Johnny Otis with Marie Adams and the Three Tons of Joy - Ma (He’s Making Eyes At Me)
Johnny Otis BiographyJohnny Otis has modeled an amazing number of contrasting musical hats over a career spanning more than half a century. Bandleader, record producer, talent scout, label owner, nightclub impresario, disc jockey, TV variety show host, author, R&B pioneer, rock & roll star -- Otis has answered to all those descriptions and quite a few more. Not bad for a Greek-American who loved jazz and R&B so fervently that he adopted the African-American culture as his own.
California-born John Veliotes changed his name to the blacker-sounding Otis when he was in his teens. Drums were his first passion -- he spent time behind the traps with the Oakland-based orchestra of Count Otis Matthews and kept time for various Midwestern swing outfits before settling in Los Angeles during the mid-’40s and joining Harlan Leonard’s Rockets, then resident at the Club Alabam.
It wasn’t long before the Alabam’s owner entreated Otis to assemble his own orchestra for house-band du
4 views
34
11
5 months ago 00:02:19 2
Bye Bye Baby
5 months ago 00:02:25 4
Johnny Otis with Marie Adams and the Three Tons of Joy - Ma (He’s Making Eyes At Me)
5 months ago 00:22:26 1
Это что, ПЛАГИАТ? Иностранцы угадывают оригиналы песен и клипов | Английский по песням
5 months ago 00:05:19 1
Speak Low
6 months ago 00:07:43 1
Daniel Castro - I’ll Play The Blues For You
6 months ago 01:29:13 1
Introducing Roy Buchanan - 1971 PBS special (complete)
6 months ago 00:07:26 1
If You Be My Baby
6 months ago 00:51:24 1
Coco Montoya – Dirty Deal (Full Album)
6 months ago 00:02:58 1
Muddy Waters - Baby Please Don’t Go - ChicagoFest 1981
6 months ago 00:04:13 4
Stereotypical United States be like...
6 months ago 00:01:44 1
The Dark Urge - Hurt - Baldur’s Gate 3
6 months ago 00:10:39 1
PEOPLE ARE TERRIFIED! - UNLEASH PURE POWER - YOU WON’T BELIEVE HIS Otis Jackson
6 months ago 03:42:26 1
Mojo Blues Band - Boogie Mix - Dimitris Lesini Greece
6 months ago 00:04:34 1
RAYE, 070 Shake - Escapism. (Official Music Video)
7 months ago 00:01:28 2
Джон Уик в Resident Evil 4
7 months ago 00:06:08 1
Autumn Song
7 months ago 01:21:01 1
CYBERPUNK 2077 THE MOVIE - Cinematic 4K
7 months ago 00:57:25 1
esperanza spalding quartet “jazz sous les pommiers 2008“
7 months ago 00:01:51 1
Early American
7 months ago 00:02:35 1
Moonshot
7 months ago 00:03:31 1
Johnnie Taylor - Steal Away (Official Visualizer)
8 months ago 00:07:13 8
Chase & Status - Alive (Official Music Video) ft. Jacob Banks
8 months ago 00:13:20 1
120 Musicians Who Died Before the Age of 60 (1959-2021)