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The Rockabilly Hall of Fame was established on March 21, 1997 to present early rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 history and information relative to the artists and personalities involved in this pioneering American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 music genre.

Headquartered in a former recording studio in Burns,Tennessee near Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
, the first induction certificate was issued on November 16th, 1997 for singer Gene Vincent
Gene Vincent

Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and, especially, 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.

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, 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 their first recording contracts and helping to launch their careers....
 owner Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips

Samuel Cornelius Phillips , better known as Sam Phillips, was an United States record producer who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s....
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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 is located at 222 Fifth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. Its mission is to identify and preserve the evolving history and traditions of country music and to educate its audiences....
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The Rockabilly Hall of Fame was established on March 21, 1997 to present early rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 history and information relative to the artists and personalities involved in this pioneering American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 music genre.

Headquartered in a former recording studio in Burns,Tennessee near Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
, the first induction certificate was issued on November 16th, 1997 for singer Gene Vincent
Gene Vincent

Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and, especially, 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.

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, 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 their first recording contracts and helping to launch their careers....
 owner Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips

Samuel Cornelius Phillips , better known as Sam Phillips, was an United States record producer 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 is located at 222 Fifth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. Its mission is to identify and preserve the evolving history and traditions of country music and to educate its audiences....
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Inductees

  • Art Adams
    Art Adams

    Arthur "Art" Adams, , is an United States writer and comic book illustrator....
  • Tommy Allsup
    Tommy Allsup

    Tommy Allsup is an United States musician.Allsup began his career in music in 1949 as a guitarist with the Oklahoma Swingbillies. In 1958, sound recording and reproduction at Norman Petty's recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico, he was asked to work with Buddy Holly....
  • Alton & Jimmy
  • Joey Ambrose (Bill Haley & His Comets)
  • Blackwood Brothers
  • Stan Beaver
    Stan Beaver

    Stan Beaver had a hit record with '"I Got a Rocket in my Pocket"' in 1963 ....
  • Boyd Bennett
    Boyd Bennett

    Boyd Bennett was a songwriter and singer.Bennett was born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Alabama but attended high school in Tennessee and formed his first band there....
  • Rod Bernard
    Rod Bernard

    Rod Bernard is an American singer 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 Louisiana Creole people music....
  • Eddie Bond
    Eddie Bond

    Eddie Bond was a pioneer singer and guitar player of United States Rockabilly.In the mid 1950s, Bond sound recording and reproduction for Sun Records and toured with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Warren Smith and others....
  • Burl Boykin
  • Franny Beecher
    Franny Beecher

    Franny Beecher , also known as Frank or Francis 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 United States pop music singer. Brooks has been enshrined in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.Born in Dallas, Texas, Texas, Abohosh moved to Ventura, California, California in his teens, where he was adoption by his Stepfamily and took the name John Faircloth....
  • Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
    Felice and Boudleaux Bryant

    Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an United States wife and husband country music songwriting team who were also at the forefront of the evolution of pop music....
  • Sonny Burgess
    Sonny Burgess

    Albert Austin "Sonny" Burgess is a guitarist and singer of classic rockabilly music.In the early 1950s, Burgess played boogie woogie music in dance halls and bars around Newport....
  • Paul Burlison
    Paul Burlison

    Paul Burlison was a pioneer rockabilly guitarist and a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio. Burlison was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, Tennessee, where he was exposed to music at an early age....
  • Billy Burnette
    Billy Burnette

    William Beau "Billy" Burnette III is an United States guitarist, singer and songwriter who was part of the band Fleetwood Mac from 1987 to 1995....
  • Dorsey Burnette
    Dorsey Burnette

    Dorsey Burnette was an early Rockabilly singer from Memphis, Tennessee and with his younger brother Johnny Burnette and a friend named Paul Burlison was one of the founder members of The Rock and Roll Trio....
  • Johnny Burnette
    Johnny Burnette

    John Joseph "Johnny" Burnette was a Rockabilly pioneer. Along with his older brother Dorsey Burnette and a friend named Paul Burlison, Johnny Burnette was a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio....
  • James Burton
    James Burton

    James Burton is an United States 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 United States pop music 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 Canada singing duo popular during the 1960s until its disbandment 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 United States tenor saxophonist and alto saxophonist. He played and toured with Hi Records stablemate Bill Black?s Combo, and started a solo career with his gramophone record "Tuff" in 1961, using the Black combo as his backing group....
  • Wynona Carr
    Wynona Carr

    Wynona Merceris Carr was an African-American gospel music, rhythm & blues and rock & roll singer/songwriter, who recorded as "Sister" Wynona Carr when doing gospel material....
  • Al Casey
    Al Casey

