STARDAY RECORDS 596

TRUITT FORSE

Nov 56

45-596-A - Chicken Bop

(Forse)   (Starrite BMI)

45-596-B - Doggone Dame

(Forse)   (Starrite BMI)
STARDAY RECORDS 596

A monster, 2-sided rockabilly killer from Truitt, (Donald Truitt Forse), a cousin of Beamon Forse (See Rodney 514). A side is a fast guitar-led rocker with some nice rinky-dink piano. Truitt belts out both sides with gusto (as Billboard might have said) and the biting guitar solos remind me of Hal Harris on high-octane caffeine. Flip is slower, bluesier but not in the least inferior to the topside. Truitt  had some '60s / '70s country singles out under the name Don Force. (MC / Andrew Brown)

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Terry Gordon

Terry Gordon

BIG STATE RECORDS 595

JIMMY SIMPSON and his Oilfield Boys

Nov 56  (BMI clearance on 11 Jan 57)

45-595-A - Can I Come Home

(Jack Rhodes / Jimmy Simpson)   (Starrite BMI)

45-595-B - Memories Of You

(Jack Rhodes / Jimmy Simpson)   (Starrite BMI)

BIG STATE RECORDS 595

Box 1113, Greggton, TX

Jimmy D Simpson was born on 24th March 1928 in Sullivan Hollow, near Ashland City, TN. After stints in the Army (and Navy and the Paratroopers), he moved to Robert Lee, TX (near San Angelo) with his wife and made a living as a pipeliner. He became a DJ over KERC (Eastland, TX) and sang at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas. A career as an artist for Republic Records was cut short by the labels bankruptcy. He also recorded on Hidus Records (owned by Bill and Buddy Holman) based in a jewelry store in Springfield, TN.

Before he took off for Alaska as a contractor, he teamed up with Jack Rhodes for this release. The A side is bordering on rockabilly - nice vocals and a fine guitar dragging the band along at a fair clip. There's a steel guitar adding some nice fills in the background and it shares the solos with the guitar. Flip side is a ballad. These were recorded at a West Monroe, Louisiana radio station. Same session that produced Simpson's Jiffy single.

Jimmy also recorded on Starday and Nashville Records later on, amongst others. (MC / Al Turner / Andrew Brown)

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Phillip J Tricker

Phillip J Tricker