B.B. Cunningham Jr.’s career carried on long after The Hombres. In 1997, three decades after writing & singing “Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out),” he joined Jerry Lee Lewis’s touring band on bass. Another chapter in a long Memphis music career. #JerryLeeLewis #BBCunningham #OneHitWondered #MusicSky

B.B. Cunningham’s father, Buddy Cunningham, launched Cover Records in 1959… The teenage B.B. would record several singles for the label, including 1959's self-penned “Trip to Bandstand” (credited as B-B). #BBCunningham #CoverRecords #OneHitWondered #MusicSky

“Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)” by The Hombres was written by organist/vocalist B.B. Cunningham Jr., the older brother of The Box Tops bassist/keyboardist Bill Cunningham. #BBCunningham #TheHombres #TheBoxtops #AlexChilton #BillCunningham #OneHitWondered #MusicSky

In 1967, as a member of The Hombres, B.B. Cunningham earned US #OneHitWonder honors when their greasy garage groovin’ “Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)” spent 10 weeks on the US #Billboard #Top40, peaking at #12. #TheHombres #BBCunningham #OneHitWondered #MusicSky

#OTD in 2012, 70-year-old US #OneHitWonder honoree B.B. Cunningham Jr. was shot and killed while working as a security guard at an apartment complex on Memphis’ SE side. According to police, Cunningham was responding to gunfire from another apartment complex nearby. #BBCunningham #OneHitWondered