Eddie and the De-Havilons – Baby Dumplins
Eddie Silvers
Listen/Download – Eddie and the De-Havelons – Baby Dumplins
Greetings all.
It’s time to get another week rolling here at the Funky16Corners blog, and what better way to do so than with a swinging, greasy organ instrumental?
The tune I bring you today is a little something I grabbed when I was down in DC last year.
When I happened upon ‘Baby Dumplins’ by Eddie and the De-Havelons, the name(s) rang a distant bell, but I couldn’t possibly pass up a 45 with names like that on the label.
When I got the record home and gave it a spin I was happy to discover a hot, fast moving organ instro with wailing sax, i.e. a solid party record.
When I sat down to try and track down some info on the record, it was a little harder than I anticipated.
Certainly a unique name like ‘Eddie and the De-Havelons’ narrowed down the search results, but I don’t think I was prepared for the remaining info to be quite so narrow.
It was only after I started to search using the name of the song’s author, ‘Eddie Silvers’ that I had a breakthrough.
Eddie Silvers was a Chicago-based saxophonist and arranger who was the musical director at the storied One-Derful label during the mid 60s. He had previously worked with the likes of Fats Domino and Bill Doggett before being hired by the notorious Don Robey to work as an A&R man for the Duke/Peacock organization.
During the 60s, Silvers recorded with a few different groups, including the Five G’s (for UA) and the Soul Merchants (for the Stax subsidiary Weis records), and I going to take an educated guess that it’s him playing sax on ‘Baby Dumplins’ by Eddie and the Dehavelons.
The tune – which was released in 1963 – featured some burning organ, hot sax solos and something that I first thought was a fuzz guitar, but is probably a baritone sax dropping bombs all the way through the record.
‘Baby Dumplins’ is one of those organ instros that manages to have quite a bit of soul, while keeping enough of a crossover feel to appeal to the twisters feeding nickels into the jukeboxes of America.
As far as I can tell this is the only 45 recorded under this name (certainly the only one they did for Peacock).
I hope you dig it, and I’ll be back on Wednesday with something cool.
Peace
Larry
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Was looking at some old videos of Bobby Bland tonight, and through of Eddie Silvers, and wondered what he was doing, Eddie was a & r man for my group, The El torros, on the Sureshot label in 1960. Junior Parker and Bobby Bland got us a contract on Duke label in 1957, both labels belonged to Don Robey and in 1957 Gilbert Capel was a & r man at that time.
just wondering if you new what and how Eddie is doing?
thank you, John
If you know how to contact Eddie Silvers please feel free to give him my e-mail address, I am an old friend of his and would like to talk with him , I knew him when I lived in Arizona. Would be nice to say hello.
Unfortunately I am not in contact with Mr. Silvers.
I just ran across your request to get in contact with my dad.
My dad passed away back in the 1970’s. Did you know he also played with Ike and Tina Turner.
I’m sorry to hear that. Oddly enough I saw your father’s name on a couple of 45s today. I did not know your father worked with Ike and Tina.