B.B. Cunningham, Jr (Blake Baker Cunningham, 6 April 1942, Jackson, Mississippi - 14 October 2012, Memphis, TN) was an American musician, a founding member of the ’60s group
The Hombres and in his later years a part of
Jerry Lee Lewis’s band. In 1959 his father, Cunningham Sr. started his own record label, Cover Records, in Memphis, assisted by B.B., who became a jack of all trades for the label : singer, songwriter, session player, producer and general handyman. One of the first records on Cover was B.B.'s "Trip To Band- stand" (Cover 5931), an obvious cash-in on Bil…
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