TOMMY ROE
When Tommy Roe was growing up in Atlanta, so were future music stars Ray Stevens, Joe South and Billy Joe Royal. The four would cross paths often during the 1960s on the way to building successful careers. For Tommy, born in 1942, it was during his high school years in the mid-'50s that he formed a group with two of his pals from Brown High School, calling themselves The Satins (after a favorite of theirs, The Five Satins, who had hit big in 1956 with "In the Still of the Nite"). By 1960 he was already making music professionally, having recorded "I Got a Girl" with the Satins for the Mark IV label. He met Felton Jarvis, who'd waxed a couple of his own records including "Don't Knock Elvis," a spoken rockabilly record that would presage his work producing Presley's ... MORE ››
