The Rockabilly

Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating to the early 1950s.The term rockabilly is a portmanteau of rock and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style's development...

 Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame

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(name trademarked and registered) was established on the internet

Internet

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 on March 21, 1997, to present early rock and roll

Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

 history and information relative to the artists and personalities involved in this pioneering American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 music genre.

Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

, the first induction certificate was issued on November 16, 1997, for singer Gene Vincent

Gene Vincent

Vincent Eugene Craddock , known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps, "Be-Bop-A-Lula", is considered a significant early example of rockabilly...

. The creation of Bob Timmers, the not-for-profit entity maintains a website that is supported in part by the fans and artists of the music it represents. Over 5,000 legends are listed, over 350 have been inducted. The web site features news updates, artist profile pages, performer tribute pages, videos, photos and feature columns.

Among those recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame are pioneer singers, songwriters, disc jockeys and promoter/producers such as Sun Records

Sun Records

Sun Records is a record label founded in Memphis, Tennessee, starting operations on March 27, 1952.Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash...

 owner Sam Phillips

Sam Phillips

Samuel Cornelius Phillips , better known as Sam Phillips, was an American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s...

.

The Rockabilly Hall of Fame has been recognized by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum identifies and preserves the evolving history and traditions of country music and educates its audiences...

.

Inductees

• Art Adams
  Art Adams
  Arthur "Art" Adams is an American comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the American comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries Longshot...
  
  
• Tommy Allsup
  Tommy Allsup
  Tommy Allsup is an American musician.He worked with entertainers such as Buddy Holly and Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys...
  
  
• Alton & Jimmy
• Joey Ambrose (Bill Haley & His Comets)
• Bill "Peg Pants" Beach
  Bill "Peg Pants" Beach
  William Robert Beach is an American musician.-Early years:Beach was born on August 8, 1932 in Glencoe, KY, USA. He began his musical career as a teenager after borrowing a guitar from his cousin to learn a few chords...
  
  
• Blackwood Brothers
• Stan Beaver
  Stan Beaver
  Stan Beaver had a hit with "I Got a Rocket in My Pocket" in 1963 .-Career:Beaver's musical career began when he appeared on his father's television show in Atlanta, Georgia, when he was 5 years old and he sang "River of Memory".His only hit "I Got a Rocket in My Pocket" is now a collector's item...
  
  
• Boyd Bennett
  Boyd Bennett
  Boyd Bennett was an American rockabilly songwriter and singer.His two biggest hit singles, both written and performed by him, were "Seventeen" with his band, the Rockets ; and "My Boy, Flat Top" . "Seventeen" reached No. 16 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1955...
  
  
• Rod Bernard
  Rod Bernard
  Rod Bernard is an American singer who helped to pioneer the musical genre known as "swamp pop", which combined New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music...
  
  
• Eddie Bond
  Eddie Bond
  Eddie Bond was a pioneer singer and guitar player of American Rockabilly music.In the mid 1950s, Bond recorded for mercury Records and toured with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Warren Smith and others...
  
  
• Burl Boykin
• Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers
  Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers
  Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers are a Teddy Boy band from South Wales...
  
  
• Franny Beecher
  Franny Beecher
  Francis "Franny" Beecher , also known as Frank Beecher, was lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962, and is best remembered for his innovative guitar solos combining elements of country music and jazz...
  
  
• Donnie Brooks
  Donnie Brooks
  Donnie Brooks was an American pop music singer. Brooks is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  
  
• Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team best known for songs such as "Rocky Top," "Love Hurts" and numerous Everly Brothers hits, including "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bye Bye Love".-Beginnings:Boudleaux was born Diadorius...
  
  
• Sonny Burgess
  Sonny Burgess
  Albert Austin "Sonny" Burgess is an American rockabilly guitarist and singer....
  
  
• Paul Burlison
  Paul Burlison
  Paul Burlison was an American pioneer rockabilly guitarist and a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio. Burlison was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, where he was exposed to music at an early age. After a stint in the United States Military, Burlison teamed up with Johnny and Dorsey Burnette...
  
