Chuck Comer

Chuck Comer (born July 27, 1934 in Arkansas ) is an American country and rock 'n' roll musician and DJ.

Life

Childhood and youth

Chuck Comer was born in Arkansas in 1934 and raised by his mother alone, as his father died when Comer was two years old. He spent his childhood in Missouri , Oklahoma , New Mexico and Virginia . In 1952 the family finally settled in Newport , Arkansas, where Comer began to play the guitar and made his first contacts in the music scene. His greatest musical influence was country.

Career

From 1953 Comer had his first own radio show on KNBY in Newport, which he won through a talent competition. After a few months at the Keegans School of Broadcasting in Memphis , Tennessee , he began performing in clubs and bars himself from 1956. In 1958 he saw young Larry Donn at the Clover Club in Swifton, Arkansas, and recorded some demos with him that he played on his radio show.

In 1959 Comer met Arlen Vaden, who owned the Vaden Records label . In early 1959, Comer and his band, consisting of Kern Kennedy ( piano ), JC Caughron ( guitar ), Bob Mickey ( drums ) and probably Frankie Sudduth ( bass ), held a session for Vaden in the KCLN studio, which produced the single A. Little More Lovin '/ Shall We Dance produced. The B-side had some success in the Arkansas jukeboxes. During this time Comer toured the country with other Vaden artists. Teddy Redell , who hadn't played in the session, was his regular pianist during this time. He also often played with Carl Perkins , Warren Smith and Sonny Burgess . In the early 1960s, he turned back entirely to country music.

Comer then moved to KOSE and then to KSUD in West Memphis , Arkansas. Around 1963 he met Gene Williams, who ran the Cottontown Jubilee Records label and Comer were under contract. In addition to two singles that were produced there, Comer also got into the business at times. In the 1960s he also recorded songs for other small Memphis record labels. From then on he concentrated on his career as a DJ.

In 1976, Little More Lovin 'was first released in Europe on an LP on Collector Records , but it wasn't until 2003 that Steve Kelemen was able to track down Comer and interview him. In 1996 he was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame and in February 2010, already in poor health, took part in a Vaden reunion show in a wheelchair.

Discography

year	title	Label #
1960	Little More Lovin '/ Shall We Dance	Vaden 302
1963	A Love That Never Dies / I Had My Fingers Crossed	Cottontown Jubilee 106
	What Are We Gonna Do / I'm the Luckiest Guy in the World	Cottontown Jubilee
	My Adobe Hacienda / You Ain't Nothing But a Heartache	CMC 7696
Unpublished titles
	I like your company	Cottontown Jubilee

Web links

• Entry into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
• biography
• Discography with audio samples