Newton Collier

 

Rose Hill

Happy birthday to The Dean Of Macon Music, Newton Collier!  Listen to Newt tell the story of the James Brown/Joe Tex fight at Club 15.  

Newton Collier Month

Newton Collier was decended from Charles Collier who owned the Silas Green Show, one of the country's largest vaudeville troupes.  His parents led a group called The International Sweethearts Of Rhythm.

He started taking piano lessons from Gladys Williams at age 9.  He came for a lesson one day and Sammy Davis Jr. was hanging out on the couch.  Sammy handed Newton his first trumpet and that was all it took.  Newt was listening to Hamp Swain on WIBB and began sneaking into parties.  He was playing with Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers by age 16.  Sam & Dave hired him when he was 17.  He's appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, Merv Griffin and The Beat!!!!

I Take What I Want (1966)

Newton Collier Month

Watch Newton get down on the Ed Sullivan Show with Sam & Dave - '69.

Trumpet man in the middle.

April Is Newton Collier Month On Ichiban

Newton not only played trumpet with everyone from the Pinetoppers to Sam & Dave, he is the Keeper Of The Knowledge.  Macon, Georgia is where it all began.