Confidentially Dedicated To You CD

Sonny Knight
Confidentially Dedicated To You CD

One of the few Rhythm & Blues artists of the 1950s to have ever written a successful novel about the music business - The Day The Music Died, penned under his birth name of Joseph C Smith – Sonny Knight epitomised the Los Angeles R&B scene with his mellow tunes and cool vocals.
Although he only ever had one chart hit of note in the 1950s – the much covered Confidential – his influence of a generation of young R&B artists is undeniable.
Even now he’s beloved of the East Los Angeles ‘lowrider’ music scene, particularly when an Oldies But Goodies dance is in session.
Sonny released a couple of dozen singles in a career that spanned just the one dozen years or so, mostly label hopping with some frequency and often from record to record.
This is not a reflection on their quality which – as you will hear from this collection - is uniformly high.
Ballads and downtempo were Sonny’s chief stock in trade, but he was equally adept at making rock ‘n’ roll - Jail Bird, Keep A Walking and Teenage Party for example, not to mention the big Jamaican '50s sound system favourite But Officer, a tongue in cheek discourse on the Los Angeles Police Department’s attitude to errant drivers.
It is, however, for Confidential and his other timeless classic Dedicated To You that Sonny the singer-songwriter will always be best remembered, and anyone unfamiliar with the rest of his repertoire will find plenty more where they came from here.
This is the first time Sonny Knight’s music has been anthologised on CD in more than thirty years, and the first time it has been digitally anthologised this extensively.