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The legendary Riley ’BB’ King filmed on 15th April 1970 for Playboy After Dark. BB plays 2 songs from his ’Completely Well’ LP released a few months previous in December 1969. I don’t make anything editing and putting these videos together so please support the channel with the link here if you can its greatly appreciated! 0:00 So Excited (Gerald Jemmott / B.B. King) 2:31 Thrill Is Gone (Rick Darnell / Roy Hawkins) B.B. King: Guitar, Vocals Patrick Williams: Trumpet Lee Gatling: Saxophone Charlie Boles: Piano Val Patillo: Bass Sonny Freeman: Drums Completely Well was B.B. King’s breakthrough album in 1969, which finally got him the long-deserved acclaim that was no less than his due. It contained his signature number, “The Thrill Is Gone,“ and eight other tunes, six of them emanating from King’s pen, usually in a co-writing situation. Hardliners point to the horn charts and the overdubbed strings as the beginning of the end of King’s old style that so identifiably earmarked his early sides for the Bihari Brothers and his later tracks for ABC, but this is truly the album that made the world sit up and take notice of B.B. King. The plus points include loose arrangements and a small combo behind him that never dwarfs the proceedings or gets in the way. King, for his part, sounds like he’s having a ball, playing and singing at peak power. This is certainly not the place to start your B.B. King collection, but it’s a nice stop along the way before you finish it. “The Thrill Is Gone“ is a slow minor-key blues song written by West Coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951. Hawkins’s recording of the song reached number six in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951. In 1970, “The Thrill Is Gone“ became a major hit for B.B. King. His version helped make the song a blues standard. B.B. King recorded his version of “The Thrill Is Gone“ in June 1969 for his album Completely Well, released the same year. King’s version is a slow 12-bar blues notated in the key of B minor in 4/4 time. The song’s polished production and use of strings marked a departure from both the original song and King’s previous material. When BluesWay Records released “The Thrill Is Gone“ as a single in December 1969, it became one of the most successful of King’s career and one of his signature songs. It reached number three in the Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles chart and number 15 in the broader Billboard Hot 100 chart. B.B. King’s recording earned him a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 1970 and a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 1998. King’s version of the song was also placed at number 183 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Live versions of the song were included on King’s albums Live in Cook County Jail (1971), Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together (1976), and Live at San Quentin (1991). If any videos get blocked I tend to post them on my other social media platforms, so have a look if you don’t want to miss anything! All links are here: #bluesincolour #blueslegend #bluesmusic #bluesman #bluesmusician #bluesguitar #bluesguitarist #bluesguitarlicks #bluesguitarlesson #bluessinger #bluessongsofalltime #bluessong #gibsonguitars #gibson345 #bbking #chicagoblues
