James "Sugarboy" Crawford
James "Sugarboy" Crawford
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About James "Sugarboy" Crawford
James "Sugarboy" Crawford, born October 12, 1934, is a New Orleans R&B artist. Author of the classic "Iko Iko", a hit for him in 1954, and later covered by many other artists, including The Dixie Cups and Dr. John. Starting out on trombone, he formed a band which local DJ Doctor Daddy-O named "The Chapaka Shawee" (Creole for "We Aren’t Raccoons"), the title of an instrumental they played. Signed on by Chess Records president Leonard Chess, the group was re-named "Sugar Boy and his Cane Cutters". Although his song became a standard at the New Orleans Mardi Gras, Crawford himself disappeared from public view, and in a 2002 interview for Offbeat, told how his career came to an abrupt halt in 1963 after a severe beating which incapacited him for two years forcing him to leave the music business.
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