  
• Billy Burnette
  Billy Burnette
  William Beau "Billy" Burnette III is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter who was part of the band Fleetwood Mac from 1987 to 1995. Burnette also had a brief career in acting.-Family background:...
  
  
• Dorsey Burnette
  Dorsey Burnette
  Dorsey Burnette was an early Rockabilly singer. With his younger brother, Johnny Burnette, and a friend named Paul Burlison, he was a founder member of The Rock and Roll Trio.-Background and early career:Dorsey Burnett was born on December 28, 1932 to Willie May and Dorsey Burnett Sr...
  
  
• Johnny Burnette
  Johnny Burnette
  John Joseph "Johnny" Burnette was an American rockabilly musician. Along with his older brother Dorsey Burnette, and also a friend named Paul Burlison, Burnette was a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio. He was the father of 1980s rockabilly singer Rocky Burnette.-Early life:Johnny Burnette...
  
  
• James Burton
  James Burton
  James Burton is an American guitarist. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2001 , Burton has also been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame...
  
  
• Jo Ann Campbell
  Jo Ann Campbell
  Jo Ann Campbell is an American pop singer.Campbell began attending music school at the age of four, and won many honors as a drum majorette at Fletcher High School...
  
  
• Ray Campi
  Ray Campi
  Ray Campi is a distinguished musician often called The King of Rockabilly. Campi's trademark is his white double bass, which he often jumps on top of and "rides" while playing....
  
  
• The Canadian Sweethearts
  The Canadian Sweethearts
  The Canadian Sweethearts were a Canadian singing duo, who were popular during the 1960s, but disbanded in 1977. The duo consisted of vocalist Lucille Starr, and her guitar playing husband, Bob Regan...
  
  
• Ace Cannon
  Ace Cannon
  John "Ace" Cannon is an American tenor and alto saxophonist. He played and toured with Hi Records stablemate Bill Black’s Combo, and started a solo career with his record "Tuff" in 1961, using the Black combo as his backing group. "Tuff" hit #17 on the U.S...
  
  
• Wynona Carr
  Wynona Carr
  Wynona Carr was an African-American gospel, R&B and rock and roll singer-songwriter, who recorded as Sister Wynona Carr when performing gospel material.-Biography:...
  
  
• Al Casey
  Al Casey (rock & roll guitarist)
  Alvin W. Casey was an American guitarist. He was mainly noted for his work as a session musician, but also released records and scored three Billboard Hot 100 hits in the United States...
  
  
• Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
  
• Danny Cedrone
  Danny Cedrone
  Danny Cedrone was an American guitarist and bandleader, best known for his work with Bill Haley & His Comets on their epochal "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bruce Channel
  Bruce Channel
  Bruce Channel is an American singer, known for his 1962 million selling number one hit, "Hey! Baby".-Career:...
  
  
• Jay Chevalier
  Jay Chevalier
  Jay Chevalier is a singer and songwriter from Louisiana who has achieved success in several musical genres over four decades. To people outside of Louisiana, Chevalier is most noted as one of the early pioneers of rockabilly music, but he is perhaps more famous to the citizens of the bayou state...
  
  
• Steve Clark
• Jack Clement
  Jack Clement
  Jack Henderson Clement is an American singer, songwriter, and a record and film producer.Raised and educated in Memphis, Jack Clement was performing at an early age...
  
  
• Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline , born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore, Virginia, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s...
  
  
• Eddie Cochran
  Eddie Cochran
  Eddie Cochran , was an American rock and roll pioneer who in his brief career had a small but lasting influence on rock music through his guitar playing. Cochran's rockabilly songs, such as "C'mon Everybody", "Somethin' Else", and "Summertime Blues", captured teenage frustration and desire in the...
  
  
• Collins Kids
• Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of...
  
  
• Scott Corben
• Mac Curtis
  Mac Curtis
  Wesley Erwin "Mac" Curtis, Jr. is an American rockabilly musician.Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Curtis began playing guitar at the age of 12, entering local talent competitions. He moved to Weatherford in 1954, and while there he formed a band with two classmates, Jim and Ken Galbraith...
  
