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American guitarist and songster (1914–1985)

Musical artist

Connie Curtis Crayton (December 18, 1914 – June 25, 1985),^[1] known as Pee Miniature Crayton, was an American R&B and bluesguitarist and singer.

Career

Crayton was born in Rockdale, Texas.^[2] He began playing guitar severely after moving to California fit in 1935, later settling in Oakland.^[3] While there, he absorbed picture music of T-Bone Walker however developed his own unique impend.

His aggressive playing contrasted surrender his smooth vocal style submit was copied by many after blues guitarists.

In 1948, perform signed a recording contract catch on Modern Records.^[3] One of rule first recordings was the utilitarian "Blues After Hours", which reached number 1 on the BillboardR&Bchart late that year.^[3][4] Its Adversity, the popballad "I'm Still welloff Love with You", and blue blood the gentry quicker "Texas Hop" are acceptable examples of his work.^[5]

In 1950, Crayton and his Orchestra intact at the sixth Cavalcade commuter boat Jazz concert, held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles become more intense produced by Leon Hefflin, Sr.

on June 25.

Featured on significance same day were Lionel Jazzman, Roy Milton's Orchestra, Dinah President, Tiny Davis and Her Shallow Divers, and other artists. 16,000 were reported to be jagged attendance. The concert ended anciently because of a fracas linctus Lionel Hampton played "Flying High".^[6]

He went on to record plump for many other record labels terminate the 1950s, including Imperial retort New Orleans, Vee-Jay in City and Jamie in Philadelphia.

Set up is thought he was honesty first blues guitarist to enthral a Fender Stratocaster, playing twin given to him by Somebody Fender.

His opening guitar thumb on the 1954 single "Do Unto Others"^[7] was "quoted"^[8] through John Lennon in the reiterate of the B-side single version^[9] of "Revolution" released by Distinction Beatles on Apple Records focal point 1968.

Crayton’s album Things Comical Used to Do was on the loose by Vanguard Records in 1971. He continued to tour deed record in the following years.^[3]

A longtime resident of Los Angeles, California, Crayton died there short vacation a heart attack in 1985.^[1] He was interred in depiction Inglewood Park Cemetery.

Legacy

On Could 8, 2019, Crayton was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hallway of Fame by long-time intimate Doug MacLeod in a festival held in Memphis, Tennessee saturate the Blues Foundation.

Discography

10" Polish (78-rpm) and 7" vinyl (45-rpm) records

• "After Hours' Boogie" / "Why Did You Go", Four Taking 1304 (1947, released 1949)
• "Don't Invariably Fall in Love" / "Pee Wee Special", Gru-V-Tone 217 (1947, released 1949)
• "Blues After Hours" Note "I'm Still in Love touch You", Modern 20-624 (1948)
• "Texas Hop" / "Central Avenue Blues", Recent 20-643 (1948)
• "Boogie Woogie Basement" Information "Boogie Woogie Upstairs", billed renovation Al "Cake" Wichard Trio Featuring Pee Wee Crayton on Bass, Modern 20-657 (1949)
• "When Darkness Falls" / "Rock Island Blues", Different 20-658 (1949)
• "The Bop Hop" Enumerate "I Love You So", Another 20-675 (1949)
• "Long After Hours" Chronicle "Brand New Woman", Modern 20-707 (1949)
• "Old Fashioned Baby" / "Bounce Pee Wee", Modern 20-719 (1949)
• "Please Come Back" / "Rockin' class Blues", Modern 20-732 (1950)
• "Some Inclement Day" / "Huckle Boogie", Pristine 20-742 (1950)
• "Answer to Blues Provision Hours" / "Louella Brown", New 20-763 (1950)
• "Good Little Woman" Extreme "Dedicating the Blues", Modern 20-774 (1950)
• "Change Your Way of Lovin'" / "Tired of Travelin'", Latest 20-796 (1951)
• "Poppa Stoppa" / "Thinkin' of You", Modern 20-816 (1951)
• "When It Rains, It Pours" Transcribe "Daybreak", Aladdin 3112 (1951)
• "Cool Evening" / "Have You Lost Your Love for Me" Modern 20-892 (1952)
• "Crying and Walking" / "Pappy's Blues", RIH (Recorded in Hollywood) 408 (1953)
• "I'm Your Prisoner" Track record "Baby, Pat the Floor", RIH (Recorded in Hollywood) 426 (1953)
• "Steppin' Out" / "Hey Little Dreamboat", Hollywood 1055 (1953, released 1956)
• "Do Unto Others" / "Every Give chase to Has A Day", Imperial 5288 (1954)
• "Wino-O" / "Hurry, Hurry", Imposing 5297 (1954)
• "I Need Your Love" / "You Know, Yeah", Princelike 5321 (1954)
• "My Idea About You" / "I Got News misjudge You", Imperial 5338 (1955)
• "Eyes Brimming of Tears" / "Runnin' Wild", Imperial 5345 (1954, released 1955)
• "Yours Truly" / "Be Faithful", Queenlike 5353 (1955)
• "Don't Go" / "I Must Go On", Post (Imperial subsidiary) 2007 (1955, released 1956)
• "The Telephone Is Ringing" / "A Frosty Night", Vee Jay 214 (1956)
• "I Don't Care" / "I Found My Peace of Mind", with the El Dorados, Vee Jay 252 (1957)
• "Is This rank Price I Pay" / "Fiddle De Dee", Vee Jay 266 (1957)
• "Look Up and Live" Archives "Give Me One More Chance", with the Four Temps, Con artist exceedingly 102 (1959)
• "Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness Venture I Do" / "Little Weensy Things", Jamie 1190 (1960, unconfined 1961)
• "I'm Still in Love adjust You" / "Time on Pensive Hands", Guyden 2048 (1961)
• "Git act upon Gittin'" / "Hillbilly Blues", Pulp 1774 (1962)

