Weldon Rogers
Weldon Rogers ( * October 30, 1927 in Marietta, Oklahoma; † 13 September 2004 in Perryton, Texas) was an American rockabilly and country musician and producer. Rogers, Roy Orbison's first album on his Jewel label.
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 albums
Life
Childhood and youth
Weldon Rogers was born near the city of Marietta in Love County. His family moved to Lamesa, Texas, when he was eight years old. Rogers grew up in the neighborhood of the later Country musician Johnny Bond and sang in the small church choir of the church. As a young man he was drafted into the Army and was stationed in Italy until 1947. During his military service, he began to sing and learned to play the guitar, but more came from the experiment out to kill boredom.
Career
After his discharge from the army Rogers moved to California, where he worked for the Douglas Aircraft Company in Santa Monica. In addition, he has performed in bars and clubs on weekends to earn some extra money. From time to time, Rogers traveled to Texas, where in 1954, finally found work as a disc jockey at the radio station KSML in Seminole. Roger formed his own band and it was not long since Rogers made after one of his shows with the band acquaintance with Winifred " Wink " Lewis, the owner of the Queen Records. In July 1955 Rogers then traveled to San Antonio, where he recorded his first album in Bob Tanner TNT studio. In this session he was accompanied by Shorty Underwood and its Brushcutters, which also took up some pieces. In addition, Rogers younger brother Willie had accompanied him on the trip to San Antonio, and together with Rogers on the piece I'm Building A? ( On The Moon ) heard.
After the departure Wink Lewis' from the region Rogers opened his own record label, Jewel Records. The name was formed from the initial letters of the daughter of Roger's business partner and his own initials. In April 1956, Rogers released a single of a young singer named Roy Orbison, who had just been ' signed with his band, the Teen Kings at Rogers label. The agreement was, however, shortly afterwards declared invalid, since Orbison was still a minor and his parents had not signed. Therefore, the plate had to be removed from the shops again. Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, use this opportunity and took Orbison instead under contract and could produce Ooby Dooby with Orbison's first hit. Ironically, Rogers played a year later at Imperial Records, even with the Teen Kings, as these had separated from Orbison. Rogers recalled his time at Imperial as follows: "I was signed to a contract. I went down to Wink, Texas, and got Roy Orbison 's band, the one he had used on ' Ooby Dooby '. [ ... ] When I left [ Texas] I had three songs written and on the way to the session with Roy 's band in the car with me I said ' Well, if I do not get to record four songs to take back to Lew Chudd, it 's gonna be so long, good luck, goodbye! ' " James Morrow, the mandolin player of the band, said that So Long, Good Luck, Goodbye be a good song title and according to Rogers' own words, he drove the rest of the way with one hand, because he wrote the song with the other.
Together with his wife Wanda Rogers took over the coming years to further plates until the couple divorced in 1968. One of their songs was Everybody Wants You, that was actually just a cover of Everybody's Tryin 'To Be My Baby. In the early 1970s, Rogers was at K -Ark under contract and married again in 1972. 1981 gave Rogers his career as a musician on; 1989, after he had several radio stations in Stamford, Texas, and Grants, New Mexico, led, Rogers retired. Published in 1998, Bear Family Records CD of Rogers tracks titled Tryin ' To Get To You.
Discography
Singles
- The Sale of Broken Hearts
- Trying To Get To You
1 Trying To Get To You ( Imperial X5451 ) was really just a re-release of Roy Orbison - version.