From:   "Dik de Heer" 
Date:  Tue Dec 31, 2002  7:20 am
Subject:  Born To Be With You : Alvis Wayne

ALVIS WAYNE (By Shaun Mather)

Born Alvis Wayne Samford, 31 December 1937, Puduka, Texas

Alvis Wayne is one of those great unknowns who has never achieved chart
fame, but whose place in rockabilly history is assured thanks to some
brilliant records on the small Westport label. He learned to play guitar at
the age of ten and two years later had begun playing nightclubs and honky
tonks. By the age of 20, he had joined a group called Tony Wayne & the
Rhythm Wranglers. They split after just one single but Wayne soon landed
his own recording contract with Westport Records.
His first single was a great double sider, Swing Bop Boogie and Sleep
Rock-A-Roll, Rock-A-Baby, but it was the follow-up Don't Mean Maybe Baby,
that became his most successful, becoming a sizeable hit in southern Texas,
which led to constant touring around the Lone Star State. His final single
for Westport was Lay Your Head On My Shoulder. He joined the U.S. Airforce
in 1960 and that should have been it. However, a cult following began to grow
in Europe and he began to tour again and recorded a couple of fine albums for
Ronnie Weiser's Rolling Rock label. Me, Phil and Rod went for fish and chips
with him in London before a gig and he was as sweet and quiet a man as you'd
wish to meet.

Recommended listening:
Pink & Black Records. The Westport recordings.
Rockabilly Daddy - Rolling Rock. The title track is brilliant.
Proud Of My Rockabilly Roots.
More info: http://www.rockabillyhall.com/AlvisWayne.html