From:   "Dik de Heer" 
Date:  Sat Jul 27, 2002  1:57 am
Subject:  Born To Be With You : Curtis Gordon

CURTIS GORDON (By Jean-Marc Pezet)

Born 27 July 1928, on a farm near Moultrie, Georgia

Although I didn't attend the 1995 Easter Hemsby festival, by all accounts,
Curtis Gordon went down like hell, and judging by the grin on his face on
the photos I've seen from the event, he sure was quite pleased by the
reception of the fans. 

Curtis Gordon has always played the same kind of good old hillbilly
honky-tonk music from down south, until his retirement from the music
business in the mid 1990s. He spent his childhood listening to music,
digging Ernest Tubb and Bob Wills, and formed his first band in 1949,
playing around Georgia and Florida.

Spotted at a talent contest, he was signed to RCA in 1952. He cut several
sides under the guidance of Steve Sholes, but none of them really made
some noise except "Rompin' And Stompin'" in 1953, a good country
boogie number that led him recording more up-tempo numbers. By 1954,
he had moved to Mercury, and in the middle of the rockabilly craze in
1956, he cut the favorites "Draggin'", "Rock Roll Jump And Jive", I'm Sittin'
On The Top Of The World" and "Mobile, Alabama".
Other records followed, notably for Dollie.

Curtis always had steady work touring and running his Radio Ranch clubs
in Mobile and Georgia, until being rediscovered by European rockabilly
fans in the 1980s.

He is now living a quiet and healthy happy retirement, still riding horses
and hunting.

Recommended listening:
"Play The Music Louder" Bear Family BCD 16253

For some pictures and label shots see:
http://www.theranchgirls.com/bio/curtisgordon.html

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P.S.: Curtis Gordon died 2 May 2004 in Moultrie, Georgia