Who is jumpin gene simmons

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Your purchase was successful, and you are now logged in. Edit Close. Toggle navigation Menu. Don't have an account? Sign Up Today. Home e-Edition Obits Jobs. Close 1 of 3. In the s, Gene Simmons and his younger brother Carl headed out to Memphis to play bluegrass. The doors opened, and the brothers landed a deal with the famed Sun Records.

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Big second half leads Indians to second round. Latest e-Edition. Itawamba Times Itawamba Times. Special Sections. He began his professional musical career at 15, playing with his brother Carl at local dances and on radio as the Simmons Brothers band. Around this time he met Elvis while visiting one of Presley's cousins. I thought he looked weird. Greased-back hair, tight pants, all that.

Hipper than we country boys. A short time later Elvis's first manager, Bob Neal, booked the Simmons band to open a show for his client in Tupelo. Simmons asked for the rising star's help and an audition at Sun studios was arranged.

Simmons recorded 15 songs for Sun, but Phillips, involved with promoting Elvis, Carl Perkins and his other stars, released only two singles in and Neither Drinking Wine nor Crazy Woman was a hit.

Meanwhile, Simmons spent the late s touring the US and Canada, gaining the nickname Jumpin' because of his energetic stage act.

Returning to Memphis he joined a group led by Bill Black, Elvis's former bass player. The band's saxophonist was Ace Cannon, with whom Simmons was to perform at rock'n'roll revival shows in later years. Haunted House fitted an early s fashion for monster songs, such as Monster Mash, and reached the Top 20 in August But Simmons failed to find another song with as much novelty appeal and it remained a one-hit wonder.