    Albert Aloysius Casey known professional as Al Casey, was an African American swing music guitarist who played with Fats Waller on some of his famous recordings....
  • Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Danny Cedrone
    Danny Cedrone

    Danny Cedrone was an United States guitarist and bandleader, best known for his work with Bill Haley & His Comets on their epochal "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954....
  • Bruce Channel
    Bruce Channel

    Bruce Channel is an United States singing, known for his 1962 chart-topper hit record, "Hey! Baby"....
  • Jack Clement
    Jack Clement

    Jack Henderson Clement is an United States singer, songwriter, and a record producer and film producer.Raised and educated in Memphis, Jack Clement was performing at an early age....
  • Patsy Cline
    Patsy Cline

    Patsy Cline was an United States country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s....
  • Eddie Cochran
    Eddie Cochran

    Raymond Edward "Eddie" Cochran was an United States of America rock and roll musician and an important influence on popular music during the 1950s, 1960s, and beyond....
  • 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 one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  • 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....
  • Bobby Curtola
    Bobby Curtola

    Bobby Curtola, Order of Canada is an early Canada rock and roll singer and one-time teen idol....
  • 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....
  • Bo Diddley
    Bo Diddley

    Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
  • Carl Dobkins, Jr.
    Carl Dobkins, Jr.

    Carl Dobkins, Jr. is an United States singing best known for his 1959 hit record, "My Heart is an Open Book," which went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart....


  • Big Al Downing
  • The Everly Brothers
    The Everly Brothers

    The Everly Brothers are brothers and top-selling country music-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."....
  • Charlie Feathers
    Charlie Feathers

    Charles Feathers, , was an influential rockabilly and country music performer.Charles Arthur Feathers was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and recorded a string of popular singles like "Peepin' Eyes," "Defrost Your Heart," "Tongue-Tied Jill," and "Bottle to the Baby" on Sun Records, Meteor and King Records in the 1950s....
  • Narvel Felts
    Narvel Felts

    Narvel Felts is an United States 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."...
  • Leo Fender
    Leo Fender

    Clarence Leonidas Fender , also known as Leo Fender, was a Greece-United States inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, now known as Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, and later founded MusicMan and G&L Musical Instruments ....
  • The Flaming Ember
    The Flaming Ember

    The Flaming Ember was an United States white soul band from Detroit, Michigan, who found brief commercial success starting in 1969.The group originally formed in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1964....
  • D.J. Fontana
  • Frankie Ford
    Frankie Ford

    Frankie Ford is an United States rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer.File:FrankieFordPointsKdV.jpgHe is the adopted son of Vincent and Anna Guzzo....
  • Johnny Fortune
  • Tillman Franks
    Tillman Franks

    Tillman B. Franks was an United States double bass, and songwriter who was also the management for a number of country music musician, including Johnny Horton, David Houston , Webb Pierce, Claude King and the Carlisles....
  • Alan Freed
    Alan Freed

    Alan Freed , also known as Moondog, was an United States disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll....
  • Lefty Frizzell
    Lefty Frizzell

    William Orville 'Lefty' Frizzell was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s and a leading exponent of the Honky Tonk style of country music....
  • Cliff Gallup
    Cliff Gallup

    Clifton E. "Cliff" Gallup was an United States electric guitarist, who played rock and roll in Gene Vincent's band The Blue Caps in the 1950s....
  • Billy Garland
    Billy Garland

    William Jefferson "Billy" Garland was an United States 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 United States rock and roll pioneer and singing.His father encouraged him to play the guitar. Gracie's musical career started at the age of 14 when he appeared on the Paul Whiteman television show....
  • Johnny Grande
    Johnny Grande

    John A. Grande , better known as Johnny Grande, was a member of Bill Haley's backing band, Bill Haley & His Comets.Born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he played piano and accordion with Bill Haley and the Saddlemen, later known as Bill Haley & His Comets, from 1949 to 1962-63....
  • Rudy Grayzelle
    Rudy Grayzelle

    Rudy Jimenez "Tutti" Grayzell is a Rockabilly musician. He first formed "The Buckles", which became "Texas Kool Kats" and a popular local group....
  • 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 mid-1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock"....
  • Dickie "Be-Bop" Harrell
  • Ray Harris
    Ray Harris

    Ray Harris In, Tupelo, MS, Shiloh Community. formed a band with Wayne Powers and wrote the songs "Come On, Little Mama" and "Greenback Dollar, Watch and Chain"....
  • Dale Hawkins
    Dale Hawkins

