singles on mostly small record labels.[6] In 1957 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and signed with King Records. His recordings on the King subsidiary Federal Records included "Mary, Little Mary" and "Midnight Ramblin' Tonight". He formed his own band, H-Bomb Ferguson and his Mad Lads, and developed his own style with more focus on his piano playing, touring through the 1960s.[1][5] He retired from performing in the early 1970s, but made several comebacks, notably performing at many blues festivals in Britain and Europe during the 1980s and 1990s in a characteristically flamboyant style, wearing a variety of multicolored wigs.[5] Backed by The Bluesmen he released "Bad Times Blues" in 1989 as a local LP release in Cincinnati under Papa Lou Recordings number 801 from Vetco Enterprises.[7] Backed by the Medicine Men, he recorded his first album, Wiggin' Out, for Chicago's Earwig Music in 1993.[1] He died in 2006 at the Hospice of Cincinnati, of complications from emphysema and cardiopulmonary disease, aged 77.[2] His early work was featured in a compilation album H-Bomb Ferguson: Big City Blues, 1951-54. Also a documentary was made of his life, entitled The Life And Times Of H-bomb Ferguson. References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|author=Bill Dahl |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/h-bomb-ferguson-mn0000651971/biography |title=H-Bomb Ferguson | Biography & History |publisher=AllMusic |date=2006-11-26 |accessdate=2015-10-26}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues - A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger Publishers| location= Santa Barbara| pages=329 | isbn= 978-0313344237}} 3. ^{{cite book| first= Barry Lee| last= Pearson| year= 2005| title= Jook right on: blues stories and blues storytellers| edition= 1st| publisher= University of Tennessee Press | location= Knoxville, Tennessee, United States| isbn= 1-57233-431-2| page= 196}} 4. ^Interview with The Post in 1988 5. ^1 2 3 "H-Bomb Ferguson", Black Cat Rockabilly. Retrieved 8 November 2016 6. ^1 H-Bomb Ferguson Discography, wangdangdula.com. Retrieved 8 November 2016 7. ^https://www.discogs.com/H-Bomb-Ferguson-Bluesmen-Bad-Times-Blues/release/5554304 External links
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