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          Wynonie Harris was born in August of in Omaha, NE. At the age of 16 Harris dropped out of high school and had a child with girlfriend Naomi Henderson....

          WYNONIE HARRIS

          Born 24 August 1915, Omaha, Nebraska
          Died 14 June 1969, Los Angeles, California

          R & B singer.

          Born in Omaha, Harris parlayed a natural talent for dancing into a series of gigs at local bars, where he began singing.

        1. Born in Omaha, Harris parlayed a natural talent for dancing into a series of gigs at local bars, where he began singing.
        2. There is only one biography of Wynonie Harris that I know of — Rock Mr Blues by Tony Collins — and that is out of print, though you can pick.
        3. Wynonie Harris was born in August of in Omaha, NE. At the age of 16 Harris dropped out of high school and had a child with girlfriend Naomi Henderson.
        4. Wynonie Harris (August 24, – June 14, ), born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring.
        5. When Wynonie Harris' version of Good Rocking Tonight was cut in December of and hit the charts in , it started a revolution.

          6. Nicknamed “Mr. Blues”.

          Black music has known a vast number of larger than life characters. Few came larger than Wynonie Harris, the loud-talking, fast-living, womanising, hard-drinking and witty son of a gun. But he was a true original and arguably the greatest of the blues shouters.

          Hmmm Meanwhile every dog will have his day, yes Wynonie?

          From 1948 until 1952 he was one of the biggest selling recording artists in the jukebox dominated rhythm and blues market.

          Wynonie Harris was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to an unwed 15-year old mother and an American Indian father that he saw only once in his life.

          Despite accounts that Harris spent two years as a pre-med student at Creighton University, he was actually a high-school dropout who broke into showbiz as a dancer and a club emcee. He sang in Omaha nightclubs and was a bit of a local celebrity, but it wasn’t until he moved to Los Angeles in 1940 that his musical career began to gai