Cecil Gant
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Biography
[Edit]Pianist Cecil Gant seemingly materialized out of the wartime mist to create one of the most enduring blues ballads of the 1940s. Gant was past age 30 when he burst onto the scene in a most unusual way — he popped up in military uniform at a Los Angeles war-bonds rally sponsored by the Treasury Department. Private Gant proceeded to electrify the assembled multitude with his piano prowess, leading to his imminent 1944 debut on Oakland's Gilt-Edge Records: the mellow pop-slanted ballad "I Wonder," which topped the R&B charts despite a wartime shellac shortage that hit tiny independent companies like Gilt-Edge particularly hard. Its flip, the considerably more animated "Cecil's Boogie," was a hit in its own right.
Pvt. Gant shot to the upper reaches of the R&B charts for Gilt-Edge like a guided missile with his "Grass Is Getting Greener Every Day" and "I'm Tired" in 1945, recording prolifically for the imprint before switching over to the Bullet label for the 1948 smash "Another Day — Another Dollar" and 1949's "I'm a Good Man but a Poor Man" (in between those two, Gant also hit with "Special Delivery" for Four Star). Urbane after-hours blues, refined ballads, torrid boogies — Gant ran the gamut during a tumultuous few years in the record business (he also turned up on King, Imperial, Dot, and Swing Time/Down Beat), but it didn't last. His "We're Gonna Rock" for Decca in 1950 (as Gunter Lee Carr) presaged the rise of rock & roll later in the decade, but Gant wouldn't be around to view its ascendancy; the one-time "G.I. Sing-Sation" died in 1952 at the premature age of 38.
Title: Complete Recordings 1944 - 1945, Vol. 1
Artist: Cecil Gant
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz
Title: Complete Recordings 1947 -1948, Vol. 5
Artist: Cecil Gant
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz
Title: Complete Recordings 1950 - 1951, Vol. 8
Artist: Cecil Gant
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz
Title: Complete Recordings (1945-1947), Vol. 4
Artist: Cecil Gant
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz
Title: Complete Recordings (1949-1950), Vol. 7
Artist: Cecil Gant
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz
Title: Complete Recordings (1948-1949), Vol. 6
Artist: Cecil Gant
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz
Collections
Title: Blues, Blues Christmas (1925-1955)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Train Kept a Rollin'
Genre: Blues
Title: That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History (1895-1950)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Vintage Christmas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1951, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: So:So Blues, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1949, Vol. 5
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Blues 'n Boogie
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Christmas Blues - Songs to Get You Through the Cold
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Christmas Blues - Songs to Get You Through the Cold
Genre: Blues
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1940-1945, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Los Angeles Rhythm & Blues 1944-54
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1946, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Songs of American History
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Greatest R & B Hits of 1948 Volume 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: The Bullet Records Story - The First Americana Label
Genre: Blues
Title: Behind the Legend of Boogie Woogie Classics, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blues Roots & Folk Music
Genre: Blues
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1940-1945, Vol. 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1949, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1951, Vol. 6
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: West Coast Blues Ramblers
Genre: Blues
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1949, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1951, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Boogie Woogie New York - Chicago (Doxy Collection)
Genre: Blues
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1949, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Christmas American Blues
Genre:
Title: Bullet Records: Jump, Blues & Ballads
Genre: Blues
Title: Dancing Around the World, Vol. 5
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest R & B Hits of 1948 Volume 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1946, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1946, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1940-1945, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1940-1945, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Greatest R & B Hits of 1948 Volume 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Blues for Christmas
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues At Christmas Classic Blues Songs
Genre: Blues, Traditional Pop Music
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1946, Vol. 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1940-1945, Vol. 5
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Greatest R & B Hits of 1948 Volume 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Blacktop Blues, Vol. 1
Title: The Road To California Blues Vol 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: The Blues: California, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: The Road To California Blues Vol 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Let Me Tell You About The Blues: West Coast
Genre: Blues
Title: Rock 'N' Roll Roots: The R&B Influence
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Pop
Title: Blues Blues Christmas Vol. 1 (1925-1955) (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: 75 Pumpin' Piano Greats (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop
Title: 75 Pumpin' Piano Greats (CD3)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Country, Pop
Title: Electric Blues 2005 Part1 Beginnings 1939-1954 (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Traveling Man: A Blues Travel Guide
Genre: Blues
Title: Let Me Tell You About The Blues, Nashville (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Vocalists Of The 50ies (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Vocalists Of The 50ies (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Let Me... West Coast (CD 1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Saga Jazz: Boogie Woogie (Rockin' Roots Tracks)
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Hoy Hoy Collection - Rock Before Elvis! (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop
Title: The R&B Years 1946: Vol. 1 (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: The R&B Years 1946: Vol. 1 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Simply Rock'n'Roll
Genre: Rock & Roll
Featuring albums
Title: The Complete Blues Anthology (Doxy Collection, Remastered)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues
Title: Can't Stop Playing That Boogie Woogie - Rare Classics From The Vaults
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Jazz
