ROMPIN’ RONNIE HAWKINS, … “IN SESSION” with his band, his son, and his former backup girl singers …

Another entry from my “favorite things collection”, this is Ronnie Hawkins at his ribald best. IN SESSION was a series produced at CHCH TELEVISION in Hamilton, Ontario back in the late ‘80’s. I happened to be channel surfing and caught most of the good old rock and roll embodied in this too short clip.
Ronnie Hawkins is a Canadian icon today … although he is a native son of Arkansas. He’s also a contemporary of ELVIS (Presley, not Costello), Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis … and all of those guys who came through Sun Records studios in the good ‘ol days when rock was real.
Somehow, he made his way to the Toronto area, got steady work here and stayed, … eventually marrying a Canadian and putting together bands of (principally) Canadian musicians … who told everyone they were from various parts of the U.S., … because Canadians didn’t believe we had guys who could be as good as they became. David Foster started out with the Hawk, most, if not all of that BAND that backed Bob Dillon ( Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm) were once sidemen in the Hawks, Ronnie’s band.
I learned in this show that Beverly D’Angelo was once a backup singer with Ronnie Hawkins.
The complete story about Ronnie Hawkins’ career and how he started the careers of quite a few Canadians is out there and worth reading about. In the meantime, enjoy .

http://theband.hiof.no/history/band_shortstory.html

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