Tex Ritter's Ranch Party 1957- Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, more

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2. Larry Collins, who passed away earlier this year

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/arts/music/larry-collins-dead.html

"Larry Collins, Rockabilly Guitar Prodigy, Is Dead at 79
He and his sister became child stars in the 1950s by making exuberantly unhinged music. “I had so much energy,” he said, “they didn’t know what to do with me.”
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Although they didn’t sell millions of records or enjoy widespread radio play, Mr. Collins and his sister were ideally suited to the then emergent medium of television and became bona fide stars of the early years of live country music TV. As members of the cast of “Town Hall Party” — a popular TV barn dance hosted by the cowboy singer Tex Ritter in Los Angeles — they brought an untamed, proto-punk sensibility to the West Coast country and rockabilly scenes of their day.

Larry was just 9 years old and his sister 11 when the siblings, clad in matching Western wear, became regulars on “Town Hall Party” in early 1954. “Two little bundles of bouncing T-double-N-T!” was how Mr. Ritter introduced them when they took the stage."...(more)