外文名：Boots Randolph 原名：Homer Louis Randolph III 别名：布兹·伦道夫 国籍：美国 出生地：肯塔基州帕迪尤卡 职业：萨克斯演奏家 生日：1927年6月3日 简介：Boots Randolph(1927年6月3日 - 2007年7月3日) 是一位美国音乐家，以其 1963 年的萨克斯热门歌曲“ Yakety Sax ”而闻名，这首歌成为了本尼·希尔秀的招牌曲调。兰道夫是一位多产的伴奏音乐家和纳什维尔 A 队的成员，曾参与过切特·阿特金斯、猫王、罗伊·奥比森、布伦达·李和阿尔·赫特等众多著名艺术家的录音。在 40 多年的音乐生涯中，兰道夫与许多流行、摇滚、爵士和乡村音乐艺术家一起在数百个场所演出过。 从艺历程：Tenor saxophonist Boots Randolph was an important contributor to the Nashville sound, the set of pop-flavored textures that dominated country music in the late '50s and early '60s. He was born in Paducah, KY, but grew up in small-town Cadiz, in Trigg County. Born Homer Louis Randolph III, he acquired the nickname "Boots" in childhood from his brother Bob. Randolph began playing the trombone in school and learned several other instruments, but by the time he was 16 he had begun to focus seriously on the sax. He honed his chops as a member of the U.S. Army Band during World War II. After the war, Randolph returned home and performed semi-professionally for some years around Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. In the late '50s, heard him play and suggested he move to Nashville. introduced Randolph to , who signed him to the RCA label. Randolph also quickly made the acquaintance of rival and performed on many recordings helmed as producer. Nashville's new corps of session musicians spent its leisure time in the Printer's Alley section of the city's downtown, an actual alley (between First and Second avenues) that offered entrance to various basement barrooms, and Randolph became one of the group. Like other Nashville players, he took enthusiastically to jazz and rock & roll in addition to country music. One single, the 1963 instrumental "Yakety Sax," showed Randolph putting all these influences together and delivering an extremely catchy tune; it became his only real hit. But Randolph was a consistent seller of LP albums (with 13 charted releases) in the 1960s and 1970s; offering pleasant saxophone covers of material from various genres of music, he became a counterpart to on guitar and on piano. He moved from RCA to the Monument label in 1966. For well over a decade, in addition, he averaged 200-300 studio sessions a year on recordings made by others. The saxophone heard on 's later records is likely to be Randolph's. In 1977, Randolph opened a successful club of his own in Printer's Alley; it endured into the 1990s and spawned another club in the Opryland U.S.A. area. Randolph remained active as an entertainer into the 2000s, and in 1994 the original Yakety Sax album was admitted into the unofficial country canon; it was reissued by Germany's Bear Family label. Randolph suffered a brain hemorrhage in late June 2007 and remained in a coma until his passing at the age of 80 on July 3, 2007.