  
• Bobby Curtola
  Bobby Curtola
  Robert Allen "Bobby" Curtola, CM is an early Canadian rock and roll singer and teen idol.-History:Curtola had several songs on the Canadian music charts beginning with "Hand In Hand With You"...
  
  
• Ken Davis
  Ken Davis
  Kenneth E. "Ken" Davis is a prominent lobbyist and Republican political figure in Pennsylvania. He is a long-term ally of controversial Republican National Committeeman Bob Asher, a mainstay in state-wide and Montgomery County Republican politics....
  
  
• Sheriff Tex Davis
• The Delmore Brothers
  The Delmore Brothers
  Alton Delmore and Rabon Delmore , billed as The Delmore Brothers, were country music pioneers and stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s...
  
  
• Jesse Lee Denson
• Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley
  Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...
  
  
• Carl Dobkins, Jr.
  Carl Dobkins, Jr.
  Carl Dobkins, Jr. is an American singer best known for his 1959 hit, "My Heart is an Open Book," which went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The record sold over one million copies, resulting in the awarding of a gold disc.-Career:The Seniors, Dobkins' backup group, included Keith Ross, Paul...
  
  
• Tom Dorsam

• Big Al Downing
• The Everly Brothers
  The Everly Brothers
  The Everly Brothers are country-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing...
  
  
• Tommy Facenda
  Tommy Facenda
  Tommy "Bubba" Facenda is an American rock and roll singer and guitarist. He is best known for his one-hit wonder single, "High School U.S.A."-Career:...
  
  
• Charlie Feathers
  Charlie Feathers
  Charles Arthur "Charlie" Feathers was an influential American rockabilly and country music performer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Narvel Felts
  Narvel Felts
  Narvel Felts is an American country music singer. Known for his soaring tenor and high falsetto, Felts enjoyed his greatest success during the 1970s, most famously 1975's "Reconsider Me."-Career:...
  
  
• Leo Fender
  Leo Fender
  Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender was an American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short...
  
  
• The Flaming Ember
  The Flaming Ember
  The Flaming Ember was an American white soul band from Detroit, Michigan, who found commercial success starting in the late 1960's.The group originally formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1964. At that time, they were known as The Flaming Embers...
  
  
• D.J. Fontana
• Frankie Ford
  Frankie Ford
  Frankie Ford is an American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer.He is the adopted son of Vincent and Anna Guzzo, who named him Francis Guzzo. He was born in Gretna, Louisiana, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, where he still lives...
  
  
• Johnny Fortune
• Tillman Franks
  Tillman Franks
  Tillman Ben Franks was an American bassist and songwriter who was also the manager for a number of country music artists including Johnny Horton, David Houston, Webb Pierce, Claude King and the Carlisles.-Biography:...
  
  
• Alan Freed
  Alan Freed
  Albert James "Alan" Freed , also known as Moondog, was an American disc-jockey. He became internationally known for promoting the mix of blues, country and rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll...
  
  
• Lefty Frizzell
  Lefty Frizzell
  Lefty Frizzell , born William Orville Frizzell, was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a proponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty...
  
  
• Cliff Gallup
  Cliff Gallup
  Clifton E. "Cliff" Gallup was an American electric guitarist, who played rock and roll in the band Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps in the 1950s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Billy Garland
  Billy Garland
  William Jefferson "Billy" Garland , was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Garland was famous for his falsetto singing combined with gentle guitar playing style...
  
  
• Glen Glenn
  Glen Glenn
  Glen Glenn may refer to:* Glen Glenn , American rockabilly singer* Glen Glenn Sound, sound studio...
  
  
• Charlie Gracie
  Charlie Gracie
  Charlie Gracie is an American rock pioneer and singer. He was born the same day as another rock and roll singer, Bobby Darin.His father encouraged him to play the guitar...
  
  
• Johnny Grande
  Johnny Grande
  John A. Grande , better known as Johnny Grande, was a member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets.-Life and Career:...
  
