369 Johnny and the Hurricanes “Red River Rock” 1959

Johnny Paris (1940-2006) “became interested in music while still at school, and took up the saxophone after hearing the R&B honker Sil Austin and Rudy Pompilli, the energetic sax player with Bill Haley and His Comets…The band enjoyed more success in Britain than in the US…they performed in Hamburg with the Beatles—then unknown—and toured the UK” (“Johnny Paris,” The Times (UK), 5/13/2006). 

Johnny and the Hurricanes “Red River Rock”