    Dale Hawkins is a pioneer United States Rock and Roll singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist who is often called the architect of the swamp rock....
  • Ronnie Hawkins
    Ronnie Hawkins

    Ronald "Ronnie" Hawkins is a pioneering rock and roll musician and cousin to fellow rockabilly pioneer Dale Hawkins. Known as "Rompin' Ronnie" Hawkins or "The Hawk," he was a key player in the 1960s rock music scene in Toronto and for the next 40 years, performed all over North America, recording more than twenty-five albums....
  • Roy Head and The Traits
  • Bobby Helms
    Bobby Helms

    Bobby Helms was an United States singer who enjoyed his peak success in 1957....
  • Al Hendrix
  • Clarence "Frogman" Henry
  • Ersel Hickey
    Ersel Hickey

    Ersel Hickey was a rockabilly singer best known for "Bluebirds over the Mountain."...
  • Curtis Hobock
  • W. S. Holland
    W. S. Holland

    W.S. "Fluke" Holland is a drummer who worked extensively with numerous rock and roll musicians, but became well-known as the drummer in Johnny Cash's Tennessee Three backing 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. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  • Johnny Horton
    Johnny Horton

    Johnny Horton was an United States country music singer who was most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which launched the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s....
  • Wanda Jackson
    Wanda Jackson

    Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American rockabilly and country music singer who had success in the mid-50s and the 60s. She resides in Oklahoma City, OK....
  • Etta James
    Etta James

    Etta James is an American blues, soul music, rhythm and blues, rock & roll, gospel and jazz singer and songwriter. James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards....
  • The Jordanaires
    The Jordanaires

    The Jordanaires are an United States singing group formed in 1948 in Springfield, Missouri....
  • Bob "Git It" Kelly
  • Sid King
  • Buddy Knox
    Buddy Knox

    Buddy Wayne Knox was an United States singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 rockabilly hit song, "Party Doll".Knox was born in the tiny farming community of Happy, Texas and as a boy learned to play the guitar....
  • 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....


  • Rodney Lay
  • Brenda Lee
    Brenda Lee

    Brenda Lee is an United States country music-pop music singer popular during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s she had more US charted hits than any other female and only three male singers or groups ....
  • 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 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  • 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, Tav Falco's Panther Burns and with her brother....
  • Light Crust Doughboys
    Light Crust Doughboys

    The Light Crust Doughboys were a Texas western swing band formed in 1931 by Bob Wills, Milton Brown and W. Lee O'Daniel. The band achieved its peak popularity in the years leading up to World War II....
  • Bonnie Lou
    Bonnie Lou

    Bonnie Lou is an United States and Country Music singer. During the mid 1950s, rock and roll was the hottest selling music on the market. Few women however ventured into this territory, like Bonnie Lou....
  • Robin Luke
    Robin Luke

    Robin Luke is an United States rockabilly singer. He has been enshrined in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.Luke was living in Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaii, attending Punahou School, in 1958 when he songwriter and sound recording and reproduction a Billboard Hot 100 hit single with the song, "Susie Darlin," a song named after his then five-year-old...
  • Bob Luman
    Bob Luman

    Bob Luman, , was an United States Country Music and rockabilly singer....
  • Marshall Lytle
    Marshall Lytle

    Marshall Lytle , who also goes by the name Tommy Page, is an United States rock and roll musician, best known for his work with the groups Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars in the 1950s....
  • Bill Mack (Blue Caps)
  • Lonnie Mack
    Lonnie Mack

    Lonnie Mack is a Rock music and blues guitarist/vocalist. In the early 1960s, he recorded several full-length rock guitar instrumentals strongly grounded in the blues, the best-known of which are "Memphis", "Wham!", "Chicken Pickin'" and "Suzie-Q"....
  • Morty Marker
  • Grady Martin
    Grady Martin

    Grady Martin was a noted session musician who played guitar on several hit songs including "Honky Tonk Man " by Johnny Horton.He began playing professionally in 1946 and later became guitarist in The Radio Playboys, a band accompanying Nashville singer Big Jeff Bess....
  • Janis Martin
    Janis Martin

    Janis Martin was an United States rockabilly and country music singer. Janis Martin was one of the few female rock & roll artists to make records, proving to the male-dominated rock & roll industry that women too could sell a large amount of records and score rock & roll hits....
  • Clyde McPhatter
    Clyde McPhatter

    Clyde McPhatter was an influential United States R&B singer....
  • Johnny Meeks
  • Bob Moore
    Bob Moore

