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BIOGRAPHY
Born in San Antonio, Texas, from the late 1920s, Glenn played with
various jazz bands in the Dallas and San Antonio areas, first recording in
1936 with Don Albert's Orchestra.
He moved to California in 1941, joining the Walter Johnson trio in 1944,
and finding employment as a session musician and arranger. He accompanied
T-Bone Walker on his 1947 hit "Call It Stormy Monday", and later the same
year made his own first solo records, billed as Lloyd Glenn and His
Joymakers.
In 1949 he joined Swing Time Records as A&R man, and recorded a
number of hits with Lowell Fulson, including "Everyday I Have the Blues"
and the #1 R&B hit "Blue Shadows". He also had major R&B hits of
his own, with "Old Time Shuffle Blues" (#3 U.S. Billboard R&B chart in
1950) being followed by "Chica Boo", which also made #1 on the R&B
chart in June 1951......
