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Costs Haley may be the neglected hero of early rock and roll & move. Elvis Presley and Pal Holly are ensconced within the heavens, changed into veritable constellations within the rock and roll music firmament, their music well known by authors and scholars along with the record-buying general public, virtually …

The Downhomers — sometimes spelled “Straight down Homers” or “Down-Homers” — were an Indiana-based country & western group founded in the first to mid-’40s, who had been notable for just two members: yodelling lead singer Kenny Roberts and his successor, Costs Haley. Based for a while in Fort Wayne, IN, …