Doc Sausage

He was born in Brunswick, Georgia, and moved to New York City in 1936.{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-1995|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=1996 |publisher=Record Research |page=390}} By 1938, he was performing with his group, Dr. Sausage and His Five Pork Chops. Regarded as a novelty act, the group included Al "Dr. Horse" Pittman.[http://jazzagemusic.blogspot.co.uk/2013_09_16_archive.html "On This Day in Jazz Age Music: September 17th"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016091045/http://jazzagemusic.blogspot.co.uk/2013_09_16_archive.html |date=2013-10-16 }}. Retrieved 8 October 2013 His pianist Jimmy Harris was killed in a car crash that year,{{Cite book |last=Company |first=Johnson Publishing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFsDAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Dr.+sausage%22&pg=PA42 |title=Jet |date=1952-09-11 |publisher=Johnson Publishing Company |language=en}} but the following year the group performed as a "specialty" feature in a revue, Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1939, at the Hudson Theatre. Their act was influenced by performers such as Cab Calloway, and contained comedy, swing jazz, and vocal harmonies.{{Cite web |title=Unreprentant – Just another WordPress site |date=10 May 2016 |url=https://john.foliot.ca/doctor-sausage-and-his-five-pork-chops/ |access-date=2023-05-08 |language=en-US}} The group first recorded for Decca Records in 1940, on a version of "Wham (Re-bop-boom-bam)" featuring Gerry "The Wig" Wiggins on piano. However, neither it nor other tracks for Decca were commercially successful.

Tyson did not record again until 1950, when his new group, Doc Sausage and His Mad Lads, recorded for the Regal label. As well as Doc Sausage on vocals and drums, the group comprised Earl Johnson (tenor saxophone), Charles Harris (piano), Charlie Jackson (guitar), and Jimmy Butts (bass).{{Cite book |last1=Leadbitter |first1=Mike |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJdHAAAAMAAJ&q=%22lucius+tyson%22+sausage |title=Blues Records, 1943-1970: A Selective Discography |last2=Slaven |first2=Neil |date=1987 |publisher=Record Information Services |isbn=978-0-907872-07-8 |language=en}} The group recorded eight tracks, including a version of "Rag Mop" which reached number 4 in the Billboard R&B chart, and its follow-up, "Sausage Rock".{{Cite web |title=GLOBALDOGPRODUCTIONS |url=http://www.globaldogproductions.info/r/regal.html |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=www.globaldogproductions.info |archive-date=2023-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325225359/http://globaldogproductions.info/r/regal.html |url-status=live }} The record company went out of business soon afterwards, and Tyson seems not to have recorded again.

Tyson died in New York in 1972 at the age of 61.

Doc Sausage and His Five Pork Chops

• Decca DE 7736

: Recorded March 19, 1940, New York City

: Gerry "The Wig" Wiggins (piano), Lucius Tyle (drums), (rest of the performers unknown)

1. Side A (67347 matrix): "Wham" ("Re-Bop-Boom-Bam") (© 1939) (ensemble, vocalists)
   

   {{space|4}}By Taps Miller (né Marion Joseph Miller; born 22 July 1915 Indianapolis) (w&m)
   

   {{space|4}}By Eddie Durham (w&m)
   

   {{space|4}}([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ICw1K3cak audio] on YouTube)
   

   {{space|4}}([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ICw1K3cak&list=PLrxad1bCNfzam12oHCIW_IZnQGBVKpTw6 audio] on YouTube)
   

   {{space|4}}{{oclc|182933147|78164514}}

2. Side B (67349 matrix): "Doctor Sausage's Blues" (Tyson, vocalist)
   

   {{space|4}}By Lucius Tyson (w&m)
   

   {{space|4}}([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6nDguot1Qo audio] on YouTube)
   

   {{space|4}}{{oclc|80133783}}

• Decca DE 7776

: Recorded March 19, 1940, New York City

3. Side A (67346 matrix): "Cuckoo Cuckoo Chicken Rhythm" (ensemble, vocalists)
   

   {{space|4}}By Lucius Tyson (w&m)
   

   {{space|4}}([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySg-UiyKU1A audio] on YouTube)

4. Side B (67348 matrix): "Birthday Party" (ensemble, vocalists)
   

   {{space|4}}([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGhlxb1Yl7s audio] on YouTube)

Doc Sausage and his Mad Lads

• Regal 3248 (1950)

5. Side A (1120 matrix): "She Don't Want Me No More"
   

   {{space|4}}By Lucius Tyson (w&m)

6. Side B (1121 matrix): "Please Don't Leave Me Now"
   

   {{space|4}}By Lucius Tyson (w&m)

• Regal 3251

: Recorded 1950

: Earl Johnson (tenor sax), Charles Harris (piano), Charlie Jackson (guitar), and Jimmy Butts (bass)

7. Side A (1141 matrix): "Rag Mop" (© 1950)
   

   {{space|4}}By Johnnie Lee Wills & Deacon Anderson (1925–2011) (w&m)
   

   {{space|4}}([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqr-O5HyWL0 audio] on YouTube)
   

   {{space|4}}{{oclc|794114382|81417351}}

8. Side B (1142 matrix): "You Got Me Cryin'" (© 1950)
   

   {{space|4}}By Howard Biggs & Fred Madison (1917–2000) (w&m)
   

   {{space|4}}([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhKeH3k5Xn4 audio] on YouTube)
   

