- Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
- His song "Ain't Got No Home" is used by Rush Limbaugh for his "Homeless Update".
- In a 2022 interview, he recalled creating the frog voice in high school to tease girls; he achieved the desired frog-like croak by inhaling and singing at the same time.
- At 15, he bought his first piano for $610 from Hall Piano in Metairie.
- His fans included the four members of the Beatles, who took him along as the opening act for a 1964 tour.
- He started taking piano lessons as a teenager, when New Orleans was a hotbed of musical activity.
- Henry used his trademark croak to improvise the song "Ain't Got No Home" one night in 1955. Chess Records' A&R man Paul Gayten heard the song, and had Henry record it in Cosimo Matassa's studio in September 1956. Initially promoted by local DJ Poppa Stoppa, the song eventually rose to number 3 on the national R&B chart and number 20 on the US pop chart.[4] The gimmick earned Henry his nickname of 'Frogman' and jump-started a career that endures to this day.
- He was still in high school when he joined Bobby Mitchell's band, the Topper.
- Henry played trombone in the L.B. Landry High School band.
- Striking out on his own, he recorded "Ain't Got No Home," which he wrote himself, at recording engineer Cosimo Matassa's studio. Across the verses of the song, Henry sang in his normal voice, in a falsetto and as the craggy-voiced frog.
- He was married seven times, with all marriages ending in divorce.
- Henry opened eighteen concerts for the Beatles across the US and Canada in 1964, but his main source of income came from New Orleans's Bourbon Street strip, where he played for nineteen years.
- Henry toured nationally with a six-piece band until 1958, and continued to record. A cover of Bobby Charles' hit "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do", and "You Always Hurt the One You Love", both from 1961, were his other big hits.
- On his 1981 Live/Indian Summer album, Al Stewart introduced his song "Year of the Cat" with an odd anecdote about a mistaken-identity encounter involving Henry, Audrey Hepburn, and G. Gordon Liddy wearing an Elvis Presley mask.
- Clarence "Frogman" Henry, was an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist.
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