Life_and_career Roddy_Jackson

1 life , career

1.1 life
1.2 specialty years
1.3 later years

life , career
early life

roddy jackson born in fresno, california, moving merced child. father singer , pianist toured sons of pioneers. jackson learned play drums , piano, forming first group, dreamers, when aged 12 in 1954, , began performing on radio station kyos. learned play clarinet, trumpet , trombone, concentrated on alto saxophone , later tenor sax.

in 1956, after becoming influenced fats domino , little richard, formed new multi-racial rock , roll band, blue notes, among friends @ high school. became popular around merced, , mentored local fire chief george coolures, helped win them audition @ specialty records label s a&r man, sonny bono. bono convinced label owner art rupe sign jackson solo artist, not rest of blue notes. blue notes continued perform jackson while, did not play on records. after jackson left band, coolures replaced him on stage, and, renamed merced blue notes, remained popular live act in area 1960s.

specialty years

jackson s first session solo singer in december 1957, when recorded sonny bono s composition ve got sights on new band comprising rené hall (guitar), red callender (bass), , earl palmer (drums). backed love @ first sight , record became regional hit, , decca records tried buy out recording contract, rupe refused , turned down offer jackson appear on dick clark s american bandstand. jackson returned studio in september 1958 record second single, hiccups , novelty song written studio pianist al hazan (who later featured on hit nut rocker credited b. bumble , stingers) , produced, other records, bono. however, record failed chart, fate suffered third specialty single, old town / gloria , recorded in march 1959 hall, palmer, , saxophonist lee allen.

according writer steve leggett, jackson real deal, exciting performer shouted out material explosive force, pummelling piano personal threat well-being, , showing off considerable saxophone skills well. jackson wrote songs, co-writing larry williams said yeah sonny bono, used pseudonym don christy; song later recorded rolling stones, animals , others.

later years

jackson did not record in later years, continued make occasional local performances. re-emerged more publicly in 1990s, , started making regular festival appearances in britain, france , elsewhere. compilation album, central valley fireball, comprising specialty singles unreleased recordings, issued ace records in 2007.