Ron Holden - Love You So 45 rpm!

I Love You So - Ron Holden (Donna Records) 1959/1960, 45 rpm! A Direct Recording! Ron Holden (1940-1997) was born into a prominent African American Seattle family that has long excelled in music and sports. A Garfield High School (Class of '58) football star, he also helped form one of the town's very first teenage rockin' '50s R&B groups, the Playboys. Holden's original 1959 ballad, "Love You So," became an international Top-10 hit, he appeared on American Bandstand, shared gigs with Ray Charles and Elvis Presley, and toured the world. Exhausted by showbiz, he returned to Seattle in 1977 and later ran his own popular nightclub, Ron's 5th Ave., while also participating in countless oldies concerts far and wide. (Love You So).. "We did it in Fred Rasmussen's living room. For 19 hours there were 14 people in this room which was 10 x 12 [feet] -- it was the engineer, his wife, his daughter, and his dog sitting there on the couch, and a couple of the guys' girlfriends. Larry Nelson was playing the claves and Chuck Markulis was playing the tambourine. Little Willie Bell and I were in the alcove and the other guys were all in the other room. And every time the dog would bark, we'd have to start over! On "Love You So" it was up into the 90s on takes! It was ridiculous!" The Thunderbirds had worked out an arrangement of "Love You So" that employed the unusual and hypnotically off-beat Caribbean-derived clavé pulse. The song, however, kicks off with what is considered (by modern ...