Warren Storm, born Warren Schexnider on February 18, 1937, in Leroy, Louisiana, was an American drummer and vocalist. He learned to play drums and guitar from his father, a Cajun musician, and began performing publicly with Larry Brasso and the Rhythmaires in the early 1950s. Storm's breakthrough came in 1958 when he released "Prisoner's Song" / "Mama Mama Mama (Look What Your Little Boy's Done)" on Nasco Records, which entered the Billboard Hot 100 and became lifelong standards for him. Throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, Storm served as a session drummer for producer J.D. "Jay" Miller and appeared on numerous swamp blues sessions for Excello Records. He recorded swamp pop music for various labels, including Rocko, Zynn, and Dot. In the early 1960s, he formed The Shondells with Rod Bernard and Skip Stewart, performing until their disbandment around 1970. Storm continued to release songs on multiple labels, recording regional favorites such as "Lord I Need Somebody Bad Tonight" and "My House of Memories". In the 1980s and '90s, he was a regular house musician at south Louisiana dance clubs and recorded Cajun Born with fellow musicians Rufus Thibodeaux, Johnnie Allan, and Clint West. Storm experienced a resurgence in popularity around 2000 when he joined the Lil' Band of Gold. He was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame on September 5, 2010. Warren Storm died on September 7, 2021, at the age of 84.
