Jay Cee Hill

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JAYCEE HILL Born Hillman Baker, 28 October 1931, Big Sandy (near Nashville), Tennessee For many years, Jaycee Hill was an enigma to collectors. In August 1979, Stuart Colman wrote: "Jaycee Hill has not yet been written-up in any substantial way and will probably remain so until someone eventually tracks him down" (sleeve notes for the LP "Rockabilly, Vol. 3 : CBS, Epic & OKeh Rockabilly Classics, Vol. 3", CBS 83911). Well, things have changed since then. The booklet that accompanies the recent Bear Family CD "That'll Flat Git It, Vol. 23 : Rockabilly From the Vaults Of Columbia Records" has an extensive story (by Colin Escott) on Jaycee. What follows is an adaptation of those notes, with a few additions of my own. Escott calls him Jay Cee, but the label credit on his records reads Jaycee Hill, and in one case (the Argo single) J.C. Hill. Born in Tennessee in 1931, Jaycee (or Hillman Baker, his given name) moved to Cleveland in 1945 and then to Valley View, Ohio, where he finished high school in 1949. He and his buddy, Joe Sway, formed an act, Hill & Joe, the Valley Boys, and began performing country music in and around Cleveland on radio and TV. Cleveland was one of the United States' breakout markets, and Elvis made his first northern appearance there. Shortly thereafter, Hillman and Joe changed their country tune. On July 3, 1956, they went to Audio Recording Studio in Cleveland to record four songs. "A Love So Fine" and "Romp Stompin' Boogie", two fine but very differen

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