Lee Dresser

Guitarist, harmonica participant and vocalist Lee Dresser joined with senior high school close friends, Willie Craig and Fred Fletcher, to create a rockabilly music group, The Krazy Kats, in 1957. They released many amazing recordings including an individual, “Defeat Out My Like” b/w “Wiggley Small Mama” in 1959 along with a full-length record, Movin’ Out!, in 1964. A lot more than four years later, Dresser as well as the Krazy Kats stay one of the hardest functioning Midwestern rings. Inducted in to the Rockabilly Hall of Popularity, in 1999, they’ve performed their addresses of classic music through the 1950s and ‘60s at around a lot more than three thousand displays. The son of the government worker dad along with a ballerina mom, Dresser dropped both parents young and was raised by his maternal grandparents in Moberly, Missouri. Teaching himself to try out guitar, at age fourteen, he didn’t start performing seriously before middle-1960s, when he was drafted in to the United States Military, after briefly participating in Moberly Junior University and Missouri College or university. Delivered to Viet Nam, where Craig have been sent the prior year, he created a solo become a singer-songwriter. Relocating to LA, after getting his honorary release, Dresser found work being a guitarist and harmonica participant for Danny Thomas, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard as well as the Oak Ridge Guys. Putting your signature on with Capitol, he documented several singles within the early-1970s and symbolized america on earth Popular Song Celebration, in Tokyo, in 1972. His vocals had been heard in the soundtrack of 1975 film, The Ventures FROM THE Wilderness Family members, and through the Nation Bear Jamboree present at Disney Globe. His songs had been included in Pat Boone, Bobby Sherman, the Osmonds, Trini Lopez and Ray Cost. Despite his achievement in southern California, Dresser skipped his previous musical partners. Once the Krazy Kats had been revived, in 1980, he started shuttling backwards and forwards, by airplane, between California and Missouri. Because the band’s timetable intensified, he transferred back again to Missouri in 1985.