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Artist
Loy Clingman
12+ albums
rockabillyoldiescountry
about
If there was a man ... who was burning both ends of the candle it was Loy Clingmam, who was recording, writing and performing his tunes on the weekend as he supported his family on a teacher's wage in the tiny town of Arlington, west of Phoenix. He taught the sixth-grade for 27 years. Born in Williams, Arizona, Clingman's family moved to Texas and New Mexico before returning to the Grande Canyon State for grade school in Ashfork, high school in Wickenburg and college in Tucson. He began teaching and started to develop his writing focusing on the Western lifestyle that he knew so well. Soon Lee Hazelwood signed him to Viv and later he became the owner. Clingman recorded "Rockin' Down Mexico Way" at his tiny garage studio in 1960 after the Indian School studio closed and he assumed the meager assets of Viv Records. He would continue to write and produce there for the next 15 years, well into the early '70s. Around this time Clingman and his wife Hassie opened a coffee house in Scottsdale on weekends, to give local performers exposure. He recorded for Liberty Bell, Dot, Four Corners and Capital as well as his own labels under a variety of different names. Very few copies of Viv 3401 were press, making this one of the most sought after desert discs by collectors. -by John Dixon, Tempe, AZ. Loy Clingmam... indeed had a yearning to write and sing songs about the Western lifestyle that he knew so well. He had be playing guitar (mostly
top songs
albums
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Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From the Golden Age
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The Best Of Rockabilly
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Rockabilly Rampage
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Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Vol 8
Son-Of-A-Gun and more from the LEE HAZLEWOOD SONGBOOK
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That'll Flat Git It vol.05
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Hillbillies In Hell: The Rapture
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Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From the Golden Age (Disc 4)
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Rock-A-Billy Vol. 2
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Atomic Platters (Disc 4)
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THAT'LL FLAT GIT IT, VOL. 5 (Dot Records)
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Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From the Golden Age of Homeland Security