Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)

Jimmie Rodgers ( born September 18, 1933, Camas, Washington, full name James Frederick Rodgers ) is an American pop music singer who with rock renderings of traditional folk songs had a string of hits, especially in the late 1950s.

Rodgers grew up in Camas on in Washington State, where he received piano and guitar lessons early. His first band he founded when he served in the United States Air Force. Later, he appeared in the Arthur Godfrey's talent shows and eventually signed with Roulette Records, the new label of the former RCA Records Leaders Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore.

Achievements

His only No. 1 hit on the Billboard charts had Rodgers in the summer of 1957 with his first single Honeycomb. In the UK charts, the song reached the Top 30 in the following year came Kisses Sweeter Than Wine ( U.S. # 3, UK # 7), Oh- Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again ( U.S. # 7), Secretly ( U.S. # 3 ), Are You Really Mine ( U.S. # 10) and 1962 English Country Garden ( UK # 5) in the top 10, he got his own show from March 1959 on NBC.

1962 Rodgers moved to " Dot Records" and in 1966 A & M Records. There he had in the same year a Top 40 hit with the title It's Over ( U.S. # 37 ) ( not to be confused with the version of Roy Orbison ), in next year's Child of Clay ( U.S. # 31), his last placement in the U.S. charts at all. In December 1967, he suffered some serious injuries in an incident. The exact circumstances were never officially released, it is known that he was stopped while driving and it came to a confrontation or an accident with patrol officers. Rodgers was due in which a skull fracture in the OP, a steel plate was used. He had to pause for some time. In 1969 he roamed with an album then one last time the charts.

Privacy and Others

Rodgers is married his third wife Mary and five children. He is not related to the country musician Jimmie Rodgers. Remarkably Rodgers is guitar style. In the company of his songs he played only a few major chords, minor and seventh chords no. Therefore, he tried a greatly simplified barre with your thumb from the top of the fingerboard and not, as usual, with the index finger from the bottom. The other fingers found no use. In a song accompaniment with multiple instruments, this simple form of guitar playing acoustically falls on hard.