Jack Earls
Jack Earls ( born August 23, 1932 in Woodbury, Tennessee ) is an American country and rockabilly singer who is best known for his title Slow Down.
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 albums
Life
Childhood and youth
For most of his childhood spent Earls on his parents' farm. He had six siblings. Early on, he was enthusiastic about country music and was influenced by its neighbors, both dominated an instrument. At age 16, he learned to play the guitar and a year later he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, which later became the birthplace of rockabilly. Early in 1949 he founded his own band, with which he appeared sporadically.
Career
But his career first had to wait for 1950 Earl had married and was now about to start a family. With his new band, which he had founded in 1954, but he soon played in and around Memphis in pubs and bars. His bass player was at that time Johnny Black, brother of the famous bassist Bill Black.
In the summer of 1955 made Earl and his band private recordings in Memphis Recording Service. At the same time Elvis Presley was about Mystery Train einzuspielen. Since Presley did not know the text of this R & B songs, Earls had to get a plate of the original by Junior Parker. So Plattellabelbesitzer Sam Phillips became aware of Earl and his band.
Your title Hey Jim, the Earl had written, impressed Phillips. But before Phillips was able to start the production, played Earl and his band, which now The Jimbo were called, before his rockabilly piece Slow Down. Instead of Hey Jim Slowdown has now been released with the B- side A Fool for Loving You You. In 1956, the title to a local hit, which itself was played by DJs in Texas and sold over 50,000 copies. However Earls performance opportunities were severely limited, as he had at the same time still have a job to support his family. This hindered his career considerably, for the simple reason that he could not take any tours. Earl and his band still took on more than a dozen other titles from Sun, but remained unpublished. In 1957, the contract ran out at Sun and Earl retired, despite offers of Meteor Records and King Records, from the music business.
He then moved with his family to Detroit, Michigan, where he worked at Chrysler. In the 1970s he published a few plates, but remained largely unnoticed. However, during the rockabilly revival became Earls celebrity, not only in America but also in Europe. He stepped back publicly on, among other things, Janis Martin and Sleepy LaBeef, two of the most popular rockabilly artists. Even today, Jack Earls, appear publicly. His Sun recordings were released in 1997 by Charley Records. In the years 2001 and 2002 Earls published his first albums.
Discography
Singles
- Slow Down
- Rock Bop
- Be-Bop -A- Lula
- I Started Rockin ' A Long Time Ago
- They Can not Keep Me From You
- Comin ' Back Home
- Crawdad Hole
- Game Of Love
- If You Do not Mind
- Let's Bop
- My Gal Mary- Ann
- Rock Bop
- Sign On The Dotted Line
- Take Me To The Place