Updates

• Added info on Jimmy Ford, thanks to Volker Houghton. • Extended and corrected the post on Happy Harold Thaxton (long overdue), thanks to everyone who sent in memories and information! • Added information to the Jim Murray post, provided by Mike Doyle, Dennis Rogers, and Marty Scarbrough. • Expanded the information on Charlie Dial found in the Little Shoe post.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Marshall Lytle RIP

Famous bassist Marshall Lytle passed away on May 25, 2013, at the age of 79, in Port Richey, Florida. Born 1933 in North Carolina, Lytle joined Bill Haley's Saddlemen in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1951. He stayed with Haley and the band throught the first part of the 1950s and can be heard on Haley's most well-known song "Rock Around the Clock" among many others. He left in the mid-1950s and founded the Jodimars then.

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