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Full Name: Eddie James Bond
Description: Singer and guitarist, USA
Known For: Recorded for Mercury Records – Eddie Bond & the Stompers
Instruments: Vocals, Guitar
Music Styles: Rockabilly music.
Location: TN, United States of America
Date Born: 1st July 1933
Location Born: Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
Date Died: 20th March 2013
Location Died: Bolivar, Tennessee, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Eddie Bond
An American pioneer singer and guitar player of American Rockabilly music.
In the mid-1950s, Bond recorded for Mercury Records and toured with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Warren Smith and others.
Despite never becoming a major national figure, Eddie Bond has carved out a place as a rockabilly and country star, as well as a radio personality, for 50 years. A contemporary of Elvis Presley and a fixture in Memphis and on the Louisiana Hayride in the mid-’50s, Bond was one of the best singers of the period, and led the Stompers, one of the hottest bands, but he never broke out the way Elvis did.
His records, whether rockabilly, country, or gospel, however, were among the best to come from Memphis from the mid-’50s through the 1960s, and helped Bond remain a much loved country/rockabilly performer into the new millennium.
He is most infamous for having rejected the then 18-year-old Elvis Presley, who was auditioning for Bond’s band. It was shortly thereafter that Presley recorded his first single at Sun Records.
Bond’s contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
He died of Alzheimer’s disease in 2013.
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