Here are some home towns and you are being asked to supply the artist that was born there. These are almost all 1950s artists. Some are identified with other towns or cities but I believe they were born here.
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I hope you take advantage of Google and any other high-tech device!
1 - Cheraw, South Carolina - "balloonhead" or "balloonface" Dizzy Gillespie BUY KURIOUS
2. Tupelo, Mississippi = Elvis Presley ELVISCHOMSKY
3. Jackson, Tennessee = Sam Phillips called me a major plowhead but you know my most famous song because it's still being recorded today + Carl Perkins ELVISCHOMSKY
4. Rocky Mount, North Carolina - Humph[song title] You can tell by my whole name that I am no square! Thelonious Sphere Monk FLICKERINGLEXICON
5. Pocohantas, Arkansas - I didn't start out to be obscure but my hit was out of this world. My group was "The Little Green Men" for awhile in honor of my hit. I passed away two months ago. Rockabilly Hall of Fame member - Billy Lee Riley GREASEFORROADS
6. Fort Worth, Texas = Ornette Coleman GVAB
7. Kingsland, Arkansas - You will kick yourself if you don't guess me. Famous worldwide married into the first family of Country Music - Johnny Cash FLICKERINGLEXICON
8. Vernon, Texas - Most people think I was born in Wink, Texas, but no - Roy Orbison ELVISCHOMSKY
9. Ferriday, Louisiana - I was a seminary student and "the greatest rocker who ever lived" - Jerry Lee Lewis ELVISCHOMSKY
10. Goldmine, Louisiana - I was probably the only white artist who recorded for Chess and my guitar player became as or more famous than me. Tough one - his guitar player was James Burton.Rockabilly Hall of Fame member Dale HawkinsFLICKERINGLEXICON
11. Key West, Florida - I'm the toughest; died young and was an alternative trumpet voice to Dizzy Fats Navarro GVAB
12. Norfolk, Virginia - Everyone in the UK knows me; needed bettercardriver though Gene Vincent - ELVISCHOMSKY
13. Newport, Arkansas - recorded for Sun and had a trumpet player instead of tenor sax. Toughie. Rockabilly Hall of Fame member. Recorded for Sun - Sonny Burgess GREASE FOR ROADS
14. Macon, Georgia = Little Richard ELVISCHOMSKY
15. McComb, Mississippi - Changed my name; moved to Chicago and changed rock - Bo Diddley ELVISCHOMSKY
16. Holly Springs, Mississippi - I packed a lot of learning into my 2 years of school and I am better known today than back in the 50s. Co- Wrote a song for Elvis in the 50s - no hits; recorded by the Cramps and many others. Rockabilly Hall of Fame member - Charlie Feathers FLICKERINGLEXICON
Clues will be forthcoming as needed and requested. Good luck & fun

14 is Little Richard.

2 and Elvis was born in Tupelo...

Yes, ElvisC, the King was born in Tupelo

3 was Johnny Cash born in Jackson? :unsure:

2 is Elvis P 6 is Ornette C

$14 is indeed Little Richard, the man who cannot age - good one

Is 6 Buddy Holly? - I'm guessing cause I only know about him and Lubbock, Texas...

GVAB - right you are :applaud: not all are rock or rockabilly...congrats

No, # 6 is Ornette; Buddy was indeed born & Raised In Lubbock

#3 is not Johnny Cash but #3 became a close friend of The Man In Black

Jerry Lee?

#3 - no not Jerry Lee altho he's here

CLUE - No doowop; repeat: no doowop: rock & jazz only

posting CLUES on the quiz announcement - don't forget to Google!

Carl Perkins?

Yes indeed: Carl Perkins...good one

I guessed he must have come from near Memphis. :)

Right - Jerry Lee? Came from the deepest South.... 8 or 9.

YES. 8 OR 9 & THE OTHER IS VERY FAMOUS ALSO EVEN IN THE UK

Jackson, TN, is about 100 miles or so from Memphis

From the clue - and the arrogant quote in it - it's gotta be 8.

Roy Orbison was a Texan, wasn't he?

Yes! The arrogant quote is from Jerry Lee and Roy is the other one - very sharp

Is 15 Bo Diddley?

#15? Bo Diddley? You are on a roll Mr C - correct
Bo always maintained, and who am I to doubt, that he was a cajun not an African American as generally understood

There are a couple of well know rockers or rockabilly artists left and a couple of very well known jazzers....the remainder lived and worked in obscurity with only a flicker or two of national or international recognition
Clues forthcoming upon request

Hooray for me. :applaud:

The rest are pretty flummoxing, though...

A few are but there are several

#s - 3, 7 , 13 are are extremely well known altho two are jazz

augmented clues are being posted on the announcement post

12 Sweet Gene Vincent. Big here, not so big there...

Amen brother, Amen - Loved him but he only had the one top 10 USA hit....beautiful voice to....easily carried Over The Rainbow for instance

Is 11 Charlie Parker? :ohdear:

Ace quiz! :applaud:

no sorry - Bird was born In Kansas City

THERE ARE TWO COHORTS OF CHARLIE PARKER HERE

erm, is 1 Dizzy Gillespie? I can't think of any other "balloon face".

Is #7 Johnny Cash?

7. Johnny Cash?

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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie is correct indeed - good one and glad you got Diz. one of my faves

10 Richie Valens. James Burton's other gig...

#7 IS jOHNNY cASH & i HAVE TO RECREDIT THE ANSWER - SORRY BK BUT FLICK BEAT YOU ON THIS ONE