PREAMBLE TO BOOGIE KINGS
VOLUMES 1-4
By Butch Berman
I probably would have never gotten into "the combo scene" if I hadn't
seen the Fabulous Flippers at about age 15 or 16 between '64 and '65 at
Lincoln's Keen Time - at the Auld Pavilion in Antelope Park. I thought
that the Flips had invented Blue-Eyed Soul. Well, wrong. Thanks to Charlie
Burton twice , I discovered the true innovators of this genre , The Fabulous
Boogie Kings , Louisiana's R&B legends, while playing with Charlie
Burton and Rock Therapy in Minneapolis. While there, I visited their famed
record store The Oarfolkjokeopus (The Oar) and found my first Boogie Kings
LP , and to excuse the pun , totally flipped. |
This year when reforming the old Charlie
Burton band for a special holiday gig at the Zoo Bar , he brought me a
used copy of their '92 reunion video that he found while living in Austin.
Now the search was really on through the net and several changed addresses
and phone numbers, I finally located the owner and leader for 40 years (these guys date back to 1956-58 as their origin) of
this fine outfit , Mr. Ned Theall.
So with pride, I am running a series from the pen of Mr. Theall on
the story of this incredible musician's band , The Fabulous Boogie Kings.
Read on and dig it, daddy-o!
Butch Berman 2002
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