Doug Poindexter

Doug Poindexter & the Starlite Wranglers were only the fifth or 6th white take action ever signed to Sunlight Records. Heavily affected by his idol Hank Williams, Poindexter was genuine nation; in fact, genuine hillbilly. The Starlite Wranglers circa 1953-1954 contains Bill Dark on standup bass, Tommy Sealey on fiddle, Millard Yeow playing metal guitar, Clyde Hurry on classical guitar, and Scotty Moore on guitar, with Poindexter offering the sinus, traditional, country-style performing and strumming a electric guitar aswell. Moore promises credit for getting Poindexter to Sam Phillips’ interest at Sunlight, and for arranging the program that led to Might of 1954; he certainly distributed songwriting credit on both edges of the causing single, the hillbilly-sounding “Today She Cares FORGET ABOUT” as well as the raunchy, nearly proto-rockabilly “My Sort of Having On.” The last mentioned pointed just how toward the audio that Moore would catch in regards to a month afterwards, when he and Elvis Presley met up at Sunlight for the very first time. Presley certainly was acquainted with Poindexter & the Starlite Wranglers, and acquired attended several their performances. It is also feasible that Poindexter performed without credit on many of Presley’s Sunlight recordings, including “Great Rockin’ Tonight,” and could have got helped in piecing together a number of the agreements. Presley also performed lots of regional shows at areas just like the Bel Surroundings Club using the Starlite Wranglers, which wasn’t generally an easy suit for their unabashed nation audio. which Poindexter continuing to prefer over Presley’s even more animated music. Down the road, Presley began dealing with Malcolm Yelvington’s music group, nonetheless it was with Poindexter’s music group that he performed a whole lot of early gigs once he was reducing records. Within the years since, Poindexter continues to be an omnipresent but elusive body in the storyplot of Sunlight Information and Elvis Presley, his music highlighted in the tour of the area, and his edition of events provided just as much play as Scotty Moore’s.