Soul Counts, before joining G.G.'s "Rollercoasters." The band toured throughout the United States and helped back big-name musicians on the stage and in the recording studio. The Boogie Kings, organized as loose co-operative, voted to replace Ned Theall while in Los Angeles in 1967. The band returned to Louisiana, and selected Jack Hall as leader. Ned organized a group featuring Duane Yates on vocals, Jon Smithey on sax, and Bobby Ramirez on drums. In 1968, Ned Theall took back The Boogie Kings, and the band continued to play in Louisiana and southeast Texas. By 1968, the band started going through a succession of vocalists, most of them very talented in their own right, though the stage excitement wrought by Clint West, G.G. Shinn, Jerry LaCroix, and Duane Yates was seldom recaptured. These vocalists included Rosemary Clark, Buddy Wright, Little Alfred Babineaux, James Anderson, and Johnny Giordano, to name just a few. Turnover among the sidemen began to accelerate as well. By the end of 1969, only Jack Hall and Dan Silas remained from the group's heyday. The group called it quits in 1972–73. The first of many "reunions", organized by Theall, began in 1974 at the Texas Pelican Club between Lake Charles, Louisiana and Orange, Texas, setting the style for various reunions over the subsequent years. They reformed in 1975 and 1982. In the late 1980s, the band released "Cajun Soul" in 1988 and "Nine Lives" in 1989. After that recording, the band disbanded. They reunited in 1991 and went back to recording swamp pop music. The band released three albums in the 1990s and another in 2007. Yet another has yet still to be released and was recorded in 2008. The man who had been the band's leader and driving force for so many years, Ned Theall, suddenly died on January 8, 2010. As would be expected, there was some question as to whether the band could or would survive. On May 16, 2010, at the LMHOF Louisiana Music Homecoming held in Erwinville, Louisiana, the Boogie Kings, and Ned Theall himself, were inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame, honoring their 55 years of excellence and crowd pleasing music. Recordings All in all, The Boogie Kings have released twelve studio albums, three compilations and a double compilation album, including an upcoming studio album yet to be released. All albums were (and still are) recorded on Jin Records. The