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GONE ALL STARS

“7-11”

Gone 5016

(Perez Prado)

No.30    March 3, 1958

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The Gone All Stars was a non de plume for the Buddy Lucas Band.   Buddy and the boys, sometimes called

the Wigglers, were the house band at George Goldner’s Big Apple-based Rama/Gee/End/Gone stable of

labels.   The session in question that produced the Perez Prado take-off was reportedly an unintended jam.

The honker did feature Buddy on sax and probaby was “produced” by Alan Freed, who obligingly rode the

number on his WINS radio program like the disk was fitted with a velvet saddle.   Apparently, a lone follow-

up single, under the Gone All-Stars banner, was distributed–“The Gee Gee Walk”–though a highly sought

after EP–a 4-track, then the extended currency of the times–was soon after issued.

Buddy began his recording career fronting the house band at Jerry Blaine’s Jubilee label in 1951.   The

following year, backing Edna McGriff with his Band of Tomorrow, Buddy–in accompaniment–charted on

Billboard’s R&B lists with “Heavenly Father.”   Later that same year, Buddy’s band sold well in the Afro-

American communities with a rendering on “Diane.”   While Buddy and some semblance of his band-boys

cut tracks for Vim, Tru Sound, Caprice, Lawn and late in the ’60s a 12-incher for United Artist, nuthing

further crashed a chart.