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The 10-piece Town Hall Party band featured Joe Maphis, Merle Travis, superb steel guitarist Marian Hall, Billy Hill and Fiddlin' Kate on violins, PeeWee Adams on drums, Jimmy Pruitt on piano, and other excellent musicians who created a Town Hall Party sound also heard on many country sessions produced by Columbia Records in Hollywood in the ...
The Collins Kids became regular performers on Town Hall Party in 1954 and on the syndicated for television version of the show, Tex Ritter's Ranch Party, which ran from 1957 to 1959. [2] It was on Town Hall Party that Ricky Nelson first saw Lorrie Collins, and soon after they began dating. [3]
The Collins Kids became regular performers on Town Hall Party in 1954, [3] [4] appeared on the Grand Ole Opry, and on the syndicated for television version of the show, Tex Ritter's Ranch Party in the late 1950s.
Maphis was a band member and featured soloist on the Town Hall Party radio (and later television) program broadcast throughout the 1950s. [2] Emanating from the Los Angeles area, Maphis was a regular on the program which included many recording stars of the day including Tex Ritter , Johnny Cash , Gene Autry , Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys ...
Many of their performances on Town Hall Party were released on DVD by Bear Family Records of Germany; a CD of their work on the show Rockin' on T.V. was released in 1993 on the Krazy Kat label in Europe. With her brother, Collins is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. [2]
In 1957, the band signed with Imperial Records, where they recorded "All Night Long" (b/w "Red Cadillac and a Black Mustache") and "Amarillo Blues". [2] That same year, the band appeared on the Town Hall Party in Los Angeles, and appeared in the movie Carnival Rock, where they backed up David Houston. [2]
In 1953, he began performing on Town Hall Party on radio and television in Los Angeles. In 1957, he co-hosted Ranch Party , a syndicated version of the show. He made his national TV debut in 1955 on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee and was one of five rotating hosts for its 1961 NBC-TV spin-off, Five Star Jubilee .
He was a regular member of the Hollywood Barn Dance broadcast over radio station KNX, Hollywood, and of the Town Hall Party which was broadcast first as a radio show on KXLA out of Pasadena, California and later as a TV series from 1953 to 1961. Despite his successes, his personal life became increasingly troubled.