JIMMY CRAIN rockabilly original SHIG-A-SHAG on Spangle
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JIMMY CRAIN
SHIG-A-SHAG
JIMMY CRAIN, born in, Lima, Ohio, a somewhat obscure rock and roller, best known for his two pounding rockers "Rock-A-Socka-Hop" and "Shig-A-Shag".
Jimmy was a multi-talented youngster. By the age of seven, he was able to play several musical instruments, including guitar, banjo and mandolin. Less than ten years later he was playing regularly at county fairs, dotted about Ohio and neighboring Indiana. In addition to this, Jimmy was also employed on an ad-hoc basis as a session musician at a studio in Dayton, Ohio. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Jimmy signed a recording deal with Floyd Whited, owner of the Springfield, Ohio based Spangle label.
Jimmy's first, and only, release on Spangle was "Shig-A-Shag", which was recorded at Bradley Studios in Nashville. Crain insists that he wrote the song himself, though the label credit reads "M. Whited / R. Fisher". The record caught on in the Mid-West and the East Coast. This led to a string of radio and TV dates, as well as the odd package tour, where he played alongside such rock 'n' roll notables as The Big Bopper, Link Wray and Dion and the Belmonts.
This one’s flipped with “Will You Tell (Tell Me).”
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CONDITION: VG some light marks on this one but still plays quite well.
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