  
• Rudy Grayzell
• Ronnie Haig
• Bill Haley
  Bill Haley
  Bill Haley was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock".-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Dickie "Be-Bop" Harrell
• Ray Harris
  Ray Harris
  Ray Harris was an American rockabilly musician and songwriter. He formed a band with Wayne Powers, and wrote the songs "Come On, Little Mama" and "Greenback Dollar, Watch and Chain". He eventually recorded these at Sun Records with Sam Phillips. He has also produced artists at Hi Records...
  
  
• Dale Hawkins
  Dale Hawkins
  Delmar Allen "Dale" Hawkins was a pioneer American rock singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist who was often called the architect of swamp rock boogie...
  
  
• Ronnie Hawkins
  Ronnie Hawkins
  Ronald "Ronnie" Hawkins is a Juno Award-winning rockabilly musician whose career has spanned more than half a century. Though his career began in Arkansas, USA, where he'd been born and raised, it was in Ontario, Canada where he found success and settled for most of his life...
  
  
• Roy Head
  Roy Head
  Roy Head is an American singer, best known for his hit "Treat Her Right."-Career:Head achieved fame as a member of a musical group out from San Marcos, Texas known as The Traits. The group's sponsor landed their first recording contract in 1958 with TNT Music in San Antonio, Texas while they were...
  
   and The Traits
• Bobby Helms
  Bobby Helms
  Robert Lee Helms , better known as Bobby Helms, was an American country music singer who enjoyed his peak success in 1957 with his hit, "Jingle Bell Rock". He was mostly known for the Christmas song...
  
  
• Al Hendrix
• Clarence "Frogman" Henry
• La Llorona and the Varners
• Ersel Hickey
  Ersel Hickey
  Ersel Hickey , born in Brighton, New York was a rockabilly singer best known for his hit song "Bluebirds over the Mountain".-Early life:...
  
  
• Curtis Hobock
• W. S. Holland
  W. S. Holland
  W. S. "Fluke" Holland is a drummer who worked extensively with numerous rock and roll musicians, beginning with Carl Perkins, but became well known as the drummer in singer Johnny Cash's succession of backing bands: The Tennessee Three, The Great Eighties Eight, and The Johnny Cash Show Band...
  
  
• Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
  
  
• Fred Horrell
• Johnny Horton
  Johnny Horton
  John Gale "Johnny" Horton was an American country music and rockabilly singer most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which began the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s...
  
  
• Wanda Jackson
  Wanda Jackson
  Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...
  
  
• Etta James
  Etta James
  Etta James is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues , rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer...
  
  
• The Jordanaires
  The Jordanaires
  The Jordanaires are an American vocal quartet, which formed as a gospel group in 1948. They are best known for providing vocal background for Elvis Presley, in live appearances and recordings from 1956 to 1972...
  
  
• Bob "Git It" Kelly
• Sid King
• Buddy Knox
  Buddy Knox
  Buddy Knox was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 rockabilly hit song, "Party Doll".-Biography:...
  
  
• Sleepy LaBeef
  Sleepy LaBeef
  Sleepy LaBeef is an American rockabilly musician.LaBeef stands 6' 7" tall and was given the nickname "Sleepy" from the appearance of his eyes. Born in Arkansas, he was raised on a melon farm and moved to Houston when he was 18...
  
  

• John D. LeVan
• Rodney Lay
• Brenda Lee
  Brenda Lee
  Brenda Mae Tarpley , known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis...
  
  
• Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...
  
  
• Linda Gail Lewis
  Linda Gail Lewis
  Linda Gail Lewis is an American singer and pianist. She is the sister of Jerry Lee Lewis.She plays piano and has recorded with Stephen Ackles, Van Morrison, and with her brother. She also has recorded with her two daughtersMaryJean Ferguson, and Annie Marie Dolan in a group called The Lewis 3...
  
  
• Light Crust Doughboys
  Light Crust Doughboys
  The Light Crust Doughboys is a quintessential American Western swing band from Texas organized in 1931 by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas. The band achieved its peak popularity in the few years leading up to World War II...
  
  
• Bonnie Lou
  Bonnie Lou
  Bonnie Lou is an American rock and roll and country music singer. During the mid-1950s, Bonnie Lou helped pave the way for future female artists as one of rock and roll's first female singers...
  
