Hank Ballard dead

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No more workin' with Annie, sad to say.

http://199.249.170.183/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1829032

― pauls00, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the greats.
I have only one CD, a greatest hits. But I remember hearing a great Hank Ballard song used in the movie "The River's Edge." Anyone remember what it was and where I can get it?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Way underrated. Somebody really needs to collect all the JB-produced singles he made in one convenient place. "Butter Your Popcorn"! Also, some of the stuff he did in the mid-'70s when he was obsessed with streaking is pretty amazing ("Let's Go Streaking" etc.).

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

My dad used to go see HB and the Midnighters play in Chester, PA in the '50s (before the crippling urban decay made the city the subject of all those Ed 101 movies they showed in college). I bet he is pretty bent about HB being dead.

― j breitling (BlastsofStatic), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"Sexy Ways," "Finger-Poppin' Time," "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" are all great. But my favorite Hank Ballard record is probably "What Is This I See," in which he hilariously (in its obviousness) recasts the Sensational Nightingale's gospel hit "Standing in the Judgement" as a ode to picking up girls.

― Burr, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

That's awful news. I have a few of his albums, and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" is somewhere up there among my favourite records.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i think hank ballard was the first 50s r&b i listened to. picked up a Charly records compilation for some reason, way back in the mid 80s. had "let's go", "sexy ways", etc. after that, there was no turning back. didn't listen to any "modern" music for quite a few years after that. Where's this "What is this I see?" track available? Don't think I've heard that one.

― pauls00, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

a pioneer of the idea that singles work as part of a public argument with other artists?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

so classic

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Ballard's 1968 reworking of "Licking Stick-Licking Stick":

"How You Gonna Get Respect (When You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet)"--when you go to the nearest barbershop, "tell 'em Hank Ballard sent ya."

― Jess Hill (jesshill), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

a pioneer of the idea that singles work as part of a public argument with other artists?

Lotsa blues singers did this in the 30s/40s, but yeah, HB is absolutely classic. I didn't know about his JB-produced stuff until last year, and I wish I could hear more.

He had a nice "hiccuping" vocal style.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, i shd have said argument in a public forum (= the charts: R&B charts in fact)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"Where's this 'What Is This I See" track available?"

I found it on a 45, but it's also on The Very Best of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (on Collectables).

― Burr, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

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