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    Don Deadric Robey (November 1, 1903 – June 16, 1975) was an American record label executive, songwriter, and record producer. As the founder of Peacock...
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  • Robey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Don Robey (1903–1975), American record executive George Robey (1869–1954), English music hall...
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  • was an American record label, founded in 1949 by Don Robey in Houston, Texas, United States. Robey established the record label in 1949 after two years...
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  • had been signed by "Diamond" Don Robey's Houston-based Peacock Records the year before, and after two failed singles, Robey had enlisted Otis to reverse...
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  • Farther Up the Road (category Songs written by Don Robey)
    a Houston-area independent songwriter/broker, and Duke Records owner Don Robey. In an interview, blues singer Johnny Copeland claimed he and Medwick...
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  • Pledging My Love (category Songs written by Don Robey)
    My Love" is a blues ballad. It was written by Ferdinand Washington and Don Robey and published in 1954. The song's theme is captured in the title and the...
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  • Memphis, Tennessee in November 2007. "Farther Up the Road" (Joe Medwick, Don Robey) – 3:27 "Ain't That Lovin' You" (Deadric Malone) – 3:09 "I'm Too Far Gone...
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  • Turn On Your Love Light (category Songs written by Don Robey)
    Scott (with an additional credit given to Duke Records owner/producer Don Robey aka Deadric Malone). Scott's brass arrangement "upped the excitement ante"...
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    his. In 1954, Wright signed a contract with Peacock Records, owned by Don Robey, in Houston, Texas. He made his last recordings in 1959. He primarily...
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  • Share Your Love with Me (category Songs written by Don Robey)
    "Share Your Love with Me" is a song written by Alfred Braggs and Deadric Malone. It was originally recorded by blues singer Bobby "Blue" Bland. Over the...
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  • As the Years Go Passing By (category Songs written by Don Robey)
    is credited to have been written by 'Deadric Malone' (a pseudonym of Don Robey), owner of Duke, which was a customary practice for some producers and...
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  • Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy" (Darryl Carter, Charles Hodges, Don Robey) – 4:33 "All I Do" (Trucks, Mike Mattison, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott...
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  • Steps from the Blues" (Don D. Robey, John Riley Brown) – 2:34 "Cry Cry Cry" (Don D. Robey) – 2:43 "I'm Not Ashamed" (Don D. Robey, Joseph Scott) – 2:36...
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  • owned by impresario and record producer Don Robey. In 1950 she signed a five-year recording contract with Robey's Peacock Records. Her first Peacock record...
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  • one "Pledging My Love" (Don Robey, Ferdinand "Fats" Washington) "Spanish Nights" (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson) "Rainbow Love" (Don Gibson) "It's Lonely" (Orbison...
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  • "Cry Now" contains elements of "Blind Man", written by Joseph Scott and Don Robey, and performed by Bobby "Blue" Bland. "Hammer Dance" contains elements...
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  • I Pity the Fool (category Songs written by Don Robey)
    writers believe that it was written by Joe Medwick, although Duke owner Don Robey (using the pseudonym "Deadric Malone") appears on the songwriting credits...
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  • Eric Clapton, Rick Danko Eric Clapton 5:01 3. "Further on Up the Road" Don Robey, Joe Medwick Eric Clapton 5:30 4. "Ophelia"     3:45 5. "Helpless" (Mitchell...
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  • the Houston-based soul sub-label of Duke Records, when it was run by Don Robey. ABC Records assumed ownership of Back Beat on May 23, 1973, as part of...
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  • Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. "It's My Life, Baby" (Don Robey) – 4:08 "Don't Take Advantage of Me" (Lee Baker, Jr.) – 5:22 "Iodine in...
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  • Way Home" Steve Winwood 6:05 5. "Further on Up the Road" Joe Vease · Don Robey 6:33 6. "Stormy Monday" T-Bone Walker 12:39 7. "Badge" Eric Clapton ·...
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  • Track 7 contains a sample of "Blind Man" written by Joseph Scott and Don Robey as performed by Bobby Bland Track 11 contains a sample of "Checking Out"...
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  • Knew" (2:29) "I've Given 'Bout All I Can Take" (2:46) "Pledging My Love" (Don Robey/Ferdinand Washington) (3:52) "I'll Always Be a Fool for You" (3:04) "(Sittin'...
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  • Palm and performed by Hiatus Kaiyote; "Be Ever Wonderful", written by Don Robey and Joe Scott, as performed by Ted Taylor; "Ostavi Trag", written by September;...
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  • 2:57 "Bluebird" – 5:32 "Falling Star" - 2:45 "Farther On Up the Road" (Don Robey, Joe Veasey) – 2:33 "Smile" – 4:45 "Little Girl"– 4:51 "Love's Gonna Bring...
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  • (featuring Charlie Musselwhite) Albert King 3:03 7. "Don't Cry No More" Don Robey 2:44 8. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (featuring Ann Peebles) Muddy Waters 3:29...
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  • additional content, including songs with lead vocals performed by Leon Russell, Don Preston and Claudia Lennear as noted above. The new edition also added previously...
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  • (Harold Johnson, Andrew Porter, Greg Wright) – 3:35 "Pledging My Love" (Don Robey, Ferdinand Washington) – 3:34 "Just Say, Just Say" (Nickolas Ashford,...
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  • London, 4 December 1974) – 7:20 "Further on Up the Road" (Joe Medwick, Don Robey) (Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, 28 June 1975) – 7:36 Disc 3 of...
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    then being run by the Houston entrepreneur Don Robey. According to his biographer Charles Farley, "Robey handed Bobby a new contract, which Bobby could...
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