“Looking back it’s just something that happened 40 years ago. I don’t think he was really alert to what was happening in the music business as far as our type of music was concerned.”īuddy would later look back at that recording at Norman Petty’s studio. Knox recalls, “I don’t think Norman really spotted the potential at the time. For the next three days they recorded three songs that would change rock ‘n roll and their lives forever. Shortly after Knox, Bowen and Lanier got themselves to Clovis, New Mexico. It was there Roy Orbison had recorded some of his earlier songs like “ Ooby Dooby”. Orbison had told Knox about a recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico. They became the hottest local band around.īackstage after a show at West Texas State College, with Roy Orbison and the Teen Kings, Knox had a conversation with his Bowen and Lanier. Luckily, Buddy Knox and the Rhythm Orchids had developed a fan base. But their performances in Canyon, Texas, came to a halt when it was discovered they were minors. Though they were underaged, the trio played in local clubs for beer and food. Together, they formed a group called the Rhythm Orchids, named after their orchid colored shirts. While there, Knox met Jimmy Bowen and Don Lanier, who were also students at the college. After high school, Knox attended West Texas State College in Canyon, Texas. The population of Happy, Texas, in 1956 was only 690 people. Knox was one of the innovators of the southwestern style of rockabilly that became known as “Tex-Mex” music.īuddy attended Happy High School, graduating in 1950. The song earned Knox a gold record in 1957 and was certified a million seller.
He was the first artist of the rock era to write and perform his own number one hit song, “Party Doll“. During his youth he learned to play the guitar. Lyrics: “ Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep”īuddy Wayne Knox was born in 1933, in Happy, Texas, a small farm town in the Texas Panhandle a half hour south of Amarillo. "The Joker" in turn was later sampled on another number one hit, " Angel" by Shaggy, giving Ahmet Ertegun credit as a songwriter on the latter.#325: Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep by Buddy Knox Lyrics from "Lovey Dovey" (particularly "You're the cutest thing, That I ever did see, I really love your peaches, Wanna shake your tree"), were used by Steve Miller in his 1974 chart-topping single " The Joker". Delbert McClinton (1976) on the album Genuine Cowhide.Otis Redding and Carla Thomas (1967) (released as a single in 1968, following Redding's death), reached No.Bunny Sigler (1967) ("Lovey Dovey"/"You're So Fine"), reached No.
The song deals with the singer's relationship with his sweetheart and is performed in a light-hearted style. 2 for five weeks on the R&B charts in 1954. The song's initial recording by The Clovers remains the best known version, reaching No. " Lovey Dovey" is a popular American rhythm and blues song originating in the 1950s and written by Eddie Curtis and Ahmet Ertegun, with the latter usually credited using his songwriter's pseudonym "Nugetre" (Ertegun spelled backwards). For the T-ara song, see Lovey-Dovey (T-ara song).
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