Gene Barge

This article is about Gene Barge, also known as Daddy G. For Daddy G OF Massive Attack, see Daddy G.

Gene Barge, a founding member of the 1960's band The Church Street Five, was born in Norfolk, VA (USA) circa 1929, is an accomplished tenor and alto saxophonist and composer in several bands.

In 1961, The Dovells charted a #2 song called The Bristol Stomp which refers to Bristol, PA (USA) and includes the line "We ponied and twisted and we rocked with Daddy G". Since Gene Barge had written "A Night With Daddy G", many applied the pseudonym 'Daddy G' to him. It is not known whether the 'Daddy G' of that 1961 song lyric was intended to be Gene Barge or Bishop 'Daddy' Grace, a Norfolk, VA evangelist, whose church address was the inspiration for the naming of "A Night With Daddy G".

Barge has toured and played with such notables as Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, Big Joe Turner, LaVern Baker, Ray Charles, Chuck Willis, The Rolling Stones and Natalie Cole; and he had roles in major movies starring Gene Hackman, Chuck Norris, Harrison Ford and Steven Seagal. He has also toured in recent years under the pseudonym 'Daddy G.'