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Tony & Jackie Lamie

Rockabilly

”probably the best Rockabilly double-sider ever made (in my opinion)”

always klick on pic’s.

Sorry! No Pic.!

Unknown town, Virginia, USA

Born / Dead Unknown

(Virginia are only my guess??)

Virginia
Sorry  Pic

Found this text in Billboard Magazine years ago (can’t find it again) the only info there is to find about these guys.

"About April 1958, a one-off single appeared on the Sunset label out of Tannersville, Virginia - the sole release by that imprint - both sides of which are so ridiculously good that it seems unthinkable that those responsible never did anything else in the music business. Perhaps they changed their names. Perhaps they died. Whatever the story, that lone 45, ‘Wore To A Frazzel’/ ‘Sunset Blues’, by Tony and Jackie Lamie with the Swing Kings, beats the output of many well-rewarded 1950s chart artists absolutely hollow. Lyrically and musically it’s got what the trade papers called that ‘back shack’ sound, and the band rattle along like an express train running on hill-country hooch. We know that Tony Lamie sings the vocal, and one or the other of the Lamies wrote the songs, because it says so right there on the label. Starday issued it as part of a custom deal, but that’s about all that can be said, except that it sounds like the work of people who knew exactly what they were doing, and had a hell of a fine time in the studio doing it."

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Original release, SUNSET 45-706 (US) 04/1958

This release, repro SUNSET 45-706 [1974]

 Wore to a frazzel  //  Sunset blues

Wore to a Frazzel - 1958

Sunset Blues - 1958


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