The Jesse Anderson Band

The Jade Anderson Band, later renamed as the Jesse Anderson Band had several members over the years.  At the time of the picture above it was Jesse Anderson, Robert Heinze, Paul Manoogian & Greg Watts.  Playing mostly country music and rock n roll at the time.  The original song on this page was written by Jesse Anderson and was recorded somewhere in Oxnard, CA.  It is in somewhat fair condition considering it is over 25 years old.  The band started initially around late 1974 with an entirely different cast of characters except for Jesse and me.  All these songs will always be special to me regardless of who was in the band at any given time.  Please click on the link below to visit the Jesse Anderson web site if you have more curiosity.  Going back to the early days it was Jesse with his very charismatic personality and tremendous vocal talents.  He knew more about the business end of music then most people I knew back then.  This enabled us to start working in night clubs and well paid private parties.  The band started around the end of the year 1974.  The beginning of a long time friendship where making good music and having fun was just unavoidable.  Many close friends of mine, including members of the once 'Dirt Cheap' band were also active band members in the very early years, including the late great bassist, Larry Grimm.   Some of the members eventually went in other directions and were replaced with newer band members shown above, Greg Watts on bass and Paul Manoogian on rhythm and lead guitar.  Even James Armstrong is playing lead guitar on several of the live recordings in the night clubs around the early 80's.  Jesse headed up the band with lead vocals, rhythm guitar and yours truly on drums.  I would like to make a special comment about the very first bass player Larry Grimm who started working with Jesse in the mid 70's.  Larry was the one who knew how to put the music together and taught Jesse and I how to get a tighter sound. Larry passed away in 1995 and will always be missed along with other departed band member Lenny Hatch, who passed away later in 2003.   Special thanks to Jason & Joanna Frakes for there assistance during the recording process, and of course thanks to all are musician friends who helped like Paul Manoogian, Greg Watts, Barry Allen Honig, J.D. Bender, Perry Pineda, the late great Bill Harwood and many others I can't remember any more. By the way Perry also provided technical assistance on many of my music projects, so thanks Perry. 

 Jesse's 'For The Elvis Fans'

It was the last project we worked on together, approximately 1995-97.  Jesse was a big Elvis Presley fan and in the past had done several live shows featuring an Elvis Presley tribute show.  I personally thought he was definitely one of the best, but of course I had a biased opinion.  Jesse wanted this project to be dedicated to all of the Elvis Presley fans, so we decided to record his favorite Elvis songs.  I had recently purchased an 8 track cassette recording system which is what we used to make this CD originally, then converted to digital later on.  So trying to record this project ourselves gave us total creative control over the sound whether it be good or bad.  I guess these recordings will always be kind of special to me because of the complete control we did have.  The fact is nobody knew better what we should sound like then ourselves.  I would also like to mention one of our supporters for this cause was a lady by the name of Cherokee.  She was Jesse's biggest supporter and adopted mother.  She was a real life psychic and actually did a palm reading for Elvis once when she was much younger.  She has since passed away and will always be missed by those who knew her.  The song 'Stranger In The Crowd' was specially dedicated to Cherokee, it was one of her favorite songs.  I do remember Cherokee loved it when Jesse played the Elvis songs.  She always stuck by his side through thick and thin.  I personally wanted to record Jesse's great originals that he wrote but this project with the Elvis songs was something he really wanted to do, so we did it!  We did manage to squeeze one of his original songs "Baby Girl Dreams" and recently one other original was also added to the mix.  These sessions were recorded and engineered and produced by yours truly, with Jesse as executive producer. Jesse and I, along with some added help from his long time love interest Joyce Frakes who did a really good job playing bass on all these songs.  Several mistakes in the recording process were made along the way of course, but we did the best we could with the equipment we had.  Some of them we only had the poorly EQ'd masters, my fault there.  However some songs were re-mixed from the original 8-track sessions where possible.  We put our hearts in to this project and tried to make it the best we could.  I think we captured the groove and soulfulness of these songs that make this rock & roll fun to listen to.  Of course we are unable to sell these songs due to obvious copyright laws, but when we started this project it was actually only meant to be for close friends and family. However there here for anyone that wants to listen to them.  Jesse's charismatic personality and rich voice helped shape this rock and roll sound.  We were lucky enough to enlist the help of several friends from past music projects and I am thankful for their contribution.  For the most part this was likely our last music project together. Jesse eventually returned to his home in Tennessee and still lives there.  Well who knows what the future may bring?  Everybody that contributed to this project did a great job and I hope it shows.  Click on the links below to listen to some of the very cool Elvis and country songs covered by the 'Jesse Anderson Band' with friends. 

This music project started over 28 + years ago, around 1996-1997

Feel free to download if you want!

Jesse Anderson R.I.P.

1948 - 2021

The Jesse Anderson Band

'For The Elvis Fans'

(1996-1997)

Jesse Anderson - vocals & rhythm guitar

Joyce Frakes - bass guitar

Robert - Heinze - drums

& a host of good friends/musicians.

Special thanks to:

J.D. Bender

Barry Allan Honig

&

Paul Manoogian

Cool tunes to listen to, click on links below...

