Joe Liggins was an American R&B, jazz and blues pianist, who was the frontman in the 1940s and 1950s with the band, Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers.
His band was often a staple on the US Billboard R&B chart in those years, with their biggest hit being The Honeydripper, released in 1945. That single topped the R&B chart, then called the race chart, for 18 weeks. More than 60 years later, The Honeydripper remains tied with Louis Jordan's Choo Choo Ch'Boogie for the longest-ever stay at the top o...
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