11 Joseph "Google Eyes" August - Just To Be Home With You

11 Joseph "Google Eyes" August*– Just To Be Home With You (take 1) 3:11

Joseph "Google Eyes" August, vocal; Lee Allen, alto saxophone; Paul Gayten, piano. Newark, NJ, 1950

JOSEPH "GOOGLE EYES" AUGUST
One of the great unknowns and an influence on many artists, the late "Mr.
Google Eyes" was one of the pioneers of New Orleans rhythm and blues. Signed originally by Coleman Records, also a New Jersey based label, August was one of the top blues shouters of the era.
"Crying records were real popular back then," explained August in 1989.
"Just about everybody had a record out with crying on it. That second voice
that you hear isn't a woman though, it was one of the guys in the band sounding like a chick." More than likely, the Brauns didn’t release any of the material from the session because at the time August’s Coleman contract had just been
purchased by Columbia Records.