Monday, 29 June 2026

Obscure American Artists 1956-1963, Teen 224

 



Larry Dowd & The Rock-A-Tones. Rock & Roll singer from Iowa (1940 - 2006). He had formed his own band, The Rock-A-Tones, by 1958. Apart from Dowd, the original members were 24-year old guitarist Ivan Rousseau, 22-year old drummer Ron Fiscel, 21-year old bassist Don Archer and 17-year old pianist Mickey Montgomery. Four tracks were recorded in the spring of 1959, at the Vic Blacketer Studio in Des Moines.
https://tims.blackcat.nl/messages/larry_dowd.htm

Rick Durham & The Dynamics. Rock & Roll singer from Little Rock, Arkansas. He recorded at E&M Recording studio and label from Little Rock and at Razorback Records of Newport, Arkansas.



Rusty Evans. Born Marcus Uzilevsky in New York City, in 1937 - died in 2015. Evans initially recorded in 1958 as a rockabilly singer, before performing as a Greenwich Village folk musician in the early 1960s.

In 1965 he was briefly part of The New Christy Minstrels.

In 1966, Evans assembled a group of New York musicians to record as The Deep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_(band)







Jay Fanning (& The Twilights). Rockabilly musician from Kentucky. Recorded for Acme Records (label from Brightshade, Kentucky).




Ellie Gee & The Jets. Ellie Gee was one of several pseudonyms that top Brill Building songwriter Ellie Greenwich recorded under during her early career. In the summer of 1960, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich recorded Barry's "Red Corvette", which was released as a single under the name Ellie Gee and The Jets.



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