Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Obscure American Artists 1956-1963, Teen 190

 


Kitty Dee. Teen rock singer and songwriter.  

Johnny Dow. Teen Pop & Doo-Wop singer - three 45 released by Assault Records (small independent label from ?).

Jimmy Lane & The Knights. Rock group probably from Alabama - one 45 on Vestal Records (label from Birmingham, Alabama).

Joe Melson.  Teen pop singer and a BMI award winning songwriter.
Born the son of a sharecropper in Bonham, Texas. Joe began his life picking cotton in the hot fields of Bonham, and only dreaming of making an impact on the world through music.
Beginning in 1959, first at his home in Midland, Texas, and then in Nashville, Tennessee, Melson teamed up with Roy Orbison, who had just joined Monument Records, with whom he would soon write a string of hits.
Between 1960 and 1963, Melson recorded several singles of his own, for Hickory Records.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Melson


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