The Official Website for The Centennial of Bill Doggett,
The King of 1950s Jazz and R&B Organ
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Happy 108th Birthday Bill Doggett February 16th, 2024
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Photo of me with my uncle Bill and aunt{his wife}, Angelyn Garlington Doggett
circa 1989-90.
Photo by my dad, Bill's younger brother, the renowned St Louis Civil Rights leader/minister Rev. John N Doggett
Lost photograph from the Archive of Bill's younger brother,
Reverend John N Doggett Jr. Photo 1960 Los Angeles taken at 1809 Viriginia Road
by renowned LA photographer, Harry Adams
News from London
BLUES AND RHYTHM MAGAZINE
March 2017 issue
A BILL DOGGETT CENTENNIAL FEATURE
Written by nephew, Bill Doggett II
This Feature honors THE DOGGETT BROTHERS, Bill and younger brother John Doggett, my father
NEW From RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE, The American Record Collectors' Trade Magazine,
A BILL DOGGETT CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE-Febuary-March 2017 Edition
The Bill Doggett Centennial
February 16, 2016-February 15, 2017
SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2016
THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF
HONKY TONK PARTS 1&2
A CINCINNATI KING RECORDS
MEGA HIT LEGEND
BILL DOGGETT II presents
A MULTI MEDIA CELEBRATION
honoring
The 73rd Anniversary Of King Records and
The 60th Anniversary of HONKY TONK
9/17/2016
CINCINNATI OHIO MAIN LIBRARY
The Bill Doggett Combo@1956
Photo@Gettty Images
Celebrating Bill Doggett @ 100 years!
The Bill Doggett Centennial
February 16, 1916-February 16, 2016
Born William Ballard Doggett in North Philadelphia, Bill Doggett is one of Philadelphia's musical legends.
Remembered for his landmark multi Gold Record hit, Honky Tonk Parts 1 and 2 from 1956, Bill Doggett was a major headliner at the dawn of Rock n Roll and recording star for Syd Nathan's Cincinnati based record company, King Records.
Along with his Hammond B2 organ mentor, Bill Davis, Doggett was one of the most consequential jazz organ combo influencers of the last half of the 20th century.
His legacy and stylistic influences continue to inspire and be talked about in 2022 by jazz and blues musicians around the world .
King Records was also home to other legendary headliners including Earl Bostic, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters, The Dominos, The Royals, The Platters, The Five Keys. The Swallows and the young James Brown and His Famous Flames showcased on King's Federal Records label
King Records is also historic as the nation's first integrated record company.
Syd Nathan,an outspoken Jewish entrepreneur was very proud of and intentional in his social progressiveness at his record company.... decades ahead of the national pulse.
Bill Doggett, Earl Bostic and James Brown were the trio of African American King recording artists who defined a label at the height of Segregation and at the dawn of The Civil Rights Movement of 1955-60.
The brilliance and timing of Bill Doggett's music was that it anticipated and directly matched the pulse of American teenagers' fever for "sock hop" Rock n Roll dances.
The signature Hits, Honky Tonk Parts 1&2, Ram Bunk Shush, Blip Blop, Monster Party....were all about the world of
1956-59 Rock n Roll teenager fever....
dancing, 45rpm/78rpm juke boxes, poddle skirts, bobby socks, soda fountains and root beer floats, 1956-59 Fords, Chevys, Drive In Movies,Radio disc jockeys like Allan Freed, Black and White TV's showcase of Rock n Roll by
Dick Clark's American Bandstand and The Ed Sullivan Show
Photo: Courtesy of Rock Hall of Fame KING RECORDS Dedication ceremony
Photo of King Records founder, Syd Nathan with Little Willie John courtesy of ACE Records
Rhythm and Blues Magazine 1953-59
photo courtesy of UK Blues and Rhythm Magazine
July 1955 issue of Rhythm&Blues
From The Collection of Bill Doggett II
Los Freneticos aka Mr. Rock and Roll 1957- original Spanish lobby card
From the collection of Bill Doggett II
Rare Music and Teen Culture collectibles
From the collection of Bill Doggett II
Rhythm and Blues July 1955: Fats Domino cover issue
October 24, 1956, Billboard Magazine:national stats for Honky Tonk
From the collection of Bill Doggett II
THE DAWN OF ROCK N ROLL
1954
THE DOOR FOR BILL DOGGETT...
