UMG (on behalf of EMI); BMG Rights Management, LatinAutor - PeerMusic, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., EMI Music Publishing, Abramus Digital, LatinAutor, and 2 Music Rights Societies Song Turtle Walk. Blue Note released the two-volume Blue Break Beats compilation in the early '90s. The music on Blue Break Beats dates from the late '60s and early '70s, when a large portion of Blue Note's soul-jazz artists began experimenting with funk and rock, creating dense electric fusions that concentrated on rhythm, not improvisation. None of this music has ever received much critical praise from jazz. Blue Break Beats Vol.2 (2LP) JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser.
One-hit wonder Terry Stafford was known for his Elvis sound-alike single 'Suspicion,' which became a Top Five smash even at the height of Beatlemania in 1964. Stafford was born in Hollis, OK, on November 22, 1941, and grew up in Amarillo, TX. He moved to Los Angeles after high school to pursue a singing career and performed at various local dances and social events.
He got the chance to record a demo and chose 'Suspicion,' an album track from Elvis Presley's Pot Luck LP (1962). A local DJ took the song to Crusader Records, which remastered it and released it nationally in 1964. It went all the way to number three on the pop charts and did so during a week when the Beatles held every other spot in the Top Five. Stafford was never able to duplicate its success, though he did reach the Top 30 with his follow-up single, 'I'll Touch a Star.'
He continued to perform and also branched out into acting (the film Wild Wheels) and songwriting, penning Buck Owens' hit 'Big in Vegas.' In 1973, Stafford signed with Atlantic's newly formed country division and recorded a full-fledged country album, Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose. The title track edged into the country Top 40, and its flip side, the Stafford co-write 'Amarillo by Morning,' also enjoyed some regional popularity. It was later covered by George Strait for a major hit. Stafford recorded for Atlantic through 1974 then disappeared from the music scