Curtis Gordon
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Curtis Gordon (July 27, 1928 – May 2, 2004) was an American rockabilly singer.
Gordon was heavily influenced by
high school to be the lead singer of his own band, which included fiddle player Jimmy Bryant. His parents demanded that he return to school and give up the band; he did so, though he moonlighted with a band called Pee Wee Mills & the Twilight Cowboys, who operated out of Gulfport, Mississippi. He formed a new Western swing band of his own at age 21 and began touring the Southeast United States. Gordon served in the Army briefly during the Korean War; while there he met Roger Miller
, whom he later helped get signed.
In June 1952, an employee of
rock & roll movement had changed tastes. His recordings of 1956-57 are a mix of Western swing, rock and roll, and straight country music
.
He played regularly in Mobile, Alabama and toured the South sporadically. He recorded with Dollie Records at the end of the 1950s, his last major contract; he continued performing locally for some time after that. He ran a dance club in Georgia in the 1970s and returned to rockabilly performing in the 1980s as the Europeans revived it.
Discography
| Title | Catalog number | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| RCA Records | |||
| The Greatest Sin / You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet | 20-5062 | ||
| If You Tell Me One More Lie / What’s A Little Pride | 20-5182 | ||
| Rocky Road Of Love / Rompin’ And Stompin’ | 20-5356 | ||
| I Just Don’t Love You Anymor / Where You’d Get So Much Of | 20-5461 | ||
| Little Bo-Peep / Tell ‘Em No | 20-5550 | ||
| I’d Do It For You / You Crazy, Crazy Moon | 20-5639 | ||
| Divided Heart / Caffeine and Nicotine | 20-5760 | ||
| Baby, Baby Me / I’d Like To Tell To | 20-5818 | ||
| Mercury Records | |||
| Chopsticks Mambo / Don’t Trade | 70538 | ||
| Blue Lifetime / Baby, Please Come Home | 70648 | ||
| Sixteen / Cry, Cry | 71121 | ||
| Our Secret Rendezvous / Girl With A Future | 70708 | ||
| Too Young To Know / Hello, Old Broken Heart | 70791 | ||
| Draggin’ / Mobile, Alabama | 70861 | ||
| Play The Music Louder / Hey, Mr. Sorrow | 70933 | ||
| So Tired Of Crying / I Know My Baby’s Gone | 71037 | ||
| Sittin’ On Top / Out To Win Your Heart | 71097 | ||
| I Wouldn’t / Please Baby, Please | 71183 | ||
| Dollie Records | |||
| Oh, Lonely Heart / Each Time You Go | 3276 | ||
| From Memphis To New Orleans / For The Last Time | 10050 | ||
References
- Curtis Gordon at Allmusic
- About Curtis Gordon
- Matthew Duncan, UK record collector, provided information in the form of title details for the RCA discography section.
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