Jesse Stone - Legacy

Legacy

  • Elvis Presley performed Stone's "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and "Flip, Flop and Fly" in a medley on the January 28, 1956 broadcast of the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show.
  • Sam Cooke performed Stone's "Shake, Rattle and Roll" on his Night Beat album in 1963.
  • The Jerry Garcia Band performed Stone's "Don't Let Go" live in concert at least 154 times, between March 30, 1976 and April 21, 1995.
  • The Steve Miller Band covered "Your Cash Ain't Nothing but Trash" (written as Charles Calhoun) on the 1973 album The Joker. It was also released as a single in 1974.
  • Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen covered "Don't Let Go" on their eponymous 1975 album.
  • Isaac Hayes covered "Don't Let Go" on Polydor's album by the same name in 1979.
  • Jeff Lynne covered "Don't Let Go" as track 2 on his 1990 solo album Armchair Theatre.
  • Huey Lewis and the News covered "Your Cash Ain't Nothing but Trash" on their 1994 album Four Chords & Several Years Ago.
  • The Beatles covered "Shake, Rattle and Roll" http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/rip-it-up-shake-rattle-and-roll-blue-suede-shoes/ released in 1996 on The Beatles Anthology 3
  • Count Basie wrote in autobiography that Stone had the reputation as the best piano player in Kansas City when Basie first performed there in 1920.
  • Kansas City jazz historian Frank Driggs wrote that Stone did the first written horn arrangements for a jazz band, and was instrumental in modernizing the form to be performed in 4/4 time.
  • One of the 2010 recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  • One of the 2010 inductees in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
  • Ry Cooder covered "Money Honey" on his 1971 album, Into the Purple Valley, and "Smack Dab in the Middle" on Chicken Skin Music.
  • Wanda Jackson covered "Like a Baby" on her 2011 album, The Party Ain't Over.

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