BUDDY KNOX
It didn't take long for the word to get out about Norman Petty's recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico (a dozen or so miles west of the Texas state line); shortly after its founding, the facility was booked solid with ambitious singers and bands from around the region. Hundreds of recordings produced at Norm's West 7th Street studio were released on labels large and small between the mid-1950s and mid-1990s. The first two to become major sellers were committed to tape on the same day in the spring of 1956 by the same band, The Orchids; guitarist Don Lanier, singer-bassist Jimmy Bowen and singer-guitarist Buddy Knox made up the group's core. The A sides, issued as consecutive Roulette Records singles, were Jimmy's "I'm Stickin' With ... MORE ››
