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Saturday, July 19, 2008 --- 47 days ago http://www.helena-arkansas.com/news/x642513466/King-of-Clubs-owner-Bob-King-dies
| Bob King, who owned the King of Clubs nightspot in Swifton, where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and other performers in the early days of rock'n'roll performed, has died. He was 83. King ran the nightclub in Swifton for more than 50 years, playing host to country, rhythm and blues, and rock acts, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Conway Twitty and Sonny Burgess, who had five singles with Sun Records. The club, east of Batesville and west of Jonesboro on Arkansas 226, is still operating. "He was one the best club owners I ever knew," Burgess told the Batesville Daily Guard newspaper. "He was a great guy, a good friend. He'll be missed by all that knew him." King died Monday, according to Jackson's Funeral Home in Newport. Burgess recalled that he and his band members were paid $10 each to perform for what he called "a redneck crowd" on Friday nights. "They'd come out of the farms and they'd get drunk. They'd bring their babies in there and they'd set them on the table and go and dance," he said. Burgess said King was a hands-on manager, getting in the middle of fights to break them up. "Bob was tough back in those days," Burgess said. In excerpts from a 2006 interview reprinted in the Daily Guard, King said he didn't intend to become a club-owner. "Way back then I was a farmer. I worked and lived on the farm until I went into the Navy. It was rough just like it was everywhere else," he said. King returned from service in the Pacific and bou ... |
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