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  Ininstrumentals

  …charts in the mid-1950s, with Bill Doggett’s organ- and saxophone-driven “Honky Tonk” (1956) leading the way. Thereafter instrumental records regularly reached number one. Link Wray’s “Rumble” and the Champs’ “Tequila” hit it big in 1958, the year Duane Eddy began a string of hits featuring his trademark twang guitar sound.…

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King Records

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  InKing Records in the Queen City

  …Earl Bostic (alto sax) and Bill Doggett (organ), blues shouters Wynonie Harris and Roy Brown, blues ballad singers Little Esther and Little Willie John, and vocal groups Billy Ward and the Dominoes (featuring first Clyde McPhatter and later Jackie Wilson) and Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. But by far the…

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