   {{space|4}}{{oclc|81134247}}

• Regal 3256

: Recorded February 1, 1950, Linden, New Jersey

: Earl Johnson (tenor sax), Charles Harris (piano), Charlie Jackson (guitar), Doc Sausage (drums)

9. Side A (1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock" (© 1950)
   

   {{space|4}}By Lucius Tyson (w&m)

10. Side B (1143 matrix): "I've Been a Bad Boy" (© 1950)
    

    {{space|4}}By Lucius Tyson (w&m)

Doc Sausage

• Regal 3283 (78 rpm) (1949)

11. Side A (1122 matrix): "Poor Man's Blues"
    

    {{space|4}}By Lucius Tyson (w&m)
    

    {{space|4}}([https://web.archive.org/web/20160505211843/http://www.rapidmediafire.com/play-video/nKgJr2fh2N8/doc-sausage-poor-man-s-blues-regal-records-78.html audio] on {{url|www.RapidMediaFire.com}})
    

    {{space|4}}{{oclc|81021965}}

12. Side B (1119 matrix): "Doormat Blues"
    

    {{space|4}}By Lucius Tyson (w&m)
    

    {{space|4}}([https://web.archive.org/web/20160505224951/http://www.rapidmediafire.com/play-video/eI-hPjZ9v_8/doc-sausage-doormat-blues-regal-records-78.html audio] on {{url|www.RapidMediaFire.com}})
    

    {{space|4}}{{oclc|81526977}}

Doc Sausage and His Five Pork Chops

• Blue Moon Records, Barcelona CD (1996); {{oclc|720664403}}

1. The Complete Recordings 1946–1949: Luke Jones & Doctor Sausage
   

   {{space|4}}(67346 matrix): "Cuckoo Cuckoo Chicken Rhythm," DE 7776
   

   {{space|4}}(67347 matrix): "Wham" ("Re-Bop-Boom-Bam"), DE 7736
   

   {{space|4}}(67348 matrix): "Birthday Party," DE 7776
   

   {{space|4}}(67349 matrix): "Doctor Sausage's Blues," DE 7736

Doc Sausage and his Mad Lads

• Blue Moon Records, Barcelona, BM-6012 (1995)

: Blue Moon Records, Barcelona, BMCD-6004 (CD)

: {{oclc|720669437|431376428}}

2. The Complete Recordings 1940–1953: Lem Johnson, Doc Sausage & Jo Jo Jackson
   

   {{space|4}}(1119 matrix): "Door Mat Blues," RE 3283
   

   {{space|4}}(1120 matrix): "She Don't Want Me No More," RE 3248
   

   {{space|4}}(1121 matrix): "Please Don't Leave Me Now," RE 3248

   {{space|4}}(1122 matrix): "Poor Man's Blues" ("I'm A Poor Man") RE 3283
   

   {{space|4}}(1141 matrix): "Rag Mop," RE 3251
   

   {{space|4}}(1142 matrix): "You Got Me Cryin'," RE 3251
   

   {{space|4}}(1143 matrix): "I've Been a Bad Boy," RE 3256
   

   {{space|4}}(1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock," RE 3256

• Jewel Records, San Rafael, California, JR-0199 (1999)

: {{oclc|61717178}}

3. The Swing Session
   

   {{space|4}}(1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock," RE 3256

• P-Vine Special, Tokyo, PLP-9037 (1981)

: {{oclc|62410188}}

4. Sax Blowers & Honkers
   

   {{space|4}}(1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock," RE 3256

• Proper Records, P1341–P1344 (2003)

: {{oclc|54535486|939151547}}

5. The Big Horn: The History of the Honkin' & Screamin' Saxophone
   

   {{space|4}}(1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock," RE 3256

• Proper Records Properbox 61 (2003)

: {{oclc|55637857}}

6. The Big Horn: Boogie's The Thing
   

   {{space|4}}(1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock," RE 3256

• Delmark DL-438, DD-438 (CD)

: {{oclc|27869922}}

7. Honkers & Bar Walkers (Vol. 1 of 3)
   

   {{space|4}}(1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock," RE 3256

• Hoy Hoy Records (1992)

: {{oclc|28744533}}

8. The Rocking 40's
   

   {{space|4}}(1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock," RE 3256

• Hoy Hoy Records (1993)

: {{oclc|31050849}}

9. Rock Before Elvis, Before Little Richard, Before Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley or Bill Haley
   

   {{space|4}}(1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock," RE 3256

• Bear Family Records (2005)

: {{oclc|826851432|780201535}}

10. Blowing the Fuse: 28 (29) R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox in 1950
    

    {{space|4}}(1141 matrix): "Rag Mop" RE 3251

• Stash Records STB 2516/17 (CD) (1995)

: {{oclc|34508807}}

11. The Hoy Hoy Collection: Rock Before Elvis
    

    {{space|4}}(1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock," RE 3256
    

    {{space|4}}Track 13, Disc 1 of 2

• Großer & Stein GmbH, Pforzheim, 223237-354 (2005)

: Membran International GmbH

: {{oclc|255144311}}

12. Rhythm 'n' Blues: Nasty (Disc 1 of 4)
    

    {{space|4}}(1144 matrix): "Sausage Rock," RE 3256

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• [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/doc-sausage-mn0000171708 Doc Sausage at Allmusic.com]

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