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Hush Puppies is an American brand of casual footwear. A division of Wolverine World Wide, Hush Puppies is headquartered in Rockford, Michigan. Wolverine also licenses the Hush Puppies name for apparel, toys and accessories.
Hush Puppies uses a basset hound named Jason as its logo and mascot.




History



The Hush Puppies brand was founded in 1958 following extensive work to develop a practical method of pigskin tanning for the US military to use in gloves and other protective materials. Pigskin was soft and flexible, but not tough enough to be used in Wolverine's work boots; the company developed a pair of casual shoes from the pigskin to market as a comfort brand. The casual lifestyle positioning appealed to the growing post-war suburbia in the United States; by mid-1959 the company had produced its first million pairs and by 1963 one in ten adults in the United States owned a pair of Hush Puppies.
Hush Puppies claimed their rubber soles saved the life of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards when he accidentally touched his guitar against an ungrounded microphone at a 1965 concert in Sacramento, California. Richards was knocked unconscious, but medics believed that the crepe-soled Hush Puppies shoes he was wearing insulated him and saved his life.




= 1990s resurgence

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In 1994, when sales were down to 30,000 pairs a year, Hush Puppies suddenly became hip in the clubs and bars of downtown Manhattan where young people were buying them at small shoe stores. Fashion designers John Bartlett, Anna Sui, and Joel Fitzpatrick began featuring them in their collections; the shoes were soon worn by celebrities such as Kenneth Clarke, Princess Diana, Jim Carrey, Sharon Stone, David Bowie, Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres and Sylvester Stallone.

Hush Puppies also benefited from the trend toward dressing-down at work, filling the fashion gap between sneakers and dress shoes. Depending on word of mouth, Wolverine sold 430,000 pairs of the shoes in 1995, and four times that the following year. Hush Puppies won the prize for best accessory at the Council of Fashion Designers awards dinner in 1995.
Hush Puppies' rapid rise in popularity was used as an example of a tipping point by journalist Malcolm Gladwell.




References






External links


Official website—Hush Puppies.com
Spokane Daily Chronicle—late 1960s newspaper ad for Bozos oxfords - 1968-11-14 - p. 43
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Hush puppies may refer to:

Hushpuppy, a southern U.S. food
Hush Puppies, a footwear brand
HushPuppies, a musical group
Basset Hound, the dog breed used in advertising for Hush Puppies footwear
A version of the Smith & Wesson Model 39 firearm equipped with a suppressor and used by commandos in Vietnam to kill sentries during raids
Hush Puppy, a character in the children's series Lamb Chop's Play-Along




See also


Slush Puppie
Hushpuppi, one of several aliases of Ramon Abbas (born 1982), Nigerian fraudster and money launderer
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HushPuppies is a French garage rock and indie rock band influenced by the various bands of the 1960s. Members of the group live in Paris, France, although originate from Perpignan and Bordeaux.




Members


Singer: Olivier Jourdan
Guitar: Cyrille Sudraud
Drums: Franck Pompidor
Bass guitar: Guillaume Le Guen
Keyboard: Wilfried Jourdan (Olivier's brother)




Biography


Four of the band's members - Franck, Cyrille, Wilfried and Olivier - grew up in Perpignan, where they formed a group with others called the Likyds. This group specialised largely in cover versions of 1960s garage rock songs. The band split with four members later reuniting in Paris where they met up with Guillaume Le Guen from Bordeaux. This led to the formation in 2002 of HushPuppies.
The band describe their influences as being 1960s groups such as The Kinks, The Who and Small Faces.
In April 2003, their first demo went on sale, followed by a 12 track live album Live @ House of Live. In 2004, two EPs were released. The Garden being their first public presentation.
The following year, the band's first album, The Trap, went on sale. On September 13, they played for a live concert on a London bus, in Paris with a French radio, Le Mouv. The album became an independent hit, selling more than 20,000 copies.
The band's second album, Silence is Golden, was released in November 2008.
In 2008, their song "You're Gonna Say Yeah!" was featured on the soundtrack of Guitar Hero World Tour.
The band's fourth album titled Bipolar Drift was released in 2011.




Discography






= EP

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HushPuppies EP - 2004
Natasha
Classic
HushPuppies
All I Know
The Garden - 2004
HushPuppies
You And Me
Pale Blue Eyes
Automatic 6
You're Gonna Say Yeah! - 2005
You're Gonna Say Yeah!
Packt Up Like Sardines in a Crushtin Box
Single EP
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
CPPDCC (Ca Peut Plus Durer Comme Ca)
Packt Up Like Sardines in a Crushtin Box (Live)
Bad Taste And Gold On The Doors EP - 2008
Bad Taste And Gold On The Doors (I want my Kate Moss) (Radio Edit)
Bad Taste And Gold On The Doors (I want my Kate Moss) (Cucumber Remix)
Bad Taste And Gold On The Doors (I want my Kate Moss) (Munk & Thelonious Remix)




= Albums

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The Trap - 2005
1975
Packt Up Like Sardines in a Crushtin Box
You're Gonna Say Yeah!
Marthelot 'N' Clavencine
Sorry So
Pale Blue Eyes
Comptine
Bassautobahn
Alice in Wonderland
Single
You & Me
The Trap
Automatic 6
Silence Is Golden - 2007
A Trip To Vienna
Lost Organ
Moloko Sound Club
Bad Taste And Gold On The Doors
Love Bandit
Down, Down, Down
Fiction In The Facts
Lunatic's Song
Hot Shot
Broken Matador
Harmonium
The Bipolar Drift - 2010/2011
Open Season
Okinawa Living Wage
Stop
Low Compromise Democracy
Zero One
Every Night I Fight Some Giant
Frozen Battle
A Dog Day
Poison Apple
Rodeo
Twin Sister




= Live album

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Live @ House Of Live - 2003
Turn on the light
You ain't better
C song
Six feet under
Emma
Ça peut plus durer
All I Know
Natasha
Anybody's answer
HushPuppies
Classik
Behave




References






External links


Official Site
Official Myspace

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