Clarence “Frogman” Henry “You Always Hurt the One You Love”   Argo Records (1961)   Henry opened for the Beatles on their 1964 tour.   His first big hit, and most enduring recording, is the lovable and very weird, “Ain’t Got No Home” (released in 1956), where he “sings like a frog” and “sings like a girl”.   This reached a new generation, when Daniel Stern did a great sing-along in the 1982 movie “Diner.”   This LP is another example of how record companies in the fifties and early sixties even wouldn’t show the black artists on the cover in the hopes of selling the record to more white listeners.

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