'Mess Of Blues'

Elvis cover song, written by Mort Shuman & Doc Pomus

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

 (J. D. Bender - keyboards)

'Marie's The Name Of His Latest Flame'

Elvis cover song, written by Mort Shuman & Doc Pomus

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

 (J. D. Bender - keyboards)

'Stranger In The Crowd'

Elvis cover song, written by Winfield Scott

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

 (Paul Manoogian - lead guitar)

'Ain't That Loving You Baby' 

Ivory Joe Hunter and Clyde Otis song

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

(Barry Allen Honig - lead guitar)

(J. D. Bender - keyboards)

'Susan When She Tried'

Elvis cover song written by Don Reid

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

(Barry Allen Honig - lead guitar)

'Inherit The Wind'

Elvis cover song written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

J. D. Bender on keyboards

William Harwood on rhythm guitar

'Won't You Wear My Ring Around Your Neck'

Elvis cover song, written by Bert Carroll

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

 (Barry Allen Honig - lead/rhythm guitar)

'Shake, Rattle and Roll'

written by Jesse Stone

  performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

 (Barry Allen Honig - lead/rhythm guitar)

'Don't Cry Daddy'

Elvis cover song, written by Mac Davis

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

 (Paul Manoogian - lead guitar)

'Mean Woman Blues'

Elvis cover song, written by Claude Demetrius

 performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

(Barry Allen Honig - lead guitar)

(J. D. Bender - keyboards)

'Stranger In My Own Home Town'

Elvis cover song, written by Percy Mayfield

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

(Barry Allen Honig - lead guitar)

'Sea Cruise'

written by Huey "Piano" Smith

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

 (Barry Allen Honig - lead guitar)

'Welcome To My World'

Jim Reeves cover song performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

 (Barry Allen Honig - lead guitar)

'Baby Girl Dreams' 

Written by Jesse Anderson & performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

(Barry Allen Honig featured on lead & rhythm guitar)

'Good Luck Charm' 

Elvis cover song, written by Aaron Schroeder and Wally Gold

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

'What Now, What Next' 

written & performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

(J.D. Bender on keyboards & Barry Allen Honig on lead guitar)

'Tears Fall On The Floor'

performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

written by Jesse Anderson

'Puppet On A String'

Jesse Anderson performs a karaoke version of this

Elvis cover song written by Phil Coulter & Bill Martin

with additional bass guitar & keyboards by Perry Pineda

& drum track by yours truly.

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YouTube Music Videos

'Stranger In My Own Home Town'

YouTube music Video performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

Elvis cover song written by Percy Mayfield

@  YouTube.com

'Welcome To My World'

YouTube music video performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

Elvis cover song written by Ray Winkler & John Hathcock

@ YouTube.com

'Baby Girl Dreams'

Original song written by Jesse Anderson.

@ YouTube.com

'Puppet On A String'

Elvis cover song written by Phil Coulter & Bill Martin

YouTube music video performed by Jesse Anderson

and additional audio tracks were merged with me on drums

& Perry Pineda on bass guitar & keyboards

@ YouTube.com

The many songs that didn't make it to the CD for one reason or another have been updated in 2023 and are featured below here!

'All Shook Up'

A song written by Otis Blackwell and performed by Elvis Presley.  This version features Jesse Anderson on vocals & guitar, his wife Joyce Frakes on bass

'Dixie Road'

Written by Don Goodman, Pam Rose and Mary Ann Kennedy

Performed by Jesse, Joyce & myself.

'Memphis'

Written by Chuck Berry

Performed by Jesse, Joyce & myself

'Return To Sender'

Written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell

Performed by Jesse, Joyce & Steve Gallardo on keys.

'Susan When She Tried'_Alternate version.

Once performed by Elvis, a song written by Don Reid. 

Performed by Jesse, Joyce & myself with guitar player unknown.

'The Pot Can't Call The Kettle Black'

A song written & originally performed by Jerry Jeff Walker

Performed by Jesse, Joyce & myself

'There Goes My Heart'

A song written by Raul Malo and Kostas for the band 'The Mavericks' and performed by Elvis in his earlier carreer.  This version features Jesse Anderson on vocals & guitar, his wife Joyce Frakes on bass and back up vocals with both Joyce & Joanna Frakes.

'Treat Me Nice'

A song written by Mike Stoller & Jerry Leiber

Performed by Jesse,  Joyce & myself.

'Mama Tried'

This was once posted by Jesse without drums as a Facebook Karaoke

Post back in 2018, then later I added an additional drum track just for fun.

It could use a bass track at some point... heh!

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'Paint By The Numbers' written by Jesse Anderson

Note: 'Paint By The Numbers' was our 45' single release by BMI

and our first studio effort perfomed under the name

Jade Anderson and the Combination

Listen to: 'Hotel Room' written by Jesse Anderson

The original song 'Hotel Room' was recorded around 1981 in a studio located somewhere in Oxnard, California.  Jesse Anderson on vocals & rhythm guitar, Paul Manoogian on lead & rhythm guitar, Greg Watts on bass guitar & myself on drums.  The song was copied from a very old audio cassette. The tape was also in poor condition, of course I tried to fix it the best I could with the audio equipment and time I had to work with.  Click on the link above to play the song 'Hotel Room'. The separate picture to the right is of our first bass player 'Larry Grimm' who played bass on our very first single called "Paint By The Numbers", originally recorded under the name of the "Jade Anderson Band" with a very limited release on a 45 rpm vinyl record somewhere around the years 1974-75 which is still listed at BMI online.

