Альбомы исполнителя
Sentimental Journey
1973 · альбом
Boots Randolph Plays The Great Hits Of Today
1972 · альбом
Best Of Boots Randolph
1997 · альбом
Boots Randolph Live
1992 · альбом
Homer Louis Randolph, III
1971 · альбом
Yakety Revisited
1970 · альбом
Boots With Brass
1970 · альбом
Boots Randolph's Greatest Hits
1976 · сборник
Boots Randolph - Just a Minute!
2023 · альбом
Guest Star Records Presents Boots Randolph
2023 · альбом
Christmas Sax: Relaxing Christmas Songs
2013 · альбом
"Yakety Sax"- Theme from the "Benny Hill Show"
2012 · сингл
The Girl From Ipanema
2012 · альбом
Christmas at Boot's Place
2011 · альбом
Yakety Sax! The Very Best Of
2011 · сборник
The World Of Boots Randolph
2010 · альбом
Some Favorite Songs
2009 · альбом
The Very Best Of Boots Randolph
2007 · сборник
A Whole New Ballgame
2007 · альбом
Hit Boots 1970
1970 · альбом
Sunday Sax
1968 · альбом
The Sound of Boots
1968 · альбом
Boots and Stockings
1969 · альбом
With Love: The Seductive Sax of Boots Randolph
1969 · альбом
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Биография
Tenor saxophonist Boots Randolph was an important contributor to the Nashville sound, the set of pop-flavored textures that dominated country music in the late '50s and early '60s. He was born in Paducah, KY, but grew up in small-town Cadiz, in Trigg County. Born Homer Louis Randolph III, he acquired the nickname "Boots" in childhood from his brother Bob. Randolph began playing the trombone in school and learned several other instruments, but by the time he was 16 he had begun to focus seriously on the sax. He honed his chops as a member of the U.S. Army Band during World War II. After the war, Randolph returned home and performed semi-professionally for some years around Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. In the late '50s, Jethro Burns heard him play and suggested he move to Nashville. Burns introduced Randolph to Chet Atkins, who signed him to the RCA label. Randolph also quickly made the acquaintance of Atkins rival Owen Bradley and performed on many recordings Bradley helmed as producer. Nashville's new corps of session musicians spent its leisure time in the Printer's Alley section of the city's downtown, an actual alley (between First and Second avenues) that offered entrance to various basement barrooms, and Randolph became one of the group. Like other Nashville players, he took enthusiastically to jazz and rock & roll in addition to country music. One single, the 1963 instrumental "Yakety Sax," showed Randolph putting all these influences together and delivering an extremely catchy tune; it became his only real hit. But Randolph was a consistent seller of LP albums (with 13 charted releases) in the 1960s and 1970s; offering pleasant saxophone covers of material from various genres of music, he became a counterpart to Atkins on guitar and Floyd Cramer on piano. He moved from RCA to the Monument label in 1966. For well over a decade, in addition, he averaged 200-300 studio sessions a year on recordings made by others. The saxophone heard on Elvis Presley's later records is likely to be Randolph's. In 1977, Randolph opened a successful club of his own in Printer's Alley; it endured into the 1990s and spawned another club in the Opryland U.S.A. area. Randolph remained active as an entertainer into the 2000s, and in 1994 the original Yakety Sax album was admitted into the unofficial country canon; it was reissued by Germany's Bear Family label. Randolph suffered a brain hemorrhage in late June 2007 and remained in a coma until his passing at the age of 80 on July 3, 2007. ~ James Manheim, Rovi