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JR. WALKERS " ALL STARS"Known the world over as the "Ultimate Motown Party Band", Jr. Walker's "All Stars" present a spectacular live performance of unforgettable, non-stop foot stomping hits that guarantee everyone is on their feet within minutes of the group hitting the stage. In 1965, "Shotgun" blasted its way to #1 on the R&B charts and to #4 on the Pop Recording lists and established "Jr. Walker and the All Stars" as American musical legends. Walker, who was born Autry De Walt, started his rise to the top in South Bend, Indiana where he first played the saxophone in school and then in a series of bands that he organized. Soon after forming the "All-Stars", Walker took his signature sax sound to Motown where he wrote and recorded "Shotgun". The phenomenal success of the recording was quickly followed by a string of "party" hits: "Do The Boomerang", a #10 R&B hit "Shake and Fingerpop", a #7 R&B hit. Junior's original and definitive version of "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" which reached #3 on the R&B chart (#18 Pop hit) has since become a Motown standard. "I'm A Roadrunner", a #4 R&B hit (#20 Pop hit) "Pucker Up Butter Cup", a #3 Pop hit (#11 R&B hit) A funky cover of The Supremes chart topping Holland-Dozier-Holland song, "Come see About Me" reached #8 on the R&B chart (#24 Pop hit) "Hip City, Part Two" a #7 R&B hit 'What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)" was a #1 R&B hit (#4 Pop hit), "These Eye's" also reached #3 at R&B (#16 Pop hit). "Gotta Hold On To This Feeling", a #2 R&B Hit, (#21 Pop hit), "Do You See My Love (For You Growing)" reached #2 at R&B (#32 Pop hit) "Walk In The Night" reached #10 at R&B (#46 Pop hit). Jr. Walker continued recording for Motown through the 60's and '70's with his own group as well as lending his distinctive style to Foreigner's massive '82 #1 hit "Urgent". Walker continued to tour through the 80's and early 90's."Jr. Walker and his All Stars" were in demand worldwide, keeping up a non-stop worldwide schedule of concert dates and "one nighters". The band maintained a reputation as a phenomenal live act until his untimely death from cancer in Battle Creek, Michigan, November 23, 1995. GERALD NOEL: Saxophone The all important master saxophone chair is filled by Gerald Noel from Elkhart, Indiana. Gerald grew up in Louisiana, but, became a friend of Jr. Walker's after a chance meeting in 1985 when Jr. and his All Stars performed a concert in Boston, Massachusetts (where Gerald was studying at the renowned Berklee School of Music). Gerald has toured extensively with the great blues singer, Bobby Blue Bland, played with The Temptations, and advised such legends as Grover Washington and Eddie Harris on their instruments. In concert Gerald delivers that unmistakable "Jr. Walker tone" on his Tenor Sax, where, with a little luck you may just catch him playing one of Jr's old instruments (of which he is a proud owner).