'Live at Maggie O'Shea's' Camarillo, CA. (circa 1980)

Jesse Anderson - vocals & guitar, Greg Watts - bass guitar,

James Armstrong - lead & rhythm guitar & myself on drums.

'Loved Them Every One' performed "LIVE" by the Jesse Anderson Band...

'The Elvis Tribute Medley' performed "LIVE" by the Jesse Anderson Band...

Click on music links below for some more vintage music from

the Jesse Anderson Band... (circa 1978-1979 approx).

Jesse Anderson - vocals & rhythm guitar * Larry Grimm - bass guitar & backup vocals * James Armstrong - lead/rhythm guitar & backup vocals

Lenny Hatch - guitar & backup vocals * Robert Heinze - Drums * Ron ? (don't remember last name) on keyboards

This material consists of some of the older vintage recordings of the Jesse Anderson Band.  Playing country music with Jesse was a lot of fun and at the same time provided me with plenty of good memories.  The current session of songs are from the infamous Jade Anderson Band before it was eventually renamed to The Jesse Anderson Band, don't ask it's not easy to explain... heh.  The recording quality is some what weak on these songs due the extreme age of the 1/4 magnetic tape.  I still wanted to have a digital copy just the same for myself and maybe for Jesse.  These songs were recorded live roughly around the years 1980-81.  After speaking with Jesse a while back I was informed that these songs were performed at 'Sarna's Lounge' on Venice Blvd. in West Los Angeles.  The picture above was actually taken from our earlier days at a small club called 'The Burning Tree' and the home of our very first steady job playing music three days a week in Santa Monica, California, roughly around 1976-1977.  Larry Grimm was on these recordings and was our original bass player. This is one of the last recordings I believe I have with Larry playing bass with us.  The piano player's name was Ron, don't remember his last name anymore?  He  unfortunately had a disagreement with Jesse that night so I guess that was the last time we played with Ron! This was also around the time Lenny Hatch worked with us also because we were starting to work further up north in Camarillo area as a duet, just guitar, drums & vocals!  Amazingly enough it actually worked out rather well and that's when we re-enlisted Greg Watts and soon after good friend James Armstrong.  Larry Grimm was replaced eventually by Greg Watts due to some re-occurring personal differences.  Jesse continued to work the band successfully in the Los Angeles and Ventura county areas for a few years and eventually re-located to somewhere in Tennessee.  These particular songs were recorded on a 'reel to reel' Teac A3340 (and were 2-track recordings).  The tapes are roughly around 25 years old now... wow!!!  I should have done this a long time ago, oh well, better late then never, hmmm that's debatable too.  James Armstrong, Lenny Hatch, Larry Grimm, and even Curtis Crotzer were all part of the band at one time.  I believe Jesse's biggest asset was his charismatic personality and his deep rich vocals but lets not forget his solid rhythm guitar playing, that definitely kept me us locked in the pocket.  We tried to conquer the entire city of Los Angeles way back then, well not exactly but almost...heh.  We did play all over Southern California many years ago and wow what a ride!  We never quite had any big success but there was always plenty of small success here and there and that was very cool.  People seemed to love our live performances.  I was inclined to name this collection of vintage recordings after our first bass player Larry Grimm who started with us at the very beginning of the journey.  I will miss him and Lenny Hatch who also passed away since then... bummer!  So I named this set of songs from Larry's nick name "The Grimmer".  So as a tribute to Larry I called this set of songs the "Grimmer Years"  However those years were anything but grim, they were more like some of the best times we had.  Well anyway many years later around the 1995 Larry passed away at the young age of 55.  He was responsible for showing Jesse and myself how to put the music together right down to the notes, chords & clever arrangements. Grimmer's guidance gave us a more professional tighter sound and I will miss him as a musician and a friend.  Then there was Lenny, solid rhythm guitarist and one of my closest friends.  Lenny past away around August 2003 and I will miss both of those guys.  I have posted a few of these songs for public listening.  Click on the links below if you are interested, the quality is not that great but the songs have a great energy about them.  So if you are up to it, please listen to a few country cover songs performed "live" many years ago...music\JesseAtSarna'sLounge-withTheGrimmer_MP3s\Jesse Anderson Band - Looking For Love.mp3

'Looking For Love'

'Take This Job And Shove It'

performed "LIVE" by the Jesse Anderson Band.

Robert Heinze... 3/23/2005

These live recordings from around the year 1981

Jesse Anderson, Greg Watts, Paul Manoogian, Robert Heinze

'Hooked On Music' performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

'Red Neck Mother' performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

'My Way' performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

'Funky Stuff & King Of The Jungle Jam' performed by the Jesse Anderson Band

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