Sparkle Moore

Rockabilly bombshell Sparkle Moore was born Barbara Morgan in Omaha in 1939. The quintessential bad girl, she dressed in leather (and often in men's clothes), with her short blonde hair greased back in an Elvis Presley-styled pompadour--dubbed "Sparkle" in honor of a supporting character in the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, she signed to the Cincinnati-based Fraternity label to issue her debut single, the hiccupping "Rock-a-Bop," in late 1956, and though still just 17 years old she toured the U.S. in support of the record, even opening for Gene Vincent at the peak of his fame. (A ...