Saunders King

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Swinging All Day 00:00 Tools
Swingin' 00:00 Tools
Something's Worrying Me 00:00 Tools
Imagination 00:00 Tools
Swingin 00:00 Tools
Empty Bedroom Blues 00:00 Tools
Going Mad 00:00 Tools
Quit Hangin' Around Me 00:00 Tools
Read The Good Book 00:00 Tools
Long Long Time 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
My Close Friend 00:00 Tools
Auf Wiedersehn, My Dear 00:00 Tools
Big Fat Butterfly 00:00 Tools
Blues About Midnight 00:00 Tools
SK Blues (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Get Yourself Another Fool 00:00 Tools
2:00 AM Hop 00:00 Tools
Lazy Woman Blues (08-26-46) 00:00 Tools
When I Got Home This Morning (I'm So Worried) 00:00 Tools
Danny Boy 00:00 Tools
Stormy Night Blues 00:00 Tools
Goin' Mad 00:00 Tools
Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Unfaithful Blues 00:00 Tools
Misery Blues 00:00 Tools
When Your Lover Has Gone 00:00 Tools
September Song 00:00 Tools
Nobody Wants Me 00:00 Tools
S.K. Groove 00:00 Tools
Quit hanging around me 00:00 Tools
St James Infirmary Blues 00:00 Tools
Write Me A Letter Blues 00:00 Tools
Lazy Woman Blues 00:00 Tools
S.K. Blues 00:00 Tools
Swingin' (12-30-48) 00:00 Tools
What's Your Story Morning Glory 00:00 Tools
St. James Infirmary Blues 00:00 Tools
S.K. Blues, part 1 00:00 Tools
I'd Climb The Highest Mountain 00:00 Tools
Stay Gone Blues 00:00 Tools
S.K. Blues, part 2 00:00 Tools
S K Blues 00:00 Tools
S K Blues Pt 1 aka New S K Blues Pt 1 00:00 Tools
Sk Blues-Part 1 (New Sk Blues-Part 1) (06-?-42) 00:00 Tools
Sk Blues 00:00 Tools
2.00 A.M. Hop 00:00 Tools
S K Blues Pt. 1 Aka New S K Blues Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Swinging Door Groove (Sk Groove) (06-?-42) 00:00 Tools
Quite Hangin' Around Me 00:00 Tools
Summertime (06-?-42) 00:00 Tools
Empty Bedroom 00:00 Tools
When I Got Home This Morning aka I'm So Worried 00:00 Tools
When I Got Home This Morning 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Pillow Blues - Part 2 (1947) 00:00 Tools
S.K. Blues (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Jive At Eleven Five (06-?-42) 00:00 Tools
Big Fat Butterfly (06-?-42) 00:00 Tools
Quit haning around me 00:00 Tools
Swinging Door Groove (S K Groove) 00:00 Tools
Lazy Woman Blues aka Lazy Women 00:00 Tools
S.K. Blues (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
The Atom Leaps 00:00 Tools
S.K. Blues Part 2 00:00 Tools
Quit Hangin' Around 00:00 Tools
S.K. Blues Part 1 00:00 Tools
S.K. Jumps 00:00 Tools
After Hours (Spring 46) 00:00 Tools
What'S Your Story Morning Glory (06-?-42) 00:00 Tools
What's Your Story, Morning Glory? 00:00 Tools
The Atom Leaps (1947) 00:00 Tools
S K Jumps Pt 2 (Summertime Boogie Pt 2) 00:00 Tools
S K Blues Pt 2 aka New S K Blues Pt 2 00:00 Tools
Summertime Boogie 00:00 Tools
My Close Friend (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
St. James Infirmary 00:00 Tools
Jive at Eleven Five 00:00 Tools
S K Jumps Pt 1 (Summertime Boogie Pt 1) 00:00 Tools
I'Ll Know Just What To Do (Spring 46) 00:00 Tools
Ambling With Herb (06-?-42) 00:00 Tools
I'Ve Had My Moments (1947) 00:00 Tools
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Saunders King (March 13, 1909 – August 31, 2000) was an American R&B and blues guitarist and singer. Saunders Samuel King was born in Staple, Louisiana, United States. He was the son of a preacher, and sang in his father's church while growing up in Oakland, California. As a youngster he learned to play piano, banjo and ukelele, but did not pick up guitar until 1938. At the end of the 1930s he sang with the Southern Harmony Four on NBC radio, and decided to begin playing blues music; he released the tune "S.K. Blues" in 1942, which became a major nationwide hit. The tune featured electric blues guitar, one of the earliest recordings to do so. The lyrics tell of the singer's dissatisfaction with his bald-headed girlfriend: "I did more for my baby than the good lord ever done (2X)" "I went downtown and bought her some hair and the good lord never gave her none" This verse proved particularly popular and has come to be considered a traditional blues lyric. The song concludes on a theme of violence toward women: "Give me back that wig I bought you, and let your head go bald (2X)" "you keep on mistreatin' me baby, you won't have no hair, no head at all" King had a series of setbacks in the 1940s which hurt his career; his wife committed suicide in 1942, his landlord shot him with a .45-caliber pistol in 1946, and he was jailed for heroin possession shortly after. He recorded for Aladdin Records, Modern Records, and Rhythm Records, and retired from active performance in 1961, devoting himself to work in the church. In 1979, he played with Carlos Santana, his son-in-law, on the album Oneness. King was paralyzed by a stroke in 1999, and died the following year in Oakland, California, at age 91. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.