EDDIE MACK

Eddie Mack , actually Mack Edmondson (around 1920 - after 1950) was an American rhythm and blues and blues singer who enjoyed his greatest popularity around 1950 in Brooklyn as a blues shouter .

Mack, who came from Beaumont (Texas) , was part of the Brooklyn blues scene of the late 1940s and early 50s. He worked u. a. with the orchestras of Cootie Williams (in which he replaced Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson , inter alia in Things Is not What They Used to Be , 1947), Bobby Smith ( Child Lovin 'Daddy , Apollo # 414) and Lucky Millinder , 

In his recordings, from 1949 for Apollo Records ( Hoot and Holler Saturday Night / Cool Mama , 1950, # 417) and from 1952 for Savoy Records ( Key Hole Blues , # 45-853), If You Want Home to Baby, Heart Throbbing Blues (1949), and Last Hour Blues (Savoy, 1952), musicians such as Willis Jackson , Bill Jennings , Haywood Henry , René Hall , Grachan Moncur II , Bobby Donaldson, and Mickey Baker appeared . In 1952, he recorded for King Records under his own name ( Everybody Loves a Fat Man [and Oh How a Fat Man Can Love / Loud Mouth Lucy] ); however, the recordings, arrangements by Leroy Kirkland , remained unpublished. Mack's best-known titles included You Got to Pay Those Dues / Mercenary Papa (1949, with Cootie Williams, Mercury # 8168) and the cover versions of Tennessee Ernie Ford's Shotgun Boogie  and Merle Travis ' Divorce Me COD