  
• Robin Luke
  Robin Luke
  Robin Luke is an American rockabilly singer who is best known for his 1958 song, "Susie Darlin". He has been enshrined in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bob Luman
  Bob Luman
  Bob Luman was an American country and rockabilly singer.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Marshall Lytle
  Marshall Lytle
  Marshall Lytle , who also goes by the name Tommy Page, is an American rock and roll musician, best known for his work with the groups Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars in the 1950s.-Career:...
  
  
• Bill Mack (Blue Caps)
• Lonnie Mack
  Lonnie Mack
  Lonnie Mack is an American rock, blues and country guitarist and vocalist....
  
  
• Morty Marker
• Grady Martin
  Grady Martin
  Thomas Grady Martin was one of the most renowned, inventive and historically significant American session musicians in country music and rockabilly....
  
  
• Janis Martin
  Janis Martin
  Janis Darlene Martin was an American rockabilly and country music singer. She was one of the few women working in the male-dominated rock and roll music field during the 1950s and one of country music's early female innovators...
  
  
• Clyde McPhatter
  Clyde McPhatter
  Clyde McPhatter was an American R&B singer, perhaps the most widely imitated R&B singer of the 1950s and 1960s, making him a key figure in the shaping of doo-wop and R&B. He is best known for his solo hit "A Lover's Question"...
  
  
• Johnny Meeks
• Bob Moore
  Bob Moore
  Bob Loyce Moore is an American session musician, orchestra leader, and bassist who was a member of the legendary Nashville A-Team during the 1950s and 60s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Scotty Moore
  Scotty Moore
  Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III is an American guitarist. He is best known for his backing of Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis' Hollywood years...
  
  
• Curley Money
  Curley Money
  Curley Money was an American rockabilly musician.Robert Earnest Money, known by his stage name Curley Money, was the youngest of eight children born to a sharecropper in Haleburg, Alabama...
  
  
• Colonel Robert Morris
• Moon Mullican
  Moon Mullican
  Aubrey Wilson Mullican , known as Moon Mullican, was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist. However, he also sang and played jazz, rock 'n' roll and the blues...
  
  
• Jerry Naylor
  Jerry Naylor
  Jerry Naylor is an American country and rock and roll artist and broadcaster and inspirational speaker, who was the lead singer of The Crickets following the death of Buddy Holly.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Jack Neal
• Buddy McNeil
  Buddy McNeil
  William "Buddy" McNeil is an American rockabilly musician and songwriter who participated in the foundation of rockabilly music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rick Nelson
• Sandy Nelson
  Sandy Nelson
  Sandy Nelson is an American drummer. Nelson, one of the best-known rock drummers of the early 1960s, had several solo instrumental Top 40 hits and was a session drummer on many other well-known hits, and released over 30 albums.-Career:His first recording, with a band called The Renegades Sandy...
  
  
• Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
  
  
• Buck Owens
  Buck Owens
  Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...
  
  
• Tommy Overstreet
  Tommy Overstreet
  Tommy Overstreet is an American country singer. Often known simply as "T.O." by fans and radio disc jockeys, Overstreet has five top five hit singles in the Billboard country charts and 11 top 10 singles. His popularity peaked in the 1970s.-Early life:Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Overstreet...
  
  
• Colonel Tom Parker
  Colonel Tom Parker
  "Colonel" Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, was a Dutch-born entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley...
  
  
• Joe Pennington
  Joe Pennington
  Joe Pennington, aka "Joe Penny," is a former lead guitarist for Hank Williams' backing band, the Drifting Cowboys...
  
  
• Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  Carl Lee Perkins was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954...
  
  
• Luther Perkins
  Luther Perkins
  Luther Monroe Perkins was an American country music guitarist and a member of the Tennessee Three, the backup band for singer Johnny Cash. Perkins was an iconic figure in what would become known as rockabilly music...
  
  
• Ray Peterson
  Ray Peterson
  Ray Peterson was an American pop music singer who was best remembered for singing "Tell Laura I Love Her" and "Corrine, Corrina" in the 1960s.-Career:...
  
  
• Norman Petty
  Norman Petty
  Norman Petty was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock....
  