FATS DOMINO, CHUCK BERRY, BO DIDDLEY
WAS OPENED BY
THE TRENIERS
ENJOY THIS FANTASTIC 1954 TV GEM
TO VIEW VIDEO BELOW, Click on Pause STOP on MUSIC PLAYER ==>above<==
TALKING BILL DOGGETT HISTORY and LEGACY
San Francisco Wanda's Picks BlogTalk Radio
March 16th 2016
Listen and Learn with nephew Bill Doggett II hosted on SOUNDCLOUD
TO VIEW VIDEOS BELOW, Click on Pause STOP on MUSIC PLAYER ==>above<==
Filmography of Honky Tonk video by Andy Kimmel
Photos by Rodger Allen and Bill Doggett II
The Blues Foundation of Memphis inducted Bill Doggett posthumously into their Hall of Fame in 2006.
Photos @The Blues Foundation and Hall of Fame
The Blues is at the foundation of everything.....Bill Doggett
The Bill Doggett Centennial is a celebration of Bill Doggett's legacy and family history, the Philadelphia rooted, Doggett family .
He is survived by two nephews, William Doggett II, John Nelson Doggett III, the children of Bill Doggett's younger brother, John Nelson Doggett Jr, the tenor sax player in his older brother's 1935-37 Central High Philadelphia Swing Ensemble, The Five Majors and Bill Doggett's 1937-38 Philadelphia "Castle Orchestra"
Philadelphia 1936-North Van Pelt Street
John N Doggett Jr, Winola Doggett, John N Doggett Sr, William "Bill" Doggett My father, John was an awesome sax player in his older brother's popular
High School ensemble, The Five Majors and 1937 Philadelphia
"Bill Doggett Castle Orchestra"
Photo from the personal album of Winola Doggett, the mother of Bill and John and my grandmother.
The Centennial is a celebration project created by Bill Doggett's nephew and namesake, Bill Doggett II formally William Ballard Doggett II named by his father, Bill's younger brother, John N. Doggett Jr and mother, Frances Brown Doggett, both from North Philadelphia.
My parents migrated from North Philadelphia to California while, Bill and his wife, my aunt, Angelyn Doggett stayed based in Islip, Long Island, New York.
These historic photos are the official published photographs of The Doggett Family which contradict the probated documents of the estate of Bill Doggett.
Photo 1: Los Angeles circa Fall 1957:L-R:Niece, Lorraine Doggett, Uncle Bill, little Bill II[me], mother, Frances Doggett, Rev. John N Doggett-Bill's younger brother and nephew, "Johnny" John N Doggett III
Photo 2: Los Angeles circa Spring 1960: Bookended by The Doggett Brothers:Reverend John Doggett and Bill Doggett. L-R: Frances Doggett, Lorraine Doggett, Carolyn Clarke Brown[maternal grandmother], "little" Bill II[center], John N Doggett III, John N Doggett Sr[father of John and Bill Doggett], Winola Doggett[mother of John and Bill Doggett], Angelyn Doggett and Bill Doggett
Photo 3: Los Angeles circa Spring 1960- Open House 1809 Virginia Road:3 Generations of John Doggetts:L-R: Angelyn Doggett, Bill Doggett,John N Doggett III, John N Doggett Jr, Seated: Winola Doggett, John N Doggett Sr, Carolyn Clarke Brown and Frances Brown Doggett
Circa late 1980s, ME with my uncle and aunt, Bill and Angelyn Doggett, Photo taken by my father, Johnn Doggett, Bill's younger brother
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