final years David Francis died on November 13, 2001, following a stroke, at age 82. Discography As leader Latin American Dixieland (MGM, 1954) Exploding Drums (Epic, 1959) The Beat Behind the Million Sellers (ABC-Paramount, 1960) Gettin' in the Groove (Black and Blue, 1979) Panama Francis and the Savoy Sultans (Classic Jazz, 1980) As sideman With Eddie Barefield Eddie Barefield (RCA, 1974) The Indestructible E. B. (Famous Door, 1977) With Ray Bryant Groove House (Sue, 1963) Hot Turkey (Black and Blue, 1979) With Milt Buckner Green Onions (Black and Blue, 1975) Midnight Slows Vol 6 (Black and Blue, 1977) With Solomon Burke If You Need Me (Atlantic, 1963) King Solomon (Atlantic, 1968) With Cab Calloway Hi De Ho Man (Columbia, 1974) Jumpin' Jive (CBS, 1984) With Arnett Cobb Jumpin' at the Woodside (Black and Blue, 1974) The Wild Man from Texas (Black and Blue, 1977) Keep On Pushin' (Bee Hive, 1984) With Ray Conniff 'S Awful Nice (Columbia, 1958) Ray Conniff's Concert in Stereo (CBS, 1970) Live in Japan (CBS, 1975) With Sam Cooke My Kind of Blues (RCA Victor, 1961) Twistin' the Night Away (RCA Victor, 1962) With Dion DiMucci Runaround Sue (Laurie Records, 1961) With Earl Hines Hines '74 (Black & Blue, 1974) Earl Hines at Sundown (Black & Blue, 1974) The Dirty Old Men (Black and Blue, 1978) With John Lee Hooker It Serve You Right to Suffer (Impulse! Records, 1966) With Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry A Long Way from Home (Bluesway, 1969) I Couldn't Believe My Eyes (Bluesway, 1969 [1973]) With Wilson Pickett In the Midnight Hour (Atlantic Records, 1965) With Big Joe Turner Singing the Blues (BluesWay, 1967) Joe's Back in Town (Black and Blue, 1974) Effervescent (Classic Jazz, 1979) With others Red Allen, Jazz at the Metropole Cafe (Bethlehem, 1955) Casey Anderson, The Bag I'm In (Atco, 1962) Cat Anderson, Cat on a Hot Tin Horn (Mercury, 1958) Doc Bagby, A Place in the Sun (Current, 1967) Mickey Baker, The Blues and Me (Black and Blue, 1974) Emmett Berry, Buddy Tate, Beauty and the Blues (Columbia, 1960) Big Maybelle, Gabbin' Blues and Other Big Hits (Epic, 1968) Eubie Blake, The Marches I Played on the Old Ragtime Piano (20th Fox, 1960) Nappy Brown, Don't Be Angry! (Savoy, 1984) Oscar Brown Jr., Sin & Soul (Columbia, 1960) Gene Conners, Coming Home (Belter, 1978) Dorothy Donegan, The Many Faces of Dorothy Donegan (Mahogany, 1975) Roy Eldridge,