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SoulfulDetroit.com FORUM: Archive - Beginning May 30, 2003: THOSE COOL NICKNAMES!

By R&B (138.238.41.128) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 11:20 am:

REMEMBER WHEN MANY OF THE ARTIST BACK IN THE DAY HAD NICKNAMES GIVEN TO THEM BY EITHER THE FANS OR THE DJ'S I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT GROUP NAME,BUT THE SPECIAL NICKNAMES SUCH AS..[NEVERENDING]IMPRESSIONS[CLEAN]GENE CHANDLER[THE TALL,TAN,TEASING,TALENTED,TEMPTIN]TEMPTATIONS,[SOUL BROTHER NO.1]JAMES BROWN,[THE MARVELOUS]MARVELETTES,[SUPER DUPER]SUPREMES!WHICH ONES DO YOU REMEMBER?

By Soul Sister (65.43.153.219) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 12:53 pm:

The tall, tan, tantilizing. tempting Temptations. For James Brown Mr. Dynamite, His Bad Self, The grand exaulted one, Soul Brother #1, The Godfather of Soul. Jackie Wilson Mr, Excitment! Lloyd Price Mr. Personality. The Mighty O'Jays. D.J. Frankie Crocker WWRL & WLIB in N.Y. "Hollywood, Hollywood". Otis Redding Mr. Pitiful. B.B. King King of the Blues, also Blues Boy. Wilson Pickett Wicked Pickett. The Manhattan's nicknames George Smith "Smitty", Edward Bivins "Sonny"than later "Dip"was added, Winifred Lovett "Blue", Kenneth Kelley "Kenny"than later "Wally", Richard Taylor "Richie" than later "Rip", Gerald Alston "Gerry", than later "Smut". The Jive Five 1965-1970 Eugene Pitt "Gene"or "Sam", Beatrice Best "Best", Casey Spencer "K.C.", Webster Harris "Webb". Norman Johnson "Norm", and temporary member Richard Fisher "Rip". Add some personal family names George "Smitty"Smith "Brother", Jimmy Scott (Little or Legendary)"Vic", Jackie Wilson "Sonny", Eugene Pitt "Sam". More stage names Larry James "Fat Larry"or "Dusty", Billy Stewart "Fat Boy", Sammy Ambrose "Baby". Thats enough for me, I'd like to hear from others some not mentioned here.

By medusa9e (66.73.11.62) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 01:52 pm:

Mr. Excitement was Jackie Wilson
I remember Robin Seymore used 2 say: The Super, Duper, Singing, Swinging Supremes.
Begging Tyrone Davis & (Keith Sweat)
Lady Soul, Queen of Soul, Our Most Gracious Queen: Ms. Aretha Franklin
Queen of The Blues: Ms. Dinah Washington
King of Pop: Mr. Michael Jackson
King of Rock: Elvis Presley
Al (Hot Grits) Green, Y??? I'll never know
(Little) Anthony & The Imperials

By MEL&THEN SOME (195.219.7.39) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 01:52 pm:

Swamp Dogg-Jerry Williams.
Duke of Soul-Solomon Burke.
Howlin'Wolf-Chester Burnett.
The Ice Man-Jerry Butler.
Empress of The Blues-Bessie Smith.
Angel of Harlem-Billie Holiday.
Muddy Waters-McKinley Morganfield.
Mr.Butane-James Brown.
Mr.Jealous-Little Royal.
Little Miss Sharecropper-La Vern Baker.
Hey R&B,
Can you or anyone else tell me who the artist was that was known as
Little Miss Cornshucks.
Many Thanks
mel.

By medusa9e (66.73.11.62) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 01:55 pm:

By R&B (138.238.41.118) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 02:25 pm:

HEY MEL,I WAS READING SOMETHING NOT LONG AGO ABOUT HER AND FOR THE LIFE OF ME I CAN'T REMEMBER HER NAME[DAGNABBITT]!OF COURSE WE KNOW THAT SOMEONE WILL HAVE IT.

By Eli (64.12.97.7) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 02:31 pm:

Lady Day..Billie Holiday
Mama Stringbean..Ethel Waters
Biscuit Nose..Larry Washington
G Bus .. Ronnie Baker
Beaver..Huff

More to come later.

By Soul Sister (65.43.153.219) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 03:08 pm:

"For Jimmy Scott and many other artists Little Miss Cornshucks was their favorite female vocalist, he"s trying to remember her real name, will keep you posted. She was also a favorite of Ahmet Ertigun. She sure does have a fantastic set of pipes! We just got a tape with her doing Ïn The Rain""from my good buddy Steve Nicholas. Just remembered another great Mabel Smith a.k.a. Big Maybelle. Hi Mel and then some; You got a bunch I forgot, Thanks. S.S.

