Sunday, November 08, 2015

11/8/15 Bobby Hebb in the news

Guestlisted Guitar: Tony Savarino on Eddie Van Halen and tapping

Jed Gottlieb Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Savarino can play any style. And he does on his trilogy of LPs: "Guitaring,” “Guitaresque,” and “Guitararino.” On them the hotshot tears into classic stuff with equal amounts of reverence, pluck and cheek. He lays down Bobby Hebb's “Sunny” with lounge cool (a little Wes Montgomery in there?), carves up the Ventures' arrangement of Tchaikovsky and twists Duke Ellington's “Caravan” into a Van Halen/Yngwie Malmsteen hydra.

Tony Savarino  "Sunny" Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsO_kzKVo88

BOBBY HEBB MENTIONED IN NOV. 6, 2015 ARTICLE ON JAY AND THE TECHNIQUES

correction: Jerry Ross produced Bobby Hebb, 
he was discovered by Ben Tucker. 
We love Jerry Ross, he's one of the greatest record producers of all time, however I believe the late Ben Tucker, bassist for Herbie Mann, Art Pepper and others "discovered" the song "Sunny" - Owen Bradley and John Rich had worked with Hebb in the early days.  Respectfully, Joe VIglione.
  1. Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie by Jay and the Techniques
In the mid-sixties Philadelphia producer Jerry Ross discovered and signed Jay and the Techniques, an R&B band fronted by singer Jay Proctor. Ross, who had also discovered Bobby Hebb (Sunny), offered the group a new song: Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie.
Hebb had already passed on the tune. “I’m raw off the street, I don’t know anything about music, so I just opened my mouth and whatever came out, came out,” Proctor recalled in Carolina Beach Music From the ’60s to the ’80s. “Well, whatever came out pleased him, so we got to release it.”
Ross brought in a team of crack session musicians and backup singers that included Melba Moore, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Proctor was the only member of the Techniques allowed to perform. “Jerry used session musicians on everything we did. The band was the road group, and they never went in the studio. I asked Jerry to use them, but he just felt they weren’t good enough because they didn’t read music well.”

  1. Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie by Jay and the Techniques
In the mid-sixties Philadelphia producer Jerry Ross discovered and signed Jay and the Techniques, an R&B band fronted by singer Jay Proctor. Ross, who had also discovered Bobby Hebb (Sunny), offered the group a new song: Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie.
Hebb had already passed on the tune. “I’m raw off the street, I don’t know anything about music, so I just opened my mouth and whatever came out, came out,” Proctor recalled in Carolina Beach Music From the ’60s to the ’80s. “Well, whatever came out pleased him, so we got to release it.”
Ross brought in a team of crack session musicians and backup singers that included Melba Moore, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Proctor was the only member of the Techniques allowed to perform. “Jerry used session musicians on everything we did. The band was the road group, and they never went in the studio. I asked Jerry to use them, but he just felt they weren’t good enough because they didn’t read music well.”
- See more at: http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2015/11/06/top-11-songs-about-food/#sthash.AB5TyZM4.dpuf



Story image for bobby hebb sunny from Badische Zeitung

Musik von Marsch bis Mambo

Badische Zeitung-Oct 25, 2015
... um danach mit dem von Naohiro Iwai für Blasmusik bearbeiteten Bobby-Hebb-Soulsong-Evergreen "Sunny" ihr Publikum zu begeistern, das ...
Story image for bobby hebb sunny from Billboard

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Billboard-Aug 28, 2015
While “Sunny," like “Summer in the City,” seemed the perfect summer song, Hebb actually wrote it as a eulogy to his slain brother. .... industrial mill towns in the North of England,” Hollies drummer Bobby Elliott says of the song ...

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