[2] In 1954, he signed with Mercury Records as a bandleader and had his biggest hit, the instrumental "Hand Clappin'" in 1955.

[2] During the same year, he joined the band that played at Alan Freed's stage shows.

[2] He also played on several hit records by his brother, singer Arthur Prysock, in the 1960s.

[5] Prysock was born in 1926 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States,[2] and died of a heart attack in 1993 in Chicago, at the age of 67.

[1][6] He served in the United States Army during World War II, which was when he learned to play saxophone.