From:   Flippar
Date:  Tue Jan 1, 2002  5:19 am
Subject:  Born To Be With You - Earl Sinks
 
HENRY EARL SINKS

Born January 1st 1940, near Littlefield Texas.

Recorded 2 singles for Dot in 1958, probably backed by the Big Beats.
Debut A side Whatcha Gonna Do credited to Earl Henry( available on Ace`s
excellent West Texas Bop cd).

Sang with Tommy Allsup`s Western Swing band on tour with Crickets and later
replaced Holly in the Crickets. He sang lead on 18 Crickets sides recorded
between November 21st 1958 and November 12th 1959 (16 of those sides are
available on Bear Family`s Still In Style cd by the Crickets). It`s Earl
Sinks vocals you hear on classics like Someone , Someone, I Fought The Law,
Deborah and When You Ask About Love amongst others.

Earl moved to Nashville in1960 and recorded for several labels under several
names like Omegas, Holidays, Sinx Mitchell and Earl Richards. Later he
appeared in low budget country films, had a few country hits in late 60s as
Earl Richards, before entering the management/record business field. He later
produced Merle Haggard and Mmm- mel Tillis!

Recommended listening

Ace cd West Texas Bop
Bear Family cd Still In Style The Crickets

Discography in New Kommotion 13, Nov 76 and various copies of Crickets File
published by John Firminger. A Google search revealed more detailed
discographical information on Mr Sinks from our very own Finnish SAO expert.
Perhaps Tapio will be so kind as to add that to this posting.