Merle Shelton

Merle Shelton had an excellent music lineage, as the sibling of Joe and Bob Shelton (co-authors with Sid Robin of 1927’s of “BECAUSE”) and a previous person in the Shelton Brothers Music group in the ’40s. He spent the majority of his profession like a sideman, and everything in the darkness of his two even more famous brothers, who have been featured on main radio stations such as for example KWKH in Shreveport, house from the Louisiana Hayride (which experienced famous brands Johnny Money and Faron Small, not forgetting a Elvis Presley), while Merle Shelton produced his way like a solo designer on the Sunday Night time Shindig on WFAA out of Dallas, a smaller sized competitor towards the Big D Jamboree that was, itself, a second-tier radio display next towards the Hayride. He was mostly of the recognizable artists from the Sunday Night Shindig who was simply not authorized to a documenting contract already, nevertheless, which got him selected by Joe Leonard for any joint recording program with Buck Griffin in the springtime of 1954, yielding two tunes, “Chilena, My Dance Woman” by Wayne Jetton (meant as the B-side, nonetheless it got even more airplay) and Shelton’s personal “I REALLY LIKE YOU MERELY Because.” Merle Shelton experienced a Western golf swing audio to his performing and playing, as well as the solitary made just a little sound in Tx and points close by, but neither his edges nor the Buck Griffin music cut at the same program ever charted. Shelton experienced remaining professional music by the finish from the ’50s, and offers since passed on.