Since its 1966 launch it has been an irresistible name to the dance flooring: “All people get in your toes… we doin’ a dance that may’t be beat!” The track – ‘Barefootin”; the singer – Robert Parker. Sadly Parker died on Sunday, 19th January in New Orleans. Experiences say it was “demise from pure causes”. He was 89.
Born in New Orleans in 1930, Robert Parker started his music profession because the sax participant in Professor Longhair’s band. It is his sax on the 1949 hit ‘Mardi Gras In New Orleans’. Happy with his metropolis, Robert was completely satisfied to work the Crescent Metropolis music circuit, recurrently collaborating with folks like Fat Domino, Irma Thomas, Ernie Ok-Doe, Frankie Ford and Huey ‘Piano’ Smith. In 1950 he had an area solo hit with the Ron recoding of ‘All Evening Lengthy’ – a rockin instrumental. In 1966 he stepped up as a singer and recorded the fantastic ‘Barefootin” for the small Nola label which broke out of New Orleans to grow to be a worldwide smash – coated numerous instances and nonetheless performed in golf equipment and on the oldies radio stations…. and no surprise… it’s very infectious and at all times sounds important! Parker’s solely different hit was ‘Tip Toe’ although UK R&B followers have fond reminiscences of his ‘Let’s Go Child’ and the instrumental ‘Walkin” – two slabs of the traditional New Orleans sound. Certainly Parker stayed in New Orleans and although by no means an enormous star, he was a mainstay on the native scene performing in golf equipment proper into his 80s… usually singing ‘Barefootin” with out his footwear and socks! He is survived by his spouse, Carolyn, a number of kids and grandchildren.
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