EBB
TIDE
EARL GRANT
INSTRUMENT ALBUM
SONGWRITERS: CARL SIGMAN & ROBERT MAXWELL
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: VINTAGE
VOCAL JAZZ/SWING Nº 195
LABEL: DECCA RECORD
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1960
Grant was born in Idabel, Oklahoma.
Though he would be
known later for his keyboards and vocals, Grant also played trumpet and drums.
Grant attended four music schools, eventually becoming a music teacher. He
augmented his income by performing in clubs during his army service, throughout which he was stationed in Fort Bliss,
Texas. Grant signed with Decca Records in 1957 and his first single "The End" reached number 7 on
the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The álbum Ebb Tide (And Other Instrumental Favorites) sold over one million
copies, gaining gold disc status. He recorded six more singles that made
the charts, including "Swingin' Gently" (from Beyond the Reef), and
six additional albums (on the Decca label) through 1968. He also recorded the álbum
Yes Sirree! and the instrumental album Trade Winds, single-tracked on the Hammond organ and piano, featuring the love theme from the film El Cid and Chaplin's
"Eternally". This album featured some
realistic-sounding "tropical bird calls" produced by his electric
organ. "House of Bamboo" was another big-selling single. Grant
recorded 30 albums for Decca, mostly on the Brunswick label, a subsidiary of
Decca.
Several of his albums featured tenor
saxophonist Plas Johnson.
Grant also made a few appearances in films
and on television, including Tender Is the Night (1962), Juke Box Rhythm (1959), It Takes a Thief (1969) and The
Ed Sullivan Show (1960).
Grant sang the title theme for the 1959 film Imitation of Life.
He died instantly in a car accident in Lordsburg,
New Mexico, at the age of 39 when the car
he was driving ran off Interstate 10.
He was driving from Los Angeles to an intended destination in Juarez, Mexico,
for an appearance at the La Fiesta nightclub. His cousin's 17-year-old son,
Roosevelt Wilson Jr., also was killed in the accident.
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed
Earl Grant among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in
the 2008
Universal fire.
Earl Grant (January 20, 1931 – June 10, 1970)
was an American pianist, organist,
and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
"Ebb Tide" is a popular song, written
in 1953 by the lyricist Carl Sigman and composer Robert Maxwell. This song is not to be confused
with the title song from the movie Ebb
Tide (1937), which is a composition by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger.
DELICIE-SE, ABRA A ALMA, A MENTE E OS
OUVIDOS E VIAJE
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