Clifford Curry

Clifford Curry is a genuine spirit survivor, a veteran greater than 45 years in music but still kicking. The Knoxville, TN, indigenous joined up with the Echos while he still went to Austin SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in Knoxville; that they had been with us four years before Curry became a member of and supported Faye Adams on her behalf number 1 R&B smash “Tremble a Hand.” The revamped group cut two information as the renamed Five Pennies for Savoy Information (“Mr. Moon” and “My Center Trembles” in 1955 and 1956 respectively) and in addition waxed unreleased edges for Herald Information. Royalties, cash, and having less, triggered the group to splinter in various directions. Curry plus some various other Knoxville cronies shaped the Bingos, who lower a cope with Ernie Young’s Excello Information. Excello released the one on its Nasco subsidiary and renamed them the Hollyhocks; as before, nothing at all happened as well as the people disbanded into various other ventures. Curry discovered a well balanced gig using the Bubba Suggs Music group in 1959, keeping until 1964. The music group played around their house bottom, Clarksville, TN, and supported the main R&B functions that wheeled to their neck from the woods. He remaining after five years because Bubba couldn’t eyesight much beyond Clarksville, neither could the additional band people. Hit the street! Jack, you have to become kidding. Time for Knoxville, nearly a music Mecca either, Curry proceeded to go solo as Lovely Clifford. Revisiting Excello Information, Young documented four edges on Curry, ruining the first solitary by crediting “Items Got to PROGRESS” as Clifford Lovely. Curry was furious, 1st from Bingos to Hollyhocks, right now this crap. A follow-up first got it correct using the credit reading Lovely Clifford. The attempts stiffed, but that didn’t deter Curry, he is at music for the duration. He installed with even more Knoxville crooners — Luey & Duey Man, Bob Adams, Jerry Johnson, and Wayne Cronin — to create the Fantastic Six. Curry got a fetish with six-man organizations, his debut team the Five Pennies, regardless of the name, was six-men solid: Curry, the Meyers Brothers — John, Herbert, and Wayne — Charles Holloway, and Benjamin Washington. The Fabulous Six’s solitary over the miniscule Ridgecrest label out of La Grange, GA, is indeed obscure that historians and discographers neglect to consist of it within their encyclopedia-type manuals to spirit singles. As the Contenders, the same lineup trim “Mr. Dee Jay” on Blue Sky Information (1965), which didn’t move. Curry attempted his hands at songwriting (with Knoxville DJ Rob Galbraith) for others, with small achievement. The association with Galbraith bared fruits in 1967, not really with among their songs, however the Galbraith hookup with Hype Carson allowed Curry to cut a melody Carson kept the privileges to, entitled “She Shot a complete in My Spirit.” Carson created and released the record on Elf Information, which was written by Bell Information. Curry’s biggest strike showed at amount 95 pop and almost got into the R&B Best 40 at amount 45. Seven even more Elf singles implemented (from 1967–1969), along with three each on SSS, Caprice, and Abbott Information spanning 1970 to 1973, but non-e charted up to “She Shot…” Nevertheless, Curry’s achievement as an entertainer pass on towards the Carolina Seashores, where in fact the baritone became a best showman because of their musical occasions and a good purveyor of Seaside music, which is definitely whatever you can shag to and appearance cool carrying it out. The popular Seaside entertainer didn’t record once again until a link with Buddah Information in 1977 that led to two singles: “Body Store” and “Relocating Circles.” In 1980, he lower his first melody with the term “shag” in it; “Shag BESIDE ME” trailed by “Let us Have a celebration” arrived on Woodshed Information, the last name shedding in 1982. Two DJ-only singles for CC Information followed and singles on Ripete and Compleat got him through 1985. While Clifford’s recordings weren’t graph busters, they got performed in areas where he reigned as an entertainer of take note and held him occupied. He never ceased recording; liberating music, contributing support vocals on others albums, and performing commercials in to the millennium. Collectables Information outdid themselves in 1995 by liberating a 20-music compilation Compact disc of Curry’s recordings, many from the many one-off brands he documented for; Alpaloosa Information released Clifford’s Blues: The Provider in 1996. The Knoxville indigenous today lives in Nashville, TN, along with his irons still in the fireplace, and isn’t to become confused using the Clifford Curry who sang using the Notations or the Clifford Curry who blew some records using the Los Angeles-based Sly, Slick & Wicked.