Huey Long (singer) Huey Long (singer) Huey Long (April 25, 1904 – June 10, 2009) was an American jazz and swing singer-songwriter and musician and was a member of the close harmony vocal traditional pop group The Ink Spots. Born in Sealy, Texas, Long began his musical career in 1925 playing banjo for Frank Davis' Louisiana Jazz Band, based in Houston. He switched from the banjo to the guitar after moving to Chicago, where he appeared at the 1933 World's Fair with Texas Guinan's Cuban Orchestra. He performed with artists such as Lil Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and his career also encompassed sideman,
Huey Long (Keck) for the masses ….. marked him for death.” Long, a popular populist nicknamed “The Kingfish” was first Governor and then Senator from Louisiana and was assassinated in Baton Rouge on September 10, 1935 A very similar statue, without the raiser right arm, of Long by Keck was unveiled in 1940 on the grounds of the Louisiana State Capitol. Huey Long (Keck) Huey Long is a 1941 bronze sculpture of Huey Long by Charles Keck, installed in the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. It is one of two statues donated by the