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Junior Parker Songs

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Herman "Junior" Parker (May 27, 1932 - November 18, 1971) was an American Memphis blues singer and musician. He is best remembered for his unique voice, which has been described as "honeyed," and "velvet-smooth". He was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001. Parker began his career in the early 1950s with three successful songs: "Feelin' Good" (which reached # 5 on the US Billboard R&B chart), "Love My Baby," and "Mystery Train". Parker toured with Bobby Bland and Johnny Ace and joined Duke Records. He continued to have a string of hits on the R&B chart, including the smooth "Next Time You See Me" (1957); re-makes of Roosevelt Sykes' song "Driving Wheel" (1961), Robert Johnson's "Sweet Home Chicago", Guitar Slim's "The Things That I Used to Do" (1963), and Don Robey's "Mother-in-Law Blues" (1956); plus his own "Stand by Me" (1961). His success was limited after he left Duke in 1966. He recorded for various labels, including Mercury, Blue Rock, Minit, and Capitol.

Below is a list of Junior Parker songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Duke 357
chart position: Cashbox RandB #24
written by: Deadric Malone
Junior Parker Foxy Devil
1962 Duke
2 record label: Duke 394
chart position: Cashbox RandB #28
written by: Malone, Parker
comments: [soul blues]
Junior Parker These Kind Of Blues
1965 Duke
3 record label: Mercury 72620
chart position: Cashbox RandB #32
written by: P. Woods
album: Like It Is
comments: [Memphis blues]
Junior Parker Just Like A Fish
1966 Mercury
4 record label: Duke 357
chart position: Cashbox RandB #34
written by: Herman Parker
album: Driving Wheel
comments: [soul blues]
Junior Parker Someone Somewhere
1963 Duke
5 record label: Duke 398
chart position: Cashbox R&B #38, US #128
written by: Don Robey (as Deadric Malone)
Junior Parker Goodbye Little Girl
1966 Duke
6 record label: Duke 389
chart position: RandB #36
written by: Harold Burrage
Junior Parker Crying for My Baby
1965 Duke
7 record label: Capitol 2997
chart position: RandB #48, US #114
written by: Allen Jones (as Allen A. Jones) and Mickey Gregory
Junior Parker Drownin' on Dry Land
1971 Capitol
8 record label: Duke 351
chart position: Cashbox RandB #45
written by: D. Malone
Junior Parker I Feel Alright Again
1962 Duke
9 record label: Mercury 72620
chart position: Cashbox RandB #47
written by: P. Mayfield
album: Like It Is
comments: [blues]
Junior Parker Baby Please
1966 Mercury
-- record label: Capitol 2857
written by: Van Leer, Moore, Parker
album: The Outside Man
comments: [soul blues]
Junior Parker The Outside Man
1970 Capitol




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