Emotions of humanity

[The Original dpb5!]

OD...was is Lonnie McIntosh?

By 1963, it had been a long time since "All American Boy," and most people had forgotten about the label altogether. But in the summer of 1963, a young guitar player from Indiana by the name of Lonnie McIntosh had his band in King Records' Cincinnati studio backing another artist. When some studio time was left, the band recorded an instrumental version of what at the time was a fairly obscure song, Chuck Berry's "Memphis". The recording was inspired; unlike the slow tempo of Berry's version, McIntosh rolled out a snappy, danceable, and in retrospect, memorable, version of the song that Fraternity issued under the name Lonnie Mack. It made #5 on the national charts. "Memphis" was obscure no more, as other artists such as Johnny Rivers did the song in Mack's faster tempo and it became a Chuck Berry classic.