Curley Money
Curley Money ( born March 20, 1925 in Halesburg, Alabama, as Robert Earnest Money, † December 23, 2003 in Columbus, Georgia) was an American rockabilly and country musician and guitarist.
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 albums
Life
Childhood and youth
Curley Money's year of birth is disputed. In addition, some sources give 1925 also 1923 as his year of birth. Money was the youngest of six children and shortly after two of his brothers began to play an instrument, he also got a guitar. The Young Money dreamed of a career as a country musician.
Career
As a young man Money then moved to Columbus, Georgia. Again, the year is disputed; According to Collin Escott he left in 1942 Halesburg, according to Adam Komorowski first eight years later. It is clear, however, that money in Columbus his own band, the Rhythm Ramblers, founded and with it occurred in the transmitter WGBA program and later had his own television show on WRBL - TV. Next to him also Moneys nephew Comer was a member of a group, should make records in the 1960s for the labels of his uncle. The Rhythm Ramblers also toured through the United States.
In 1956, Money his first record label Rambler Records, on which in April of the same year his first single Playing The Game appeared. The song was (as well as the B-side ) was pure Country; already in September 1956 Money made recordings in the studio of Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. His only known title there was Chain Gang Charlie, a hillbilly boogie remained unpublished. While money for his own label continue resumed Country Boogie pieces, he attended in the years to more times the Sun Studios. 1958 appeared on the Sun's sub-label Phillips International, the single The Frog / A Little Blue Bird Told Me, in which Lee Mitchell is heard as a singer and Money is merely a band background musicians. Until the mid- 1960s, he continued to record on his two labels Rambler Money and country and rockabilly.
In the 1970s, Money played some plates for Gold Standard Records in Nashville einzuspielen. But during the entire time he worked as a radio presenter at WHYD in Columbus, where money remained until his death. Already in 1985 an album was released with twelve of his songs by Bison Bop.