Buster Brown
b. 15 August 1911, Cordele Georgia, USA, d. 31 January 1976. Brown played harmonica at local clubs and made a few recordings including I'm Gonna Make You Happy in 1943. Brown moved to New York in 1956 where he was discovered by Fire Records owner Bobby Robinson while working in a chicken and barbecue joint. In 1959, he recorded the archaic sounding blues Fannie Mae, whose tough harmonica riffs took it into the US Top 40. His similar-sounding Sugar Babe (1961) was covered in the UK by Jimmy Powell. In later years he recorded for Checker and for numerous small labels including Serock, Gwenn and Astroscope. Brown died in Brooklyn, New York City in January 1976.