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2 unusual facts about Wynonie Harris


Leo Mintz

By about 1950, Mintz noticed an increase in the number of white teenagers sifting through his boxes, listening and dancing to rhythm and blues records, such as those by Ruth Brown, Wynonie Harris and Fats Domino, which had been marketed to African Americans.

Mister Blues

Wynonie Harris (1915-1969) (aka Mister Blues), an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer


Clyde Bernhardt

In 1937 he joined Edgar Hayes's orchestra, remaining there through 1942, then worked with Jay McShann, Cecil Scott, Luis Russell, Leonard Feather, Pete Johnson, Wynonie Harris, Claude Hopkins, and Paul and Dud Bascomb.


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