Tommy Roe

Widely regarded as among the archetypal bubblegum artists from the past due ’60s, Tommy Roe cut some fairly decent rockers on the way, specifically early in his career — many displaying some fairly prominent Buddy Holly roots. Actually, Roe’s preliminary pop smash, 1962’s chart-topping “Sheila,” was quite similar to Holly’s “Peggy Sue,” employing a virtually identical throbbing drumbeat and Roe’s hiccuping vocal. The vocalist had previously slice the music for small Judd label before remaking it in excellent type for ABC-Paramount. The infectious “Everybody” — another sizzling item another yr — was waxed in Muscle mass Shoals at Rick Hall’s Popularity studios, normally an R&B-oriented service (it isn’t well known that Roe published tunes for the Tams, a raw-edged spirit group from his Atlanta hometown). Once Roe veered off on his squeaky-clean bubblegum tangent, he trapped with it for all of those other 10 years. His lighthearted “Nice Pea” and “Hooray for Hazel” burned off the graphs in 1966, and he was still at it 3 years afterwards when he waxed his biggest strike, “Dizzy,” and “Jam Up Jelly Tight.”