Bumble & The Stingers hit " Nut Rocker", surf-rock group The Marketts (“Surfer’s Stomp”), and The Routers of “ Let’s Go” fame. Hall was a virtual one-man dynasty on the West Coast from the mid-1950s through the early 1970s, organizing such studio concoctions as B. This approach was widely imitated by arrangers all over the world. In 1958, he pioneered the usage of a Danelectro 6-string bass guitar as a supplement to standup bass on recording sessions with Ritchie Valens and others. The trio recorded for many of the emerging rock and roll and R&B artists on such labels as Aladdin, Rendezvous, and Specialty Records. In the mid-1950s, Hall moved to Los Angeles, California, and began doing session work with saxophone player, Plas Johnson, and drummer, Earl Palmer. He also worked as a talent scout for King Records, discovering such acts as Billy Ward and the Dominoes. In the late 1940s, he formed his own sextet which recorded for various labels including Jubilee, Decca, and RCA. During the 1940s he built up a considerable reputation as a session musician in New York City. Later he joined Earl Hines as musical arranger. In the group he was known by the nickname Lightnin'. He then worked around the country as a member of the Ernie Fields Orchestra, with whom he made his earliest recordings. Born in Morgan City, Louisiana, René Hall first recorded in 1933 as a banjo player with Joseph Robichaux in New Orleans.
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