Tom Tall

Tom Tall (* December 27, 1937 in Amarillo, Texas, as Tommy Lee Guthrie, † June 14, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American country musician. His music is distinguished primarily by a mixture of pop, country and rockabilly.

• 2.1 Singles
• 2.2 albums

Life

Childhood and youth

Born and raised in Texas, Tom Tall showed early talent for singing. Besides, he was also on hunting and fishing interests. In his youth he was greatly influenced by Hank Williams and Hank Thompson; the age of twelve he had on the radio station in Snyder KSNY a first own radio show. In the year after his family moved to California, where he in 1953 with the record label owners Fabor Robison made ​​acquaintance. Tall later said: " I won the talent show, and he was there and saw me. He asked me to come out to his place and make a demonstration record. "

Career

After meeting with Robison Tall played in the Western Recorders studio in Hollywood a few demo tapes that he sent Robison. The was impressed and took Tall under contract. Talls first session took place six months later, with the four tracks were recorded. The backing band was the Louisiana Hayride house band, DJ, among other Fontana on drums and Floyd Cramer on the piano included. His first single was released on May 14, 1954 I Gave My Heart To Two People, a second followed in September. Meanwhile, Robison had to let the idea Tall sing a duet with Ginny Wright. Wright had with Jim Reeves already a Top 5 hit in the previous year. The duet Are You Mine Tall and Wright debuted at # 2 on the Billboard charts; However, their second single Boom Boom Boomerang was only a regional hit. As Wright in 1955 retired from the music business, Tall focused on solo projects.

In 1956 he found in Ruckus Tyler Creel Sisters and the other duet partner. With Tyler he published the rockabilly Title Do You Know and If You Know What I Know, with the Creel Sisters the pop song Whose Little Pigeon Are You?. After a tour through Texas along with Elvis Presley Tall center left Fabor Robison 1956 and moved to the small label legend in Hollywood. From 1955 to 1959 he was a member of various radio shows, such as the KRLD Big D Jamboree, the KFI Town Hall Party, the WSM Grand Ole Opry as well as a guest at the Ozark Jubilee. During the 1960s he took up on in the next decade, among others, on Columbia Records, Decca Records, Crest Records, Sundown Records and other plates. In Los Angeles, he became friends with the famous rockabilly singer Eddie Cochran. His biggest success of this period was Bad Bad Tuesday of 1964, took the number 25 in the charts.

1979 Tall decided to retire from the music business and began working as a businessman in Las Vegas. 1985 Tall returned to recording in a studio back and since then occurs sporadically again. Tall lived until his death in 2013 in Las Vegas.

Discography

Singles

The single- discography is complete to 1964. Other recordings at Columbia, Decca, Sundown, Blue Book and Scorpion are unknown.

Albums

• 2005: Are You Mine ( Bear Family Werkausgabe with Ginny Wright)