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Ken Colyer's Jazzmen. Donegan was the father of the British skiffle movement of the '50s and early '60s. He combined jugband music, New Orleans jazz, country, folk, and blues in a driving, highly rhythmic style that relied strictly on acoustic instruments including banjo, washboard, and washtub bass. Home Browse Radio Search. Open in Music. Lonnie Donegan. Latest Release. Top Songs. Rock Island Line. I Wanna Go Home Live. Mule Skinner Blues. It Takes a Worried Man Live. Midnight Special Live. Lonnie Live!

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Donegan had 31 UK top 30 hit singles , 24 were successive hits and three were number one. He was the first British male singer with two US top 10 hits. Donegan was a pivotal figure in the British Invasion due to his influence in the US in the late s. Donegan was born in Bridgeton, Glasgow , Scotland, on 29 April In , when Donegan was aged 2, the family moved to East Ham in Essex.

BRITAIN: Lonnie Donnegan, the British singer who popularised skiffle music in the late s and inspired a generation of better known pop stars, died yesterday aged He collapsed midway through a UK tour after complaining of back trouble shortly before he fell unwell in the morning. He had previously suffered a series of heart attacks. He had been due to take part in a tribute concert to George Harrison at the Royal Albert Hall in London at the end of the month. Donegan brought skiffle to popular attention. It was a mixture of styles that traced its roots to s America, blending jug band, acoustic, folk, blues, and country and western styles. Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly were among his biggest influences. Skiffle was simple and cheap, apparently within the ability of anyone, regardless of musical talent.

Lonnie donegan

Donegan had 31 UK top 30 hit singles , 24 were successive hits and three were number one. He was the first British male singer with two US top 10 hits. Donegan was a pivotal figure in the British Invasion due to his influence in the US in the late s. Donegan was born in Bridgeton, Glasgow , Scotland, on 29 April In , when Donegan was aged 2, the family moved to East Ham in Essex. Donegan married three times.

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In , Donegan sold more than a million records in Britain alone, with another novelty song, My Old Man's A Dustman, a rewrite of a Liverpool folk tune and first world war marching song, updated with cockney jokes and lyrics. FamilySearch person ID. Tuesday 26 December Top Songs. They made an album together in titled Here We Go Again. Saturday 9 September And I'm a man who loves a laugh. Cumberland Gap Remastered - Single. Donegan's glory days may have been over, but he kept on going. Saint Ambrose College. Songkick artist ID.

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Good Morning Britain 3. Sunday 3 March Peter Donegan started touring as his father's pianist when he was aged Monday 20 November Member of the Order of the British Empire. Monday 1 January He even got back together with the Chris Barber Band for reunion concert tours. BBC News. Pye Records. Tuesday 13 February Donegan was born in Bridgeton, Glasgow , Scotland, on 29 April Scotland portal. Thursday 9 November Open in Music. Friday 29 September