Jack Bradshaw

Affiliated with the country scene of Indiana, Jack Bradshaw was a good-natured country singer who released a series of singles in the '50s, all showing promise that never quite translated into success. He may never had a hit as a performer, but he wrote songs covered by Carl Smith ("Don't Tease Me") and Kitty Wells (whose "Searchin' (For Someone Else)" was patterned on Bradshaw's "Searchin'"), he continued performing in Indiana for decades and those '50s sides, collected on a 2012 Bear Family compilation called Saturday Night Special, are ingratiating. Martin Hawkins tells th...