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Tomorrow Night

Lonnie Johnson · 1948

Context

This ballad by Sam Coslow and Will Grosz, recorded by Lonnie Johnson in 1948 for King Records, stayed at the top of Billboard's Race Records chart for seven weeks and reached number 19 on the pop chart. It reportedly sold three million copies; Johnson had been the pioneer of the single-note guitar solo in the 1920s.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Blues, spirituals, work songs.

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