Werly Fairburn

Werly Fairburn is remembered today as one of the lost legends of rockabilly, but in his own time, his music had a direct influence on country legend Jim Reeves, and he was sufficiently popular to earn his living as a country performer, without ever generating a national hit record. Fairburn recorded for four labels -- Trumpet, Capitol, Columbia, and Savoy -- during the '50s, but his earliest (and always principal) fame came from the radio, where he was both a deejay and a performer. Known as "the Singing Deejay" (and, before that, as "the Singing Barber") on New Orleans radio ...