DENNIS WHEELER AND THE PRIMESTUFF BAND
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COMPUTER MAN COMPUTER MAN
R&B UP-TEMPO WITH FULL BAND HORN SOUND- EARTHY ROCKABILLY SOUL WITH STRONG VOCAL MELODY
HOUSE BAND FOR THE CAVE LOUNGE -MACON GA- 1964 -1966
THE LITTLE DIPPER - AKA DENNIS WHEELER ANDTHE JOHN TISE BAND 1967-69
THE HOUSE BAND AT GRANTS LOUNGE 1969-1971 IN MACON GA
FIRST RECORD LABEL- CONFEDERATE RECORDS, SECOND LABEL- KING RECORDS - THIRD LABEL UNITED ARTIST -AKA DENNIS DAMON, 4TH SOFT/JAMMIE GUYDEN- 5TH LABEL R&R/ RAPP & RAPTURE RECORDSBand/artist history
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RON DENNIS WHEELER SOUNDS ONLY LIKE HIMSELF ***** ***** HOWEVER, IT IS DEPENDING ON THE STYLE OF MUSIC AND WHAT THE VENUE (THE GIG) CALLS FOR*** DENNIS WHEELER ALSO CAN SING IN MANY VOICE IMPERSONATIONS- FROM ELVIS TO JIMMY REED & DEAN MARTIN TO RAY CHARLES & JAMES BROWN! **** ******PERFORMING AT FAIR GROUNDS******STAGE SHOWS******THEATERS*****NIGHT CLUBS AND EVEN ROAD SHOWS SET UP BY PEOPLE LIKE DICK CLARK! THAT WAS BACK IN THE DAYS WHERE YOU SOLD YOUR 45 RECORDS FROM THE TRUNK OF YOUR CAR AS YOU TRAVELED AROUND WITH YOUR LITTLE FOUR ARE FIVE PEACE BAND HOPING TO TALK TO THE PD DISK JOCKEY AT ANY RADIO STATION THAT WOULD LET YOU IN THE DOOR AND SPIN YOUR RECORD SO SOMEONE MIGHT HEAR IT AND HOPING YOU COULD BOOK YOURSELF ANOTHER GIG.*** TALK ABOUT HOPE AND FAITH!**** ***** STARTING OUT AS DENNIS WHEELER IN MACON GA SINGING R&B AND BACK SOUL MUSIC AT LAKE SIDE PARK AND APPEARING ON SHOWS WITH OTIS REDDING , JAMES BROWN, BOBBY CASH AND “THE BLUE EYED SOUL BROTHER”- WAYNE COCHRAN IS WHERE THE ROOTS AND HEART OF HIS MUSIC LIES. BUT IF YOU ARE A TRUE PROFESSIONAL YOU MUST PLEASE THE CROWD AND BE ABLE TO PERFORM WHAT EVER IS POPULAR AT THE TIME. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO RELATE AND CHANGE AS THE TIMES CHANGE. YOU MUST ADAPT IN ORDER TO MAKE A CAREER OUT OF MUSIC. *** *****DENNIS DAMON WAS HIS BLACK SOUND IDENTITY AND HE LANDED A MAJOR DEAL CUTTING "SHOUT BAMA LAMA" FOR UNITED ARTISTS RECORDS. **BOBBY SMITH PRODUCED THE FIRST RELEASE OF "SHOUT BAM-A-LAMA"OTIS, WHO WROTE THE SONG AND HAD RELEASED THE SONG ON CONFEDERATE RECORDS. JOHN "R" - RICHBERG, PD DISK JOCKKY OF WLAC ADVISED BOBBY SMITH TO GET ANOTHER R&B LABEL TO RELEASE THAT VERSION ON OTIS SO HE COULD GET NATIONAL DISTIRBUTION.- THE EARLIER RELEASE ON "CONFEDERATE WAS ONLY HAD ONLY RECEIVED SOUTHERN STATES LOCAL GA RADIO AIRPLAY. MOSTLY BLACK STATIONS WHO RESENTED THE "CONFEDRATE LOGO LABEL. THE SONG WAS A HIT ANYWAY WHILE OTIS WAS WAITING FOR THE RELEASE OF SHOUT BAM-A-LAMM. WHILE BOBBY SMITH WAS WORKING THAT OUT "JOHNNY JINNKINGS AND THE PINE TOPPERS" WERE BEING RECORDED AND ON THE TELL END OF THAT SESSION "THESE ARMS OF MIND", WHICH OTIS HAD WRITTEN AND BOBBY SMITH HAD PRODUCED AND RELEASED EARLIER ON CONFEDERATE RECORDS, WAS ALSO RELEASED ON BUDDY LEACH & THE PLAYBOYS, WAS CUT ON OTIS. BOBBY SMITH WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO ADVANCE THE ARTISTS HE HAD UNDER CONTRACT, DECIDED TO SELL OTIS' CONTRACT TO, JIM STEWART AT STAX AND JERRY WEXIER IN NEW YORK. WE ALL KONW THE STRY ON THAT SONG AND OTIS FROM THAT POINT ON! BOBBY SMITH BECAME A CLOSE FRIEND AS WELL AS MY MANAGER AFTER THAT. BOBBY AND I A FEW YEARS AFTER THAT RE-RELEASED "SHOUT BAM-A- LAMA" UNDER THE NAME OF**** *** DENNIS DAMON AND BOBBY LANDED ME A DEAL WITH UNITED ARTISTS