Everybody Dance the Honky Tonk is an album by American organist Bill Doggett released by the King label in 1956.Both Sides Now: King/Federal/DeLuxe Discography, Part 2: Main LP Series 500-599 accessed July 1, 2019LP Discography: Bill Doggett accessed July 1, 2019King Records Discography: King LP531 accessed July 1, 2019
Reception
AllMusic reviewer Bill Dahl stated "This hugely influential jazz-laced R&B quartet plays their classic two-part instrumentals and several more groovers".
Track listing "Honky Tonk (Part 1)" (Bill Doggett, Billy Butler, Clifford Scott, Shep Shepherd) – 3:04 "Honky Tonk (Part 2)" (Doggett, Butler, Scott, Shepherd) – 2:36 "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 2:54 "Afternoon Jump" (B. Red Ellis) – 2:51 "Peacock Alley" (Butler) – 2:36 "Big Boy" (Bill Jennings) – 3:08 "Slow Walk" (Sil Austin) – 2:34 "Nothin' Yet" (Ellis) – 3:41 "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 2:44 "Honky Tonk Number Three" (Doggett, Butler, Scott, Shepherd) – 2:44 "Leaps and Bounds" (Scott, Ellis, Butler, Shepherd) – 5:30 Recorded in Cincinnati, OH on May 19, 1954 (track 4), September 18, 1956 (track 11), October 12, 1956 (tracks 5 & 10) and October 29, 1956 (tracks 6–8), and New York City, NY on January 12, 1956 (track 9), June 16, 1956 (tracks 1–3)
Personnel
Source: Bill Doggett – organ Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone (tracks 1–3 & 5–11) Irving "Skinny" Brown – tenor saxophone (track 4) Clifford Bush (track 4), Billy Butler (tracks 1–3 & 5–11), John Faire (tracks 5–8, 10 & 11) – guitar Edwyn Conley (tracks 5–8 & 10), Al Lucas (track 9), Carl Pruitt (tracks 1–3), Clarence Mack (track 4) - bass Shep Shepherd – drums Tommy Brown – vocals, maracas, claves (tracks 6–8)
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