Artist: Tommy Roe
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
1960-1969: 50 Songs
Year: 1993
Tracks: 51
We Can Make Music
Year:
Tracks: 12
The Best......
Year:
Tracks: 31
Golden Greats
Year:
Tracks: 16
Widely sensed as one of the prototypical bubblegum artists of the late '60s, Tommy Roe contract some pretty decent bikers along the room, specially early in his life history -- many displaying some pretty salient Buddy Holly roots. In fact, Roe's initial down smash, 1962's chart-topping "Sheila," was quite remindful of Holly's "Peggy Sue," utilizing a very similar throbbing drumfish beat and Roe's hiccuping vocal. The isaac M. Singer had antecedently cut the sung dynasty for the littler Judd label before remake it in superior variant for ABC-Paramount. The infectious "Everybody" -- some other hot item the next year -- was waxed in Muscle Shoals at Rick Hall's Fame studios, unremarkably an R&B-oriented deftness (it's non wide known that Roe wrote songs for the Tams, a raw-edged mortal chemical group from his Atlanta hometown).
Once Roe veered off on his squeaky-clean bubblegum tan, he stuck with it for the rest of the decennary. His lighthearted "Scented Pea" and "Hurrah for Hazel" burned-over up the charts in 1966, and he was still at it trey years later when he waxed his biggest hit, "Empty-headed," and "Pack Up Jelly Tight."
