Wednesday, 5 June 2013

STARDAY RECORDS 673

BILLIE and GORDON HAMRICK with Red Farrell
Oct 57  (Billboard Review on 23rd November 1957.) 
(BMI Clearance on 27th December 1957.)
45-673-A - Cruel Jealous Heart
(Nell Palmer)   (Starrite BMI)
45-673-B - Gypsy Waltz
(Nell Palmer)   (Starrite BMI)
STARDAY RECORDS 673

B Side notation reads “ . . with Red Farrell with Smokey Joe Ellis and Frank Addis, twin fiddles”.

Gordon B. Hamrick born November 18, 1917 in Douglasville, GA, died December 30, 2001. He served in the U.S. Army in the Panama Canal Zone in the 1930s and continued military service in the Coast Guard through WWII on the USS Savage as a Chief. He also managed grocery stores in Jacksonville and performed gospel music with wife Billie in Charleston, SC on a television show called The Old Country Church in the 1950s and 60s. Billie and Gordon continued performing gospel music up until his retirement in 1998.

Source: Lars Lundgren



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