By MEL&THEN SOME (212.159.49.10) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 03:45 pm:

SoulSister,
Big Maybelle,
have you heard her doing 'Black is Black'
awesome(andthensome)like everything she recorded.
Regards
mel.

By Dick Gamble (216.93.77.78) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 04:21 pm:

Little Miss Cornshucks was Mildred Cummings
Born in Dayton,Ohio
May 25th,1923
Recorded on Sunbeam records.

By MEL&THEN SOME (195.219.7.67) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 04:39 pm:

Mr.Gamble,
many,many thanks for that piece of information.
Every time I have read about Little Miss Cornshucks recently,
everything seems to not know her name.
Unless it is mentioned in other articles that have been there and I have been to weary eyed.
Shall now add above info to my files.
Very much appreciated.
mel.

By R&B (138.238.41.118) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 04:42 pm:

I TOLD YOU SOMEONE WOULD HAVE IT.JUST A WAREHOUSE OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE.

By MEL&THEN SOME9 (195.219.7.67) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 04:43 pm:

Darn tootin'R&B.

By MEL&THEN SOME (195.219.7.65) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 05:50 pm:

And was'nt
Sugar Pie Desanto
known as
Little Miss Dynamite
as well as
Lady James Brown.
mel.

By Sly fan (67.119.52.83) on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 06:40 pm:

James Brown: Soul #1, Minister Of Heavy Funk, GFS, The Creator, Mr.Dynamite..

Frankie Crocker "The Chief Rocker"

Groovy Grover: Grover Washington Jr.

Slyvester Stewart: Sly Stone or "Syl"

By Soul Sister (65.43.153.219) on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 12:41 am:

Dick Gamble: Thanks for the info, on Cornshucks! Jimmy Scott also from Ohio sang on the same "gig"with her back in the day in Cinncinati, she was also on the road with him and Caldonia's Revue for a breif while around 1944, Some areas of her frasing remind me of Jimmy's. But I feel the female vocalist that comes the closest to him in frasing on ballads is Big Maybelle, tho nobody sounds quite like a young Jimmy, his voice was pristine pure, clear as a bell with truthful uninhibited emotion layed on the lyric. Hi Melandthensome; No unfortanetly that may be the only Big Maybelle song I either don't know or can't remember, wish I did...I'll be looking for it now! Thanks,S.S.

By Eli (64.12.97.7) on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 01:00 am:

Thom Bell called me Ellsworth or Ellsworth Bunker.
On the Salsoul records I was Bobby "Electronic" Eli
Kenny Gamble was Gams
Roland Chambers was Rollo
Karl Chambers was Karlski
Bunny Sigler..Bundino or Bundino Sigalucci
Carleton Kent ..Cotton Kent
Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey who I named
Charles"Good Ol' 77" Collins who I named
Trombonist Richie Genovese..Basketball
Don Renaldo..Ren al doo
Teddy Pendergrass...Rug
John Whitehead..Toodles

By MEL&THEN SOME (195.219.7.71) on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 04:28 am:

Ma Rainey-Mother of the Blues.
Big Joe Turner-Boss of the Blues.
James Moore-Slim Harpo.
Carl Burnet-Little Caesar.
Willie Mae Thornton-Big Mama.
Cora Taylor-Ko Ko.
Riley King-B.B.(BluesBoy).
and a cracker to end with
Cab Calloway who was known as The Dean of Jive.
mel.

By Soulpuss (24.102.217.36) on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 08:39 am:

Theo "Bless my bones" Wade. Late Memphis gospel dj and promoter.

Gene "the woman handler" Chandler.

Deniece "Neecy" Williams
Benny "Bebop" Carter

By Lynn Bruce (65.60.202.214) on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 09:33 am:

Robert Kreiner--Bob Babbitt

By Ralph (209.240.198.62) on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 09:39 am:

Yeah Lynn. Better known simply as...Babbitt.

By paulie3shoes (64.12.97.7) on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 12:20 pm:

eh, paulie (over here) eh, ralph terrana ,
i calls em guido..capice?$^&*
i gess den, dat his brudder is vito, get it?guido and vito, capice??
how cum ya aint laffin, ya better faff, capice3$%^&*(

By KevGo (64.115.26.80) on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 09:31 pm:

Donald "Duck" Dunn
Florence "Flo" Ballard
Bill "Smokey" Robinson
Berry "BG" Gordy
Robert "Squirrel" Lester & Creadel "Red" Jones of the Chi-lites
Alonzo "Kool" Wells & Wesley "Wes" Wells of the Steelers
John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery
Whitney "Nippy" Houston
Emily "Cissy" Houston
Aretha "'Re" Franklin

Kevin "KevGo" Goins

By Eli (152.163.188.68) on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 09:39 pm:

"Little Sonny" Sam Brown ..The Intruders
"Big Sonny" Intruders
Eugene "Bird" Daughtry ..Intruders
Richard"Richie Rome" Di Cicco
Bert"Super Charts" De Coteaux
Granville"Granny" White..Radio DJ
Jack"The Rapper" Gibson..Radio DJ
Martha Jean"The Queen" Steinberg..Radio DJ
Paulie 3 Shoes

By Ralph (209.240.198.62) on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 09:53 pm:

Hey Paulie! I'm laughing. Actually I had a past GF who called me Guido.

