Roy Newman & His Boys

Roy Newman Born 12 November 1899 In Dallas Texas † 23 February 1981 Was An American Country Musician On The Clarinet. Even Though He Was Not One Of The Best Known Newman Is Considered Important For The Development Of Western Swing With Roy Newman & His Boys
About Roy Newman’s Life Is Not Much Known. Newman Was According To Sources Was Born Either 1899 Or 1900 In Dallas Texas. He Started His Career In The Early 1930s And Made Recordings For Vocalion Records In 1934. Newman Was One Of The First Musicians To Blend Rural Hillbilly Music With Popular Jazz And Also Recorded The So Called Western Swing Before Bob Wills.
Between 1934 And 1939 Newman And The Boys Repertoire Ranged From Standards As Corrine Corinna To Interpretations Of The Match Box Blues Kansas City Blues Or The Down Hearted Blues. Everybody’s Tryin ‘To Be My Baby Later Famous As A Cover Of Carl Perkins And The Beatles Was Believed Newman’s Original. Nowadays However It Is Proved That This Is False Because In 1936 Two Years Before Recording Newman Rex Griffin Already Played The Title Which Is Probably More Likely The Original. Successful Singles By Newman And His Band Were Also With The Devil Devil And I Can Not Dance I Got Ants In My Pants .
By 1938 Newman & The Boys Had The Following Members In Addition To Newman Himself Gene Sullivan Voice Holly Horton Clarinet Cecil Brower Fiddle Jim Boyd Guitar Walter Circe Banjo And Ish Irwin Bass And Art Davis Fiddle / Vocals Thurman Neal Fiddle Randall “Buddy” Neal Guitar Ramon Dearman Earl Brown Guitar / Vocals Ray Lackland Vocals And Buddy Harris Vocals But He Appears Only As A Session Musician. After 1939 No New Recordings Of Newman Are Known. Only Some Of His Vocalion Conqueror Records And Columbia Records Were Re-Released In The 1940s. Roy Newman Died In 1981 At The Age Of 81. read less