Jimmy Spellman

Born in 1935 in Ohio, and best known for his rockin' single "Doggonit," Jimmy Spellman became a regular on the Arizona Hayride show out of Phoenix in the mid-'50s, and played a central role in the development of that city's nascent rockabilly country scene, which also included Duane Eddy, Sanford Clark, and Loy Clingman, among others. He was the first artist signed to Lee Hazlewood's then-fledgling Viv Records imprint in 1955, and working with a band that included guitarist supreme Al Casey, he recorded several top-notch rockabilly and country gems, many of them written by Haz...