    For the football player of the same name see Bob Moore .Bob Loyce Moore , is an United States session musician, orchestra, and bassist.Moore developed his musical skills as a boy, and by age 15 he was playing double bass on a tent show tour with a Grand Ole Opry musical group....
  • Scotty Moore
    Scotty Moore

    Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III is an United States 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....
  • Jack Neal
  • Rick Nelson
  • Sandy Nelson
    Sandy Nelson

    Sandy Nelson is a drummer.His song "Teen Beat", on Original Sound Records, rose to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959. Subsequently he signed with the Imperial Records record label, and pounded out two more Top 40 hit record, "Let There Be Drums", which went to #7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Drums Are My Beat"....
  • Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison

    Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  • Buck Owens
    Buck Owens

    Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, Jr., was an United States singer and guitarist, who had 21 number-one hits on the Billboard magazine country music charts, with his legendary band, the Buckaroos....
  • Tommy Overstreet
    Tommy Overstreet

    Tommy Overstreet is a "Nashville sound"-style country music singer whose popularity peaked in the 1970s. Overstreet, often known simply as "T.O." by fans and radio disc jockeys, has eleven top ten singles in the Billboard country charts and five top five hits....
  • Colonel Tom Parker
    Colonel Tom Parker

    "Colonel" Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker , was an entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley. For many years Parker claimed to have been U.S....
  • Joe Pennington
    Joe Pennington

    Joe Pennington, aka "Joe Penny," is a former lead guitarist for Hank Williams' backing band, the Drifting Cowboys. After leaving the Drifting Cowboys in 1948, Pennington continued to perform and recorded several pioneering rockabilly singles on the Federal Records label in the mid-1950s....
  • Carl Perkins
    Carl Perkins

    Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
  • Luther Perkins
    Luther Perkins

    Luther Monroe Perkins was an American country music guitarist renowned for his work as a member of the Tennessee Three with Johnny Cash and their "boom-chicka" rhythmic style....
  • Ray Peterson
    Ray Peterson

    Ray T. Peterson was an United States pop music singer.Ray Peterson was born in Denton, Texas on April 23, 1935. As a boy he had to overcome polio....
  • Norman Petty
    Norman Petty

    Norman Petty was an United States musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwestern United States who helped shape modern popular music, including pop music and rock music....
  • Dewey Phillips
    Dewey Phillips

    "Daddy-O" Dewey Phillips was one of rock 'n' roll's pioneering disk jockeys, along the lines of Cleveland, Ohio's Alan Freed, before Alan Freed....
  • Sam Phillips
    Sam Phillips

    Samuel Cornelius Phillips , better known as Sam Phillips, was an United States record producer 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 in Memphis, Tn. was one of the few female singers to record at Sun Studio. As a young teenager she recorded some demos of songs for others....
  • Bobby Poe
    Bobby Poe

    Bobby Poe has had a long and varied career in the music business. In the mid-1950's he formed Bobby Poe and The Poe Kats, which featured legendary African-American piano player Big Al Downing and well respected lead guitar player Vernon Sandusky....
  • Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • Johnny Preston
    Johnny Preston

    Johnny Preston is an United States singing.Of Cajun ancestry, Preston sang in high school choral contests throughout the state of Texas. He formed a rock and roll band called 'The Shades', before sound recording and reproduction his Hot 100 No....
  • Marvin Rainwater
    Marvin Rainwater

    Marvin Karlton Rainwater is an United States country music and rockabilly singer, who had a few chart-topper during the late 1950s. His best known hits are "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" and "Whole Lotta Woman"....
  • Jerry Reed
    Jerry Reed

    Jerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an United States country music singer, country guitarist, session musician, songwriter, and actor who appeared in over a dozen films....


  • Jody Reynolds
    Jody Reynolds

    Jody Reynolds was an United States singer and guitarist. His biggest hit single was "Endless Sleep", which reached #5 in the United States Billboard Hot 100 record chart on July 7, 1958....
  • Charlie Rich
    Charlie Rich

    Charlie Rich was an United States. 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 music, and gospel music genres....
  • Little Richard
    Little Richard

    Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
  • Dick Richards (Bill Haley & His Comets)
  • J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson
    The Big Bopper

    Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr. , called JP by his friends but commonly known as The Big Bopper, was an United States disc jockey, singing, 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 is a Rockabilly musician, singer, record producer and songwriter ....
  • Red Robinson (Disk Jockey)
  • Jimmie Rodgers
    Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)

    James Frederick Rodgers is an American singer, sometimes classified as a rock and roll singer, but with a style more typical of folk rock or traditional pop music....
  • Tommy Roe
    Tommy Roe

