Everybody Dance the Honky Tonk

Everybody Dance the Honky Tonk is an album by American organist Bill Doggett released by the King label in 1956.

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)" – 3:04
"Honky Tonk " – 2:36
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" – 2:54
"Afternoon Jump" – 2:51
"Peacock Alley" – 2:36
"Big Boy" – 3:08
"Slow Walk" – 2:34
"Nothin' Yet" – 3:41
"When Your Lover Has Gone" – 2:44
"Honky Tonk Number Three" – 2:44
"Leaps and Bounds" – 5:30

Recorded in Cincinnati, OH on May 19, 1954, September 18, 1956, October 12, 1956 and October 29, 1956, and New York City, NY on January 12, 1956, June 16, 1956

Personnel

Source:

Bill Doggett – organ
Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
Irving "Skinny" Brown – tenor saxophone
Clifford Bush, Billy Butler, John Faire – guitar
Edwyn Conley, Al Lucas, Carl Pruitt, Clarence Mack - bass
Shep Shepherd – drums
Tommy Brown – vocals, maracas, claves