Michigan Rock and Roll Legends. Details. Category: Inductees. WOOLIESThe Woolies are one of Michigan’s most interesting bands. Although they are often lumped into the garage band category, largely because of their hit single “Who Do You Love”, band leader Bob Baldori claims that the label is misleading.

We could play like a garage band but we could also read music.” Their musical skills served them well when they became Chuck Berry’s backing band of choice in the late 6. Baldori fondly remembers working with the rock and roll legend: “Chuck was a terrific musician. He could hold up three fingers which meant he was playing in E flat and we knew what he was talking about”. The Woolies would go on to build their own studio in the Lansing area and even record a Chuck Berry album there; just some of the highlights in their long and varied career.

Bob Baldori was born in Pennsylvania in 1. His father was stationed there during World War II while serving in the Army. Bob's parents met through music. His dad, John Baldori, was a trumpet player, and he met Bob’s mother, Lucille, during the 1. After they married, Lucille retired from her singing career to concentrate on raising a family. After John’s discharge, the family moved to Dearborn, Michigan, and that’s where Bob, the oldest, and Jeff, the youngest, grew up with two other brothers.

Their father worked at the Ford Motor Company and their mother, Lucille, was a housewife who raised the four boys. John Baldori was a well- known Detroit union musician, and he supplemented his income by working everything from the Tigers’ baseball games to playing in jazz clubs around Detroit. Bob and Jeff Baldori. Bob Baldori’s interest in music began early on. His grandfather had a pedal- pushing player piano and when Bob was three- years- old he used to get underneath it and push the pedals. His grandfather had boogie- woogie rolls that young Bob would love to listen to.

He started piano lessons when he was five- years- old and before he was ten, he was studying with Matt Michaels. Described by Baldori as “a fabulous piano player and very well- known in Detroit”, Michaels would also give piano instruction to Jeff Baldori before going on to become a highly respected and beloved jazz professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. Bob would later get into rock and roll which was in many ways an extension of boogie- woogie, only with electric guitars. Baldori became a big fan of piano playing rockers like Jerry Lee Lewis and, especially, Fats Domino.

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He became a record buyer as well, making his purchases mostly at Dearborn Music. The owners were neighbors of the Baldori’s. Their son attended Dearborn High with Bob and later went on to become the well- known Detroit and Ann Arbor DJ, Martin Bandyke.

Baldori was also a fan of jazz great Oscar Peterson who would come to Detroit once a year to play Baker’s Keyboard Lounge. Descargar Crack Para Esupport Undelete Plus Keygen here. When he was a kid, Bob said he would sneak in to Baker’s to watch Peterson play, and once managed to get to talk to the man that Duke Ellington had called the “Maharaja of the keyboard” and ask him for some career advice. Bill “Bee” Metros was born in Detroit but grew up in Dearborn about six blocks from the Baldori’s. Bill’s father, John Metros, immigrated to the United States in 1. Greece. He eventually bought a neighborhood tavern in downtown Dearborn called the Aviation Bar. It was in Dearborn that he wed Bill’s mother, Bessie, in an arranged marriage.

The union was a happy one, however, and they would go on to have three children with Bill being the youngest. His father later sold the Aviation Bar and then worked as a bartender at the Military Inn. His mother, Bessie, was a housewife who raised the kids. Metros’ interest in music was piqued by the Greek Festivals he attended as a little boy with his family. He started music lessons in the 4th grade at Lindbergh Elementary School in Dearborn. He wanted to play saxophone but his parents vetoed it because he had braces, prompting a switch to drums.

His parents bought him his first drum kit for $2. It was a green Slingerland Pearl set that was a little faded since it had been in the showroom window, resulting in a 2. It included a bass drum, floor tom, and a snare drum.

Bill paid for all his cymbals and a matching floor tom with paper routes. Once he had his set, Metros got into the drums in a major way. He practiced so hard in his upstairs room that he put a crack in the ceiling of the downstairs dining room.

His high school band director was Tony Russo who often played in orchestras with Bob Baldori’s father. Metros got turned on the to the early rock and roll of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and La. Vern Baker. His favorite drummers are not from rock and roll, however, Bill lists Gene Krupa as his all- time favorite, followed closely by Buddy Rich. Bill Metros got his “Bee” nickname from his two- year- old nephew in Dearborn who wasn’t able to pronounce Bill so it came out “Uncle Bee”.

His high school friends picked it up on it and teasingly called him “Uncle Bee” until it was shortened to simply Bee. It’s remained his nickname for over five decades and counting.

Bee Metros met Bob Baldori when he was 1. They started playing gigs along with Maury Dean in a band they called Maury Dean & the Night Shift. The young group even cut a 4. Fortune Records in Detroit, “Catch You Later” b/w “I’ll Take That Chance”, in 1. Metros said that Maury Dean lived two houses down from the Baldori’s and graduated with Bob from Dearborn High. Dean was a big Buddy Holly fan and had traveled to see him perform at Hibbing, Minnesota, on the ill- fated Winter Dance Party Tour in 1. It was the same show that Bob Dylan attended just a few days before the fatal plane crash that claimed the lives of Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper.

As a result of Dean’s fixation, Metros and Baldori played a great number of songs from the Buddy Holly songbook while members of the Night Shift. Dean later wrote a book on the history of rock and roll called The Rock Revolution that was published in 1. Dean went on to teach English Literature at Suffolk County Community College in Long Island and wrote and published This’ll Be The Day: The Life and Legacy of Buddy Holly in 2. Armistead had recruited Bob “Stormy” Rice, a talented singer/guitarist from Corunna, and bassist Bob Hill from Lansing for the band, and he invited Baldori to a few rehearsals.

When Baldori discovered that the band needed a drummer, he suggested Bee Metros who was enrolled at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant. Armistead had a plan to form a folk rock group similar to the Byrds. Baldori said that Armistead had what he called “an odd personality” and wanted to employ a very narrow approach to folk and rock, while the rest of the band wanted to go in a more R& B/blues direction. The disagreement resulted in Armistead leaving, and Baldori, Hill, Rice and Metros forming what would become the Woolies.

Baldori wrote of this lineup: “Three hot musicians and a great singer. Hill was a James Brown fan and did a killer version of “Papa’s Go A Brand New Bag” and several others.

Stormy knew the Robert Johnson book. Bee and I had Motown and Chuck Berry down cold. It became a question of putting it all together.” Shortly thereafter, bassist Bob Hill left the band. Metros claims that he quit because his father would have killed him if he would have grown his hair long.

Whatever the reason, Hill stayed in music and went on to play with Doc Watson for years and now lives in Nashville. The Woolies tried a few replacements before bringing Jeff Baldori into the band, but only after they had made their first recording.

The Woolies had to play covers when they were doing parties; but they were also working on original music right from the start, as well as doing songs that few people had heard of at the time, including those of Johnson and other little- known blues greats.