By MEL&THEN SOME (212.159.54.171) on Monday, April 21, 2003 - 05:53 am:

Mel(andthensome)ho,ho.
mel.

By Uptight (24.55.6.144) on Monday, April 21, 2003 - 07:30 am:

The Count = Count Basie
The Duke = Duke Ellington
Lady Day = Billie Holiday
Satchmo = Louis Armstrong

Black Moses = Isaac Hayes
"Q" = Quincy Jones
Beej (BG) = Berry Gordy
Lady T = Teena Marie

By MEL&THEN SOME (195.219.7.96) on Monday, April 21, 2003 - 09:18 am:

James Ogden-St.Louis Jimmy.
William Weldon-Kansas City Bill.
Peter Chatman-Memphis Slim.
Minnie Douglas McCoy-Memphis Minnie.
Hudson Whittaker-Tampa Red.
Thomas A Dorsey-Georgia Tom.
Lindon Oldham-Spooner Oldham.
John Davenport-Little Willie John.
Robert Higginbotham-Tommy Tucker.
Jackie Mabley-Moms Mabley.
Jamesetta Hawkins-Etta James.
William Rice Miller-Sonny Boy Williamsom(2nd).
Aaron Walker-T-Bone Walker.
Cecil J McNeely-Big Jay McNeeley.
Saunders Terrell-Sonny Terry.
William Bunch-Peetie Wheatshaw.
Walter Jacobs-Little Walter.
Huddie Leadbetter-Leadbelly.
Peetie Wheatshaw-The Devils Son in Law&The High Sheriff of Hell.
Rufus Perryman-Speckled Red&Detroit Red.
Bobby Bland-Blue.
Lucius Venable Millinder-Lucky Millinder.
Curtis Ousley-King Curtis.
Albert Luandrew-Sunnyland Slim.
Jalacy Hawkins-Screamin'Jay Hawkins.
Overton Lemon-Smiley Lewis.
Henry Roeland 'Roy'Byrd-Professor Longhair.
Eddie Jones-Guitar Slim.
mel.

By nikki (24.46.200.124) on Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 09:42 pm:

Long Tall Lester aka Lester Foster (on Duke)

Long Tall Marvin aka Marvin Phillips (on Modern)

Little Moose and the Hunters (on SMC) aka ???

Archibald aka Leon T. Gross (Imperial label, blues singer)

Toots & the Maytals (Frederick "Toots" Hibbert)

Apologies in advance if any of these have already been mentioned!

Nikki
http://www.harmonytrain.com

By Larry (12.141.160.25) on Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 11:48 pm:

Nice list Mel(andthensome).
All these posts are great.

By Soul Sister (65.43.153.219) on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 08:02 am:

just remembered the names musicians/entourage had for him: Jamed Brown "The Man", The Boss", "JB". The name I called him: "Skates", for the way he slid across stage as if on ice.

By Wonder B (81.50.37.143) on Saturday, April 26, 2003 - 07:01 am:

Hey what about George Dr Funkenstein Clinton? LOL

By MEL&THENSOME (217.14.178.25) on Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 02:18 pm:

Heres a bit of info regards the great
Howlin' Wolf
who I mention above.

Apparantley The Wolf
was known as 'Bull Cow'before his now famous name.
It stems from the fact that the Wolf was a very large and muscular guy.

Anyway,
he used to listen to his grandfather a lot when he would always be telling him stories about all the marauding wolf packs that would be in the Mississippi area.
All these stories left a lasting impression on 'Bull Cow'
and he duly changed his name with the added 'Howling'to it as he thought this projected the right image for his style.
I also agree that it is a lot better and sounds the part.A lot better than 'Bull Cow'.

Memphis Bluesman
Johnny Shine's who revered The Wolfman was quoted as saying this after his very first meeting with him.

'I was afraid of him,
just like you would be of
some kind of beast or something........
A Guy that played like
The Wolf,
Had sold his
Soul
to the
Devil'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow,
that is some statement!

mel.

By Davie Gordon (193.122.21.42) on Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 03:34 pm:

Kev,

I didn't know Whitney Houston's nickname was
"Nippy"

In this part of Scotland that word is usually
used to describe somebody who's unreasonably
irritable. H m m ...... :-)

davie

By Vonnie (64.12.97.7) on Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 10:50 pm:

Davie,

Not only is that her nickname it is then name of her production company. I remember sitting in the office looking at the sign that read "Nippy" Productions.

Vonnie

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