    Tommy Roe is an United States pop music singer-songwriter.Best-remembered for his 1962 hit single "Sheila," critic Bill Dahl writes that Roe was "widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum pop artists of the late 1960s, but Roe cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his career."...
  • Tommy Sands
    Tommy Sands

    Tommy Sands is an United States pop music singer and actor....
  • Vernon Sandusky
  • Jack Scott
    Jack Scott

    Jack Scott is an Canadian/American singer and songwriter. He was the first white rock and roll national star to come out of Detroit, Michigan, Michigan....
  • Del Shannon
    Del Shannon

    Del Shannon , was an United States rock and roller who had a Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1961 hit ,"Runaway ", in 1961....
  • Clifton Simmons
  • Jumpin' Gene Simmons
    Jumpin' Gene Simmons

    Jumpin' Gene Simmons was an American rockabilly singer and songwriter.Simmons began his recording career with Sun Records in 1958 . He performed as an opening act for Elvis Presley ....
  • Ray Smith
    Ray Smith (rockabilly singer)

    Ray Smith was an American rockabilly musician.Smith recorded for Vee-Jay Records, Tollie Records, Smash Records, Columbia Records, and Sun Records during his career, and had a hit with the song "Rockin' Little Angel" in 1960 on Judd Records....
  • Warren Smith
    Warren Smith

    Warren Smith refers 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 United States musician, pianist and composer. He spent much of his early years playing rockabilly piano in the late 1950s, playing electric organ in rock and roll band in the 1960s and playing piano in numerous country music bands in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s....
  • Billy Strange
    Billy Strange

    William E. Strange is an United States singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor.Billy Strange teamed up with Mac Davis to write several hit songs for Elvis Presley including A Little Less Conversation, the theme from Charro! and Memories ....
  • Stray Cats
    Stray Cats

    The Stray Cats are a rockabilly band formed in 1979 in music by guitarist/vocalist Brian Setzer with school friends Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa, New York....
  • Gene Summers
    Gene Summers

    Gene Summers is a rock music/rockabilly singer and entertainer. Some of his classic recordings include "School of Rock 'n Roll", "Straight Skirt", "Nervous ", "Gotta Lotta That", "Twixteen" and his biggest-selling single "Big Blue Diamonds"....
  • Billy Swan
    Billy Swan

    Billy Swan is an United States songwriter and singer, best known for his 1974 single , "I Can Help".Swan's role in the music industry was, originally, largely invisible....
  • Hayden Thompson
  • Sue Thompson
    Sue Thompson

    Sue Thompson is an United States pop and country music singer. She is best known for the hits "Sad Movies " and "Norman", both Pop hits for her in the 1960s, featuring her breathy human voice....
  • Conway Twitty
    Conway Twitty

    Conway Twitty was one of the United States most successful country music artists during the 20th century. Most commonly thought of as a country music singer, he also enjoyed success in early rock and roll, R&B, and Pop music....
  • Ritchie Valens
    Ritchie Valens

    Ritchie Valens was an singer, songwriter and guitarist of Mexican origin born in the U.S.A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens' recording career lasted only eight months....
  • Johnny Vallis
  • Bobby Vee
    Bobby Vee

    Bobby Vee is an United States pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine Vee has had 38 Billboard Hot 100 record chart hit record, 10 of which hit the Top 20....
  • Gene Vincent
    Gene Vincent

    Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and, especially, 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. He wrote "Oh, Boy! " and "Rave On", which Buddy Holly recorded....
  • Kay Wheeler
  • "Wee" Willie Williams
    Ervin Williams

    Ervin L. "Wee Willie" Williams was an United States rockabilly pioneer musician.Nicknamed "Wee Willie" as well as "Early," Williams was born in Millinocket, Maine where began playing guitar as a boy....
  • Colin Winski
  • Link Wray
    Link Wray

    Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr was an United States rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer.Wray was noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars, as exemplified in his hit 1958 instrumental "Rumble ", by Link Wray and his Ray Men, which pioneered an overdriven, distorted electric guitar sound, and also for ha...
  • 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 was born Tyson Kindell on February 20, 1948, in Savanna, Illinois. The son of a Big Band woodwinds player, he inherited his father's love of music....


The Rockabilly Hall of Fame into the future


Rockabilly
Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, and emerged in the early 1950s.The term rockabilly is a Portmanteau word of rock and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style's development....
 is still popular with performances by young performers and some of the originals. The Rockabilly Hall of Fame continues to recognize and benefit those who are performing rockabilly to the present.

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