Who was/is Jim Ringo ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Jim Ringo
Mac Wiseman, the roly-poly bluegrass singer, cut a version of Jim Ringo's I Like This Kind Of Music in 1961. Both versions were recorded for DOT, but Wiseman doesn't remember Ringo, aka Jimmy Rings, at all. Those who do, including rockabilly singer Glen Glenn, talk vaguely and briefly of a Fred Maddox discovery who played the clubs and bars of North Hollywood around 1957. It's likely that Maddox, veteran bass player with the Maddox Brothers and Rose, produced Ringo in a local studio and sold the master to DOT, who put it out in mid-1958 and again in late '59.
Fred Maddox died in 1992, but the story on Ringo could surface yet.
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