A fact from Carl Hogan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 May 2012 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the "most famous signature in rock 'n' roll" – the opening riff to Chuck Berry's 1958 hit " Johnny B. Goode" – was actually a jazz riff played 12 years earlier by Carl Hogan? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carl Hogan.

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In the 1940 US Census, there is listed - here - a Carl Hogan, musician, aged 22, "negro", born in Arkansas. This would give his birth date as about 1918. He is lodging, in Conway, Arkansas, with a bunch of other black musicians - Napoleon Fuller (age 26, "orchestra leader"), John T Brown (23), Emmett Carter (21), Lewis Robinson (21), H L Williamson (19), Robert Walker (18), and General Walker (22). This is pure original research from primary sources and therefore inappropriate for the article - but does it help anyone else in researching Hogan's background? The names of the other musicians mean nothing to me, but may mean something to those with more expert knowledge of the bands around in Arkansas at that time. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 22:52, 21 December 2012 (UTC) reply

Just noticed that this source - highly reputable in my view - takes that census record as being "our" Carl Hogan - though the book suggests he was born in Alabama, and the census gives Arkansas. Hmm.. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 10:59, 17 March 2015 (UTC) reply

There were at least two musicians called Carl Hogan - one was a singer in the Valentines - here and here - and I'm pretty sure he was not the same man as Louis Jordan's guitarist. I strongly suspect that the songwriting mentioned in this article was by the Valentines' Hogan, and not Louis Jordan's Hogan. Can anyone confirm this? Ghmyrtle ( talk) 15:41, 16 March 2015 (UTC) reply

Looks like it's a problem with the cited webpage. I've removed the following content until it can be verified one way or another. matt ( talk) 09:17, 17 March 2015 (UTC) reply

===Songwriting=== In the 1960s and 1970s, Hogan wrote songs for [[Carol Lynn Townes]], [[The Main Ingredient (band)|The Main Ingredient]] and [[The Dixie Cups]].<ref name="Discogs bio" />

Thanks! Ghmyrtle ( talk) 09:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC) reply