Marvin Rainwater RIP

[JimN]

September 17th.

A great country / rockabilly / rock'n'roll musician.

Famous in his own right certainly, but also for loaning his first name (as a surname) to a well-known guitarist from the UK.

[Martin Page]

Yes, you're right there Jim regarding Hank taking Marvin's name. I remember Rainwater being top-of-the-bill on Sunday Night at The London Palladium and no-one had heard of him!

Martin.

[cockroach]

I always loved his Whole Lotta Woman- learnt all the lyrics when I was about 8 or 9 years old when that record came out- often played it over the years and still sing and play it sometimes with the band nowadays!

There's black & white clip on YouTube of Marvin doing the song in the UK when he toured and did the Palladium- there is an English trio backing him- standup bass, drums and a balding older chap (a session player?) playing lead on a big cutaway Hofner archtop with a pickup on it...worth a look!

[Uncleboko]

RIP, Whole Lotta Woman with its yellow MGM label was one of those 45s I would play over and over again!

[noelford]

That was the first tune I learned to play on a plastic Ukulele I won at the Dreamland amusement park at Rhyl when I was a kid!

[Bob Withrington]

That's very sad. The very first record I bought, I think in 1958, was an EP by Marvin Rainwater, which we have on our jukebox.

Time marches on!

Bob

[chronikman-ch]

RIP, always present in my collection

[GoldenStreet]

There's black & white clip on YouTube of Marvin doing the song in the UK when he toured and did the Palladium- there is an English trio backing him- standup bass, drums and a balding older chap (a session player?) playing lead on a big cutaway Hofner archtop with a pickup on it...worth a look!

The Daily Telegraph obit refers to Johnny Duncan and his Blue Grass Boys in this context...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... water.html

Bill

[Alan Prudhoe]

Pretty sure that is the Johnny Duncan's Blue Grass Boys.
Apparently Marvin's dots were "misplaced" on the way over from the USA.
Used that one a few times myself (but not at the London Palladium)

[Derek Mowbray]

I think that the guitarist is Denny Wright who I remember playing for Lonnie Donegan and Johnny Duncan on The Six Five Special in 1957