RECORDS. AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT, I BEING WHITE AND SINGING LIKE A BLACK MAN ON A MOSTLY CONSERVATIVE WHITE LABEL AT THAT TIME, RECEIVED THE REVERSE DISCRIMINATION AS OTIS HAD BEING BLACK ON THE CONFEDERATE RECORD LABEL. BOBBY SMITH THEN REPRODUCED MY VERSION OF "SHOUT BAM-A-LAMA" AND RE-CUT "SHOUT BAMA LAMA" WITH MICKY MURRAY, A BLACK ARTISTS WHICH SOLD OVER A MILLION COPIES. *** THE SONG WAS ALSO RE-CUT BY "JIMMY HALL & THE WET WILLIE BAND" WHICH ALSO SOLD WELL FOR THEM. THIS IS JUST PROOF THAT A HIT SONG IS A HIT SONG REGARDLESS OF HOW OR WHO CUTS THE SONG!**** **** THERE WERE TWO OTHER SONGS RELEASED BY DENNIS WHEELER, TITLED “ROCK BOTTOM” AND "DOWN IN DAYTONA” A TWO SIDED HIT 45 RPM WHICH SOUNDED TOO MUCH LIKE ELVIS ON KING RECORDS AND WAS HEADED UP THE CHARTS****THE SAD TRUTH IS THAT WHEN THE BLACKS FOUND OUT DENNIS DAMON WAS WHITE IT KILLED HIS R&B CAREER AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED AS THE TRUTH REVEALED DENNIS WHEELER SOUNDED TOO MUCH LIKE ELVIS TRYING TO SING BLACK MUSIC. DENNIS WHEELER'S MAJOR RECORD DEALS WERE OVER FOR SEVERAL YEARS***** ***** DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME DENNIS WHEELER WAS ONLY KNOWN AS THE MALE LEAD SINGER FOR A VEGAS TYPE GROUP CALLED, “THE FAMILY AFFAIR”. BUT THIS IS WHERE PATTY JONES THE FEMALE LEAD SINGER FOR THE GROUP AND WHO IS A GREAT SINGER AND A POLISHED SHOW PROFESSIONAL, INFLUENCED THE RAW STREET SINGER DENNIS WHEELER INTO BECOMING A SHOWROOM AND STAGE PERSONALITY. ****** ***** IT WAS AFTER MEETING BOBBY DARIN AND ELVIS IN VEGAS THAT THE "RON DENNIS WHEELER" WAS BORN. HIS OWN STYLE AND IDENTITY BECAME MERGED WITH HIS VAST PAST STREET EXPERIENCE. RON DENNIS WHEELER USES HIS VOCAL ABILITY TO CREATE A UNIQUE AND SOULFUL APPROACH TO PERFORMING AND SINGING A SONG THAT NO MATTER THE SONG STYLE FROM R&B/SOUL, COUNTRY OR SOUTHERN GOSPEL, ROCK-N-ROLL OR STANDARDS, YOU KNOW YOU’VE HEARD A SONGSTER THAT CAN TAKE ANYONE ELSE'S SONG AND MAKE IT HIS OWN SIGNATURE SONG.**** ****** AFTER MANY YEARS OF HITTING THE ROAD AND SINGING IN NIGHT CLUBS, DRINKING TOO MUCH THE LIFE STYLE TOOK ITS TOLL AND DENNIS WHEELER SETTLED DOWN AND DECIDED TO JUST WRITE MUSIC, SING AND PERFORM FOR FUN AND BEGAN PRODUCING OTHER ARTISTS. HE THEN OPENED HIS OWN INDEPENDENT RECORDING & PUBLISHING COMPANIES AND STARTED GOING BY THE NAME OF RON WHEELER.**** *** WHEN SINGING IS BORN IN YOU THEN YOU MUST SING! RON WHEELER DECIDED TO SING FOR THE LORD. SO IN 1989 HE RELEASED AN ALBUM CALLED “I GIVE YOU JESUS SINCERELY, RON DENNIS" FOR RAPTURE RECORDS. THREE SONGS ON THAT ALBUM RECEIVED CHART RATED AIRPLAY ON MANY MAJOR CHRISTIAN RADIO STATIONS. TO AVOID ANY CONTROVERSY RON WHEELER DECIDED TO JUST KEEP USING THE NAME RON DENNIS. HE NOW SHARES HIS STORY WITH ANYONE HOW JESUS HAS CHANGED HIS LIFE. ******************* EVERY PERSON HERE-UNDER IS OR HAS BEEN A PERSONAL CONTACT/FRIEND/INFLUENCE AND PERSONAL FRIEND AT SOME POINT IN MY MUSICAL CAREER IN THE PAST AND OR NOW AS I CONTINUE MY JOURNEY THROUGH MY BLESSED LIFE AS MUSICIAN!**** ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ARE SUPPER STARS IN MY LIFE! ******************************************* FIRST OTIS REDDING SONG ON CONFEDERATE RECORDS 45 - PRODUCED BY BOBBY SMITH- "FAT GAL" B-SIDE & SHOUT BAMA LAMA- A-SIDE- HAD TO CHANGE THE RECORD LABEL TO "ORBIT RECORDS"***
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