  
• Dewey Phillips
  Dewey Phillips
  "Daddy-O" Dewey Phillips was one of rock 'n' roll's pioneering disk jockeys, along the lines of Cleveland's Alan Freed, before Freed came along.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sam Phillips
  Sam Phillips
  Samuel Cornelius Phillips , better known as Sam Phillips, was an American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s...
  
  
• Barbara Pittman
  Barbara Pittman
  Barbara Pittman was one of the few female singers to record at Sun Studio. As a young teenager she recorded some demos of songs for others. Pittman's most popular recordings include "I Need A Man" on the Sun label and "Two Young Fools In Love", released on Sam Phillips' International label...
  
  
• Bobby Poe
  Bobby Poe
  Bobby Nelson Poe also known as The Poe Kat, had a long and varied career in the music business....
  
  
• Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
  
• Johnny Preston
  Johnny Preston
  Johnny Preston was an American pop music singer, who was best known for his international number one hit in 1960, "Running Bear".-Life and career:...
  
  
• Marvin Rainwater
  Marvin Rainwater
  Marvin Karlton Rainwater , better known as Marvin Rainwater, is an American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter who had several hits during the late 1950s, including "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" and "Whole Lotta Woman"...
  
  
• Jerry Reed
  Jerry Reed
  Jerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films...
  
  
• Bobby Lawson

• Jody Reynolds
  Jody Reynolds
  Jody Reynolds was an American singer and guitarist. His biggest hit single was "Endless Sleep", which reached #5 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on July 7, 1958. He wrote it in a single afternoon in 1956 in Yuma, Arizona...
  
  
• Jack Rhodes
  Jack Rhodes
  Andrew Jackson Rhodes was an American country music producer and songwriter, penning such hits as "A Satisfied Mind", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", "Conscience I'm Guilty", "The Waltz of the Angels", "Beautiful Lies", and "Till the Last Leaf Shall Fall"...
  
  
• Charlie Rich
  Charlie Rich
  Charles Rich was an American country music singer and musician. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres.In the latter part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname The Silver...
  
  
• Little Richard
  Little Richard
  Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...
  
  
• Dick Richards (Bill Haley & His Comets)
• J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson
  The Big Bopper
  Jiles Perry "J. P." Richardson, Jr. also commonly known as The Big Bopper, was an American disc jockey, singer, and songwriter whose big voice and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star...
  
  
• Billy Lee Riley
  Billy Lee Riley
  Billy Lee Riley was an American rockabilly musician, singer, record producer and songwriter. His most memorable recordings included "Rock With Me Baby," and "Red Hot".-Biography:...
  
  
• Red Robinson (Disk Jockey)
• Jimmie Rodgers
  Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)
  James Frederick "Jimmie" Rodgers is an American singer. He is not related to the country singer of the same name.-Career:...
  
  
• Tommy Roe
  Tommy Roe
  Tommy Roe is an American pop music singer-songwriter.Best-remembered for his hits "Sheila" and "Dizzy" , critic Bill Dahl wrote that Roe was "widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum artists of the late 1960s, but Roe cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his...
  
  
• Tommy Sands
  Tommy Sands
  Tommy Adrian Sands is an American pop music singer and actor.-Early life:Born into a musical family in Chicago, Illinois, Sands' father was a pianist and his mother a big-band singer. While still young, he moved with his family to Shreveport, Louisiana...
  
  
• Vernon Sandusky
• Big Sandy and his Fly Rite Boys
• Jack Scott
• Mack Self
  Mack Self
  Wiley Laverne "Mack" Self was an American rockabilly singer, songwriter and musician, who recorded for Sun Records in the 1950s and was a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  
  
• Del Shannon
  Del Shannon
  Del Shannon was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit, "Runaway", in 1961.- Biography :...
  
  
• Clifton Simmons
• Jumpin' Gene Simmons
  Jumpin' Gene Simmons
  Jumpin' Gene Simmons was an American rockabilly singer and songwriter known best for his 1964 novelty single "Haunted House."-Biography:...
  
