Big Boy Myles

Big Boy Myles

Big Boy Myles

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Top Songs

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New Orleans
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Hickory Dickory Dock
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Just to Hold My Hand
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Who Can I Turn To
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She Wants to Be True

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Big Boy Myles

Biography

New Orleans R&B singer Edgar "Big Boy" Myles was born in the Crescent City in 1933. While attending Booker T. Washington High School, he and eight of his classmates formed the Sha-Weez in 1950. According to Marv Goldberg's profile in the September 1977 issue of Yesterday's Memories, the group's odd name derived from their theme song, bandmember Nolan Blackwell's "Cha-Paka-Sha-Wees," which roughly translates from the Creole "We are not raccoons"; during an appearance on local radio, they were introduced as the "'Cha-Paka-Sha-Wees' musicians," and the moniker stuck. Producer Dav...
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