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Clarence Williams (October 8, 1898 – November 6, 1965) was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher.
Williams was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana, ran away from home at age 12 to join Billy Kersand's Traveling Minstrel Show, then moved to New Orleans. At first Williams worked shining shoes and doing odd jobs, but soon became known as a singer and master of ceremonies. By the early 1910s he was a well regarded local entertainer also playing piano, and was composing new tunes by 1913. Williams was a good business man and worked arranging and managing entertainment at the local African-American vaudeville theater as well as various saloons and dance halls around Rampart Street, and clubs and houses in Storyville.
Williams started a music publishing business with violinist/bandleader Armand J. Piron 1915, which by the 1920's was the leading African-American owned music publisher in the country. He toured briefly with W.C. Handy, set up a publishing office in Chicago, then settled in New York in the early 1920s. In 1921 he married blues singer and stage actress Eva Taylor with whom he would frequently perform. He supervised African-American recordings (Race Series) for New York offices of Okeh phonograph company in the 1920s; He was responsible for recruiting many of the artists who performed on that label. He also recorded extensively, leading studio bands frequently for OKeh, Columbia and occasionally other record labels (He was the recording director for the short-lived QRS Records label in 1928). He mostly used Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings for his hot orchestra sides and Clarence Williams' Washboard Five for his washboard sides. He also produced and participated in early recordings by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith and many others. The legendary King Oliver played cornet on a number of Williams' late 1920's recordings.
In 1933, he signed to the Vocalion label and recorded quite a number of popular recordings, mostly featuring washboard percussion, through 1935.
In 1943 Williams sold his extensive back-catalogue of tunes to Decca Records for $50,000 and retired, but then bought a bargain used goods store which he ran to keep himself busy. Williams died in Queens, New York City in 1965 and was interred in Saint Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York. On her passing in 1977, his wife was interred next to him. Their grandson is Clarence Williams III.
Clarence Williams' name appears as composer or co-composer on numerous tunes, including a number which by Williams' own admission were written by others but which Williams bought all rights to outright, as was a common practice in the music publishing business at the time. Clarence Williams hits include "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home", "Royal Garden Blues", "Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do", "Shout, Sister, Shout" and many others.
In 1970, Clarence Williams was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Clarence Williams (October 8, 1898 – November 6, 1965) was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher.
Williams was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana, ran away from home at age 12 to join Billy Kersand's Traveling Minstrel Show, then moved to New Orleans. At first Williams worked shining shoes and doing odd jobs, but soon became known as a singer and master of ceremonies. By the early 1910s he was a well regarded local entertainer also playing piano, and was composing new tunes by 1913. Williams was a good business man and worked arranging and managing entertainment at the local African-American vaudeville theater as well as various saloons and dance halls around Rampart Street, and clubs and houses in Storyville.
Williams started a music publishing business with violinist/bandleader Armand J. Piron 1915, which by the 1920's was the leading African-American owned music publisher in the country. He toured briefly with W.C. Handy, set up a publishing office in Chicago, then settled in New York in the early 1920s. In 1921 he married blues singer and stage actress Eva Taylor with whom he would frequently perform. He supervised African-American recordings (Race Series) for New York offices of Okeh phonograph company in the 1920s; He was responsible for recruiting many of the artists who performed on that label. He also recorded extensively, leading studio bands frequently for OKeh, Columbia and occasionally other record labels (He was the recording director for the short-lived QRS Records label in 1928). He mostly used Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings for his hot orchestra sides and Clarence Williams' Washboard Five for his washboard sides. He also produced and participated in early recordings by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith and many others. The legendary King Oliver played cornet on a number of Williams' late 1920's recordings.
In 1933, he signed to the Vocalion label and recorded quite a number of popular recordings, mostly featuring washboard percussion, through 1935.
In 1943 Williams sold his extensive back-catalogue of tunes to Decca Records for $50,000 and retired, but then bought a bargain used goods store which he ran to keep himself busy. Williams died in Queens, New York City in 1965 and was interred in Saint Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York. On her passing in 1977, his wife was interred next to him. Their grandson is Clarence Williams III.
Clarence Williams' name appears as composer or co-composer on numerous tunes, including a number which by Williams' own admission were written by others but which Williams bought all rights to outright, as was a common practice in the music publishing business at the time. Clarence Williams hits include "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home", "Royal Garden Blues", "Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do", "Shout, Sister, Shout" and many others.
In 1970, Clarence Williams was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
External links
- Clarence Williams on RedHotJazz.com; biography with photos and ram files of vintage recordings
- Clarence Williams by Tom Morgan
- Clarence Williams at the Internet Broadway Database
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Clarence Williams
January 25 1955
Oakley, SC
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January 25 1955
Oakley, SC
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Clarence Williams (defensive lineman)
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Brazoria, Texas
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September 3 1946
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