  
• Ray Smith
  Ray Smith (rockabilly singer)
  Ray Smith was an American rockabilly musician.Smith recorded for Vee-Jay Records, Tollie Records, Smash Records, and Sun Records during his career, and had a hit with the song "Rockin' Little Angel" in 1960 on Judd Records. "Rockin' Little Angel" took a portion of its melody from the 1844 song...
  
  
• Warren Smith
  Warren Smith
  Warren Smith may refer to:*Warren Smith , golf professional, Cherry Hills Country Club*Warren Smith , American Rockabilly artist*Warren Smith , American jazz drummer...
  
  
• Bobby Sowell
  Bobby Sowell
  Bobby Sowell is an American musician, pianist and composer. He spent much of his early years playing rockabilly piano in the late 1950s, playing organ in rock and roll bands in the 1960s and playing piano in numerous country music bands in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s...
  
  
• Billy Strange
  Billy Strange
  William E. "Billy" Strange is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor.-Recordings and songwriting:...
  
  
• Stray Cats
  Stray Cats
  Stray Cats are an American Rockabilly band formed in 1980 by guitarist/vocalist Brian Setzer , upright bassist Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa, New York. The group had numerous hit singles in the UK, Australia and the U.S...
  
  
• Gene Summers
  Gene Summers
  Gene Summers is an American rock/rockabilly singer and entertainer. Some of his classic recordings include "School of Rock 'n Roll", "Straight Skirt", "Nervous", "Gotta Lotta That", "Twixteen", "Alabama Shake" and his biggest-selling single "Big Blue Diamonds"...
  
  
• Billy Swan
  Billy Swan
  Billy Lance Swan is an American songwriter and singer, best known for his 1974 single, "I Can Help".-Life:Swan was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. As a child, he learned drums, piano and guitar, and began writing songs...
  
  
• Hayden Thompson
• Sue Thompson
  Sue Thompson
  Sue Thompson is an American pop and country music singer. She is best known for the million selling hits "Sad Movies " and "Norman", both pop hits for her in the 1960s.-Early life:...
  
  
• Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...
  
  
• Ritchie Valens
  Ritchie Valens
  Ritchie Valens was a Mexican-American singer, songwriter and guitarist....
  
  
• Johnny Vallis
• Bobby Vee
  Bobby Vee
  Robert Thomas Velline , known as Bobby Vee, is an American pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine, Vee has had 38 Hot 100 chart hits, 10 of which hit the Top 20.-Career:...
  
  
• Gene Vincent
  Gene Vincent
  Vincent Eugene Craddock , known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps, "Be-Bop-A-Lula", is considered a significant early example of rockabilly...
  
  
• Bobby Wayne
• Don Weise
• Ronnie Weiser
  Ronnie Weiser
  Ronnie Weiser , also known as Rockin' Ronnie Weiser, is an American record producer and founder of rockabilly record label Rollin' Rock Records....
  
  
• Sonny West
  Sonny West
  Sonny West is a rock and roll-musician. West wrote and recorded both "Oh, Boy!" and "Rave On" on the Atlantic label in the late 1950s...
  
  
• Speedy West
  Speedy West
  Wesley Webb West , better known as Speedy West, was an American pedal steel guitarist and record producer. He frequently played with Jimmy Bryant, both in their own duo and as part of the regular Capitol Records backing band for Tennessee Ernie Ford and many others...
  
  
• Kay Wheeler
• "Wee" Willie Williams
  Ervin Williams
  Ervin L. "Wee Willie" Williams was an American rockabilly pioneer musician.Nicknamed "Wee Willie" as well as "Early," Williams was born in Millinocket, Maine where began playing guitar as a boy. In his teens he became part of The Northern Lights, a band that toured his native Maine and across the...
  
  
• Colin Winski
• Link Wray
  Link Wray
  Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer....
  
  
• Rusty York
  Rusty York
  Rusty York is an American musician and member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Rusty York achieved Hall of Fame status with his Rockabilly song "Sugaree." The rockabilly phase was a minor success, but by the 1960s, York had returned to bluegrass and country...
  
  
• Eddie Zack
• Billy Zoom
  Billy Zoom
  Billy Zoom is an American guitarist, best known as one of the founders of the punk rock band X.-Early life:...