Excello Records was an American blues

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, started by Ernie Young in

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, United States, in 1953 as a subsidiary of Nashboro, a

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label.

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It recorded such

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as Lonnie Brooks, Lightnin' Slim, Slim Harpo, Roscoe Shelton, Lazy Lester, the Kelly Brothers, Lonesome Sundown, Silas Hogan,

Arthur Gunter Arthur Neal Gunter (May 23, 1926 – March 16, 1976) was an American blues guitarist and musician. He was best known for his song "Baby Let's Play House", which was later a hit single for Elvis Presley. Biography Gunter was born in Oglethor ...

Marion James Marion Agness James (October 8, 1934 – December 31, 2015) was an American blues singer and songwriter. She was considered Nashville's "Queen of the Blues." Her career spanned sixty years, where she wrote a hit song, "That's My Man". A flamboya ...

Carol Fran Carol Fran (born Carol Augustus Anthony; October 23, 1933 – September 1, 2021) was an American soul blues singer, pianist, and songwriter, best known for her string of single releases in the 1950s and 1960s, and her later musical association w ...

Warren Storm Warren Storm (February 18, 1937 – September 7, 2021) was an American drummer and vocalist, known as a pioneer of the musical genre swamp pop; a combination of rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun music and black Creole music. B ...

Tabby Thomas Ernest Joseph "Tabby" Thomas, (January 5, 1929 – January 1, 2014), also known as Rockin' Tabby Thomas, was an American blues musician. He sang and played the piano and guitar and specialized in swamp blues, a style of blues indigenous to southe ...

Guitar Gable Gabriel Perrodin (August 17, 1937 – January 28, 2017), known as Guitar Gable, was an American Louisiana blues, swamp blues and swamp pop musician. He was best known for recording the original version of "This Should Go On Forever", and hi ...

, and a spoken word sermon by Martin Luther King Jr. Arthur Gunter recorded an

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I Wanna Play House With You "I Wanna Play House With You" is a 1951 song by Eddy Arnold, written by Cy Coben. The song went to number one on the Country & Western Best Seller lists for six weeks and a total of twenty-four weeks on the chart. The B-side of "I Wanna Play House ...

". His song, " Baby Let's Play House", was

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Excello singles discography
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