Henry Glover, a multi-talented producer, arranger, songwriter and trumpeter, was responsible for a multitude of blues and R&B hits of the late 1940s and ’50s on King Records and associated labels by Little Willie John, Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown, Lonnie Johnson, Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, Bull Moose Jackson, Ivory Joe Hunter, Champion Jack Dupree, Tiny Bradshaw, Sonny Thompson and others. Glover recorded not only R&B and blues classics like Little Willie John’s ‘Fever,’ and Bill Doggett’s ‘Honky Tonk’ but also country hits by the Delmore Brothers and Moon Mullican, and produced jazz and rock ‘n’ roll sessions as well for King in Cincinnati and later for Roulette in New York. His prolific composer credits include ‘Drown in My Own Tears,’ ‘Blues Stay Away From Me,’ ‘Peppermint Twist,’ the surf hit ‘California Sun,’ and ‘Annie Had a Baby.’ Born May 21, 1921, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Glover graduated from Alabama A&M with a broad knowledge of music and left graduate studies at Wayne State in 1944 to join the Buddy Johnson band, later working with Lucky Millinder. At King, he followed label owner Syd Nathan’s credo that a good song could succeed with both black and white audiences and had blues singers record songs from King’s country catalogue and vice versa, sometimes with interracial session bands. He is generally credited as the first African American to produce white country sessions. Glover left King in 1958 and worked with Old Town Records, his own Glover label, and Roulette, recording Dinah Washington, Joey Dee & the Starliters, Louisiana Red, Larry Dale and many others. He spent a few years back with King and then partnered with Levon Helm in R.C.O. Productions to produce The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album on Chess as well as albums by Helm and Paul Butterfield. Glover died in St. Albans, Queens, New York, on April 7, 1991.