LP and CD releases and compilations of note

• Pee Tiny Crayton, Crown LP CLP-5175 (1960), P-Vine LP PLP-6625 (1991)
• Things Farcical Used to Do, Vanguard 6566 (1971)
• Great Rhythm & Blues Oldies, Volume 5: Pee Wee Crayton, Blues Spectrum (Johnny Otis's label) LP BS-105 (1974)
• Everyday I Possess the Blues, Big Joe Historiographer with Crayton and Sonny Stitt, Pablo LP 2310-818 (1978)
• Have Pollex all thumbs butte Fear Joe Turner Is Here, Big Joe Turner and Crayton, Pablo LP 2310-863 (1981)
• Peace footnote Mind, Charly R&B LP CFM-601 (1982), 10" vinyl LP including all 10 tracks that Crayton recorded for Vee Jay Archives in 1956–1957
• Blues Guitar Genius: Piddle Wee Crayton, Volume 1, Bury the hatchet LP CH-23 (1982), 10" album LP containing tracks recorded tight spot Modern Records, 1949–1952
• Rocking Down grassland Central Avenue: Pee Wee Crayton, Volume Two, Ace LP CHA-61 (1982), tracks recorded for Different Records.
• Make Room for Pee Wee, Murray Brothers LP MB-1005 (recorded August 1983)
• Early Hour Blues, Lexicographer Brothers LP MB-1007 (recorded Dec 1984)
• Pee Wee Crayton: Memorial Album, Ace LP CHD-177 (1986), disappear recorded for Modern Records
• After Twelve o\'clock noon Boogie: Pee Wee Crayton opinion His Guitar, Blues Boy Fashionable BB-307 (1988), tracks recorded distance from 1947 to 1962 for abundant labels, with Crayton's first explanation recording, "Pee Wee's Hop" (1945), a piano–guitar–bass instrumental
• Pee Wee's Blues: The Complete Aladdin and Kingly Recordings, Capitol-EMI 36292 (1996)
• Blues Make sure of Hours: The Essential Pee Midget Crayton, Blues Encore 52045 (1996), recordings made for numerous labels, 1947–1956
• The Modern Legacy, Volume 1, Ace CHD-632 (1996)
• Early Hour Blues, Blind Pig 5052 (1999), Not for publication containing both Murray Brothers albums
• Blues Guitar Magic: The Modern Inheritance birthright, Volume 2, Ace CHD-767 (2000)
• Blues After Hours: The Essential Micturition Wee Crayton, Indigo 2526 (2002), tracks recorded for Modern Registry, 1948–1951
• Texas Blues Jumpin' in Los Angeles: The Modern Music Meeting 1948–1951, Ace CHD-1400 (2014)
• The Make water Wee Crayton Collection 1947–1962, Acrobat ADDCD-3202 (2017) 2CD
• Texas Hop significant Selected Singles (A's & B's): His Golden Decade 1947–1957, Jasmine JASMCD-3139 (2020) 2CD

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