Rockabilly

& The Five Strings

”The King Brosthers”

always klick on pic’s.

Birth name Sidney Erwin aka Sid Erwin & The Western Melody Makers (1953 - 1954) [pic.] /  Sid King & The Five Strings (1955 - 1958)

Sid King and the Five Strings was an American country and rockabilly band. Some of their better known titles are Shake This Shack Tonight, Sag, Dragg and Fall or Purr Kitty Purr. 

Career  The beginnings of the band go back to the beginning of the 1950s. Sid Erwin (* 1936) appeared with school friend Melvin Robinson on the radio station KDNT. Later, Erwin's brother joined Billy Joe as guitarist and Dave White as drummer. The group was called The Western Melody Makers. Under this name, they played in various honky-tonks and bars country music in Texas until they signed in 1953 at the Starday Records, where she released a single in total. 1954 changed the band to the Columbia Records and recorded their singles under the name Sid King and the Five Strings. Sid King was the frontman of the band; he played the guitar and took over the vocals. During this time they toured all over America and Canada, in 1956 they were even considered one of the best show bands in the US and could hardly save themselves from inquiries of various radio broadcasts to the Grand Ole Opry and the Louisiana Hayride. On their tours, they occasionally played together with rising stars like Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis in their shows at the same time they were in the same city. Her success was limited national appearances in the Opry and the Hayride on Texas, the national breakthrough, the band never made. In early 1958, the band bought their own club in Conrow, Texas, and appeared weekly on their own television program in Houston. However, in 1959 the band split up. In the following years, Sid King appeared alone and was under contract with Dot Records during the next decade. In 1965, Sid opened a hairdressing salon Sid's Hair Cutting in Richardson, Texas, where he still works today. Billy joined after several years as a sound engineer in Los Angeles in 1975 also in the hairdressing salon. Since the rockabilly revival in the early 1980s The two brothers are back in public at concerts in Europe and the US. In 1982 there was a reunion of the band's original line-up for a record recording. [2] In 2016, Sid and Billy recorded a new album whose title from One Cut to Another alludes to the barbershop.

This release, Original release, COLUMBIA 4-21505 (US) 03/1956

Blue suede shoes  b/w  Let'er roll

1954      Who Put The Turtle in Myrtle’s  Girdle?  b/w  If Tears Could Cry  -  Starday Records 

1955      Put Something In The Pot, Boy  b/w  I Like It  -  Columbia Records 

1955      Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee  b/w  Crazy Little Heart  -  Columbia Records 

1955      Sag, Drag and Fall  b/w  But I Don’t Care  -  Columbia Records 

1956      Purr, Kitty, Purr  b/w  I Want You Mama  -  Columbia Records 

1956      Let ‘Er Roll  b/w  Blue Suede Shoes  -  Columbia Records 

1956      Ooby Dooby  b/w  Booger Red  -  Columbia Records 

1956      Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight  b/w  Good Rockin’ Baby  -  Columbia Records 

1957      When My Baby Left Me  b/w  It’s True, I’m Blue  -  Columbia Records 

1957      I’ve Got The Blues  b/w  What Have Ya Got To Loose  -   Columbia Records 

1962      Hello There Rockin’ Chair  b/w  Once Upon a Time  -  Dot Records