Willie Ward

Guitarist Willie Ward released many well-remembered singles under various guises through the past due 1950s. Given birth to Ward Darby in Bluefield, WV, in the past due 1930s, he was an all natural guitarist from an early on age, with 16 had currently produced a name for himself locally, playing nation & traditional western. When rock and roll & roll arrived a couple of years later on, he produced the transition very easily enough, twisting his strings in the very best T-Bone Walker-cum-Chuck Berry design, and proved similarly adept at that audio. He was contracted to Ruler Information in Pittsburgh for a while, but later on authorized with Joe Averbach’s Charge Bee label, and got his 1st single out around the latter’s subsidiary label, Celebrity Records, in the summertime of 1958. That record, “Arrive Walk beside me” b/w “Feelings,” was acknowledged to your guitar Twins, that was made up of Ward Darby and fellow guitarist Jimmy Robinette. His following record, “Iggy Joe,” released another month, presented Willie Ward supported by Chuck Jackson as well as the Five Playboys, with Sam “THE PERSON” Taylor on saxophone. Ward shut out his profession on Charge Bee with several instrumentals, “Safari” and “WHAM-O,” which “Safari” were able to graph nationally and get yourself a parallel launch through Dot Information. Among the problems maintaining his career, aside from instances where he performed on others’ classes, lies in the many titles under which his information had been released — some had been issued acknowledged to Willie Ward, some to Ward Darby (plus some to “Ward Darby & the Raves”), among others to Willie Ward Darby.