Ray Sharpe
Ray Sharpe ( born February 8, 1938 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American rock ' n ' roll musician. Sharpe is considered by experts as the only " black rockabilly " because his style contained many elements of rockabilly. His biggest hit was Linda Lu.
Career
Ray Sharpe was born in Texas and was influenced by country music and the blues alike. Sharpe is also planned in his youth to start with rockabilly musician Ronnie Dawson a duo that they called The Oreo Crookies. However, they were clear about their fellow human beings (due to the U.S. at the time still prevailing racial segregation ) disapproved of this, so they left their projects fall again.
Sharpe began his musical career in 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona. The local music scene was mainly about the producer Lee Hazlewood, the Sharpe's first single, That's the Way I Feel / Oh, My Baby 's Gone published on the Jamie label. Already Sharpe's second plate, Linda Lu / Monkey's Uncle was his biggest hit and rose in 1959 in the national charts at number 48. Posted by Sharpe and again produced by Hazlewood, the two guitarists Duane Eddy and Al Casey could be heard on the recordings. Linda Lu has been covered in the following years by artists and bands such as The Rolling Stones, the Flying Burrito Brothers and Tom Jones.
Sharpe's subsequent singles were less successful. He recorded for a number of labels and played 1966 pieces with a Jimi Hendrix. It occurs to this day in the area of Fort Worth, Texas, on.