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Fact #41039

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Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks record Searching, Sexy Ways and other tracks in New York City, USA, for Roulette Records. The Hawks include Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Levon Helm, who will go on, after joining forces with Bob Dylan, to form The Band.

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Robbie Robertson : I knew him because he'd been up playing in Toronto. They were the best thing that'd come around - them and Carl Perkins - and my ambition was to impress them somehow. So I tried very hard and practised a lot and finally they asked me if I'd care to join them. That's about all there was to it.

It was such a flash going down there from Canada. The big difference was that there's not a lot of black people in Canada like there is in the South. There were a lot of differences, and it was the first big flash that I'd had in my life, that's why all those things keep coming up, because I couldn't believe it.

Ronnie Hawkins : I've had better country bands, better r'n'b bands, but that was the best rock'n'roll band I ever had.
(Source - interview with Rob Mackie, Record Mirror, June 4, 1972)