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Legendary \u0091Secret Agent Man\u0092 Johnny Rivers Plans First New York Concert in 25 Years, as Hi-Fidelity Music Presents:
JOHNNY RIVERS Comes Home – “A 70th Birthday Celebration”<\/p>\n
Legendary \u0091Secret Agent Man\u0092 Johnny Rivers Plans First New York Concert in 25 Years, as Hi-Fidelity Music Presents:
JOHNNY RIVERS Comes Home – “A 70th Birthday Celebration”<\/p>\n
Backed By An All-Star Band featuring JIMMY VIVINO, WILL LEE + RICH PAGANO from THE FAB FAUX<\/p>\n
B.B. King Blues Club & Grill September 28, 2012 <\/p>\n
The legendary \u0091Secret Agent Man\u0092 Johnny Rivers has confirmed his first New York City Concert in over 25 years, for September 28th at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill. The special event, JOHNNY RIVERS Comes Home \u0096 \u0093A 70th Birthday Celebration,\u0094 is a presentation of Hi-Fidelity Music and will feature an All-Star Band joining Rivers, including Will Lee, Jimmy Vivino and Rich Pagano from The Fab Faux. <\/p>\n
With 17 Gold records, 29 chart hits, two Grammy Awards and more than 30 million records sold, Johnny Rivers is a remarkable American rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. His styles include folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock ‘n’ roll songs and some original material. Rivers’ greatest success came in the mid- to late-1960s with a string of hit songs (including the #1 hit “Poor Side of Town”, “Summer Rain”, and “Secret Agent Man”), but he has continued to record and perform to the present.<\/p>\n
His major hits include Memphis, Maybelline, Mountain of Love, Seventh Son, Secret Agent Man, Poor Side of Town, Baby, I Need Your Lovin’, Rockin’ Pneumonia – Boogie Woogie Flu & Slow Dancin’. Watch this archival footage of Winters performing \u0091Secret Agent Man\u0092: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V9RMrva2nvQ&feature=player_embedded# !<\/p>\n
TICKET INFORMATION:
JOHNNY RIVERS Comes Home – “A 70th Birthday Celebration”
Backed By An All-Star Band featuring JIMMY VIVINO, WILL LEE + RICH PAGANO from THE FAB FAUX
B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
237 West 42 St (212) 997-4144
September 28, 2012
Showtime @ 8:00PM
Doors Open @ 6:00PM
Tickets $30.00 in advance, $38.00 day of show
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\u0091Three fifths of The Fab Faux\u0092 will join Rivers — Will Lee of Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Vivino, band leader of the new \u0091Conan\u0092 Show, and Rich Pagano, who has performed with Rosanne Cash, Ray Davies and released a solo effort Blurt Magazine described as \u0093one of the best albums of 2009.\u0094<\/p>\n
Bob Dylan Praises Johnny Rivers in \u0091Chronicles, Volume One\u0092:
\u0093Of all the versions of my recorded songs, the Johnny Rivers one was my favorite. It was obvious that we were from the same side of town, had been read the same citations, came from the same musical family and were cut from the same cloth. When I listened to Johnny\u0092s version of \u0093Positively 4th Street,\u0094 I liked his version better than mine. I listened to it over and over again. Most of the cover versions of my songs seemed to take them out into left field somewhere, but Rivers\u0092s version had the mandate down\u0097the attitude and melodic sense to complete and surpass even the feeling that I had put into it. It shouldn\u0092t have surprised me, though. He had done the same thing with \u0093Maybellene \u0094 and \u0093Memphis,\u0094 two Chuck Berry songs. When I heard Johnny sing my song, it was obvious that life had the same external grip on him as it did on me.\u0094\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Johnny Rivers…
17 Gold records * 29 chart hits * Two Grammy Awards, * Sold more than 30 million records * The singer\/songwriter\/producer continues to perform before sell- out crowds worldwide. *The \u0093Secret Agent Man\u0094 has many other accomplishments and has made significant contributions to the history of rock \u0091n roll.<\/p>\n
\u0095 Born in New York City, grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
\u0095 Began playing professionally at age 14 when he formed his first band, \u0093Johnny and The Spades.\u0094
\u0095 Recorded his first single 1957 for Suede Records of Natchez, MS, at Cosmos Studios in New Orleans. \u0093Hey Little Girl\u0094 became a regional chart hit.
\u0095 In late 1957 at age 15, Johnny Ramistella went back to New York City where he met the legendary D.J. Alan Freed, who got him a record deal with Gone Records and changed his last name to Rivers.
\u0095 In 1958, while performing on the \u0093Louisiana Hayride\u0094 in Shreveport, LA, Rivers was introduced to Ricky Nelson\u0092s guitar player James Burton, who took a song Rivers wrote, \u0093I\u0092ll Make Believe,\u0094 back to Hollywood and played it for Nelson who recorded it. Rivers hopped a plane from New Orleans to Los Angeles where he hooked up with Burton, met Ricky Nelson and struck up a friendship.
\u0095 In 1959, Rivers met southern comedian Brother Dave Gardner, who introduced him to Hank Williams\u0092 widow Audrey. Audrey invited Rivers to Nashville where he met Phil Everly and a young Roger Miller. Audrey got Rivers a record deal with MGM and recorded two singles, \u0093Darling Talk to Me\u0094 and \u0093The Customary Thing.\u0094 Audrey also introduced young Rivers to the legendary Carl Perkins and Sam Phillips.
\u0095 In the early 1960\u0092s, Rivers returned to Hollywood where he hooked up with Jimmy Bowen, Glen Campbell and Capitol Records Producer Nick Venet. While under Jimmy Bowen\u0092s wing, Rivers recorded his first album, \u0093The Sensational Johnny Rivers,\u0094 for Capitol, produced by Venet. The album, released in late 1962, only received regional airplay.
\u0095 While performing at the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas in 1963, Rivers met New Orleans legend Louis Prima, who booked him at the Sahara Hotel in Lake Tahoe, then on to the \u0093Dream Room\u0094 on Bourbon Street.
\u0095 In January of 1964, Rivers opened the now world-famous Whisky \u03b0 Go Go, where he recorded \u0093Johnny Rivers Live at the Whisky \u03b0 Go Go\u0094 and released his first #1 single \u0093Memphis.\u0094 This ushered in the decade known as The Go Go Generation.
\u0095 In 1965, at the session for \u0093Mountain of Love\u0094 produced by Lou Adler, Rivers brought together for the first time the rhythm section who would define the west Coast Sound of the 60\u0092s: Hal Blaine, Joe Osborn and Larry Knechtel.
\u0095 By 1966, with numerous hit albums and singles on Imperial Records, Rivers founded Soul City Records and Rivers Music Publishing.
\u0095 Rivers then signed The Fifth Dimension to Soul City and an unknown tunesmith, Jimmy Webb to Rivers Music.
\u0095 In 1966 , after writing and recording his #1 hit, \u0093Poor Side of Town,\u0094 Rivers produced \u0093Up, Up and Way,\u0094 which won 2 Grammys for Record and Song of the Year (1967).
\u0095 Gave Glen Campbell the Webb song \u0093By the Time I Get to Phoenix,\u0094 which became Campbell\u0092s first #1 country hit.
\u0095 During this period, Rivers appeared on The Red Skelton Show, American Bandstand, The Hollywood Palace with Judy Garland, The Milton Berle Special with Lucille Ball, and The Ed Sullivan Show, among others.
\u0095 In 1967 Rivers, along with Lou Adler, John Phillips and Paul Simon, founded The Monterey Pop Festival, where Rivers also performed.
\u0095 In 1968, Rivers produced one of his finest albums, \u0093Realization,\u0094 which featured the hit \u0093Summer Rain.\u0094
\u0095 Rivers also scored with two Motown classics: \u0093Baby, I Need Your Lovin\u0092\u0094 and \u0093Tracks of My Tears.\u0094
\u0095 In the 1970\u0092s, he returned with \u0093Rockin\u0092 Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu,\u0094 \u0093Blue Suede Shoes,\u0094 \u0093Help Me, Rhonda\u0094 (which featured Brian Wilson on vocals) and his classic \u0093Slow Dancin\u0092 (Swayin\u0092 to the Music).\u0094
\u0095 While hosting one of the weekly \u0093Midnight Special\u0094 television shows, Rivers brought Wolfman Jack on as his personal guest, after which Wolfman became the show\u0092s host for 12 years.
\u0095 \u0093Secret Agent Man\u0094 was featured in the popular hit film Austin Powers and Bowfinger (starring Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy).
\u0095 Occasionally, Rivers performs with symphony orchestras throughout the U.S. including Austin, TX, Baton Rouge, LA, Pensacola FL, Louisville, KY and Jackson, TN.
\u0095 Back in 1991, while touring with the E-Street Band, they were joined by President Clinton at his Inaugural Ball, where the President jammed with the group on his saxophone.
\u0095 In his best selling book, \u0093Chronicles, Vol. One,\u0094 Bob Dylan said, \u0093Of all the versions of my recorded songs, the Johnny Rivers one was my favorite … When I listened to Johnny\u0092s version of \u0093Positively 4th Street,\u0094 I liked his version better than mine.\u0094
\u0095 Johnny\u0092s recording of \u0093Positively 4th Street\u0094 is featured in the Warner Brothers film, Lucky You, starring Drew Barrymore, Eric Bana and Robert Duvall. The Sony\/BMG soundtrack will also feature songs by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Kris Kristofferson, and Bonnie Raitt.
\u0095 \u0093Secret Agent Man: The Ultimate Johnny Rivers Anthology\u0094 (2 CD set), a joint venture between Shout!Factory and Soul City Records, entered at #1 in online sales, July 2006, two months prior to the September 2006 store release date. ( www.ccmusic.com )<\/p>\n
JOHNNY RIVERS – Chart Hits Include:
Memphis
Maybelline
Mountain of Love
Midnight Special
Seventh Son
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Secret Agent Man
Poor Side of Town
Baby, I Need Your Lovin\u0092
Tracks of My Tears
Summer Rain
Look to Your Soul
Rockin\u0092 Pneumonia \u0096 Boogie Woogie Flu
Sea Cruise
Blue Suede Shoes
Help Me Rhonda
Slow Dancin\u0092
Curious Mind<\/p>\n
Source: http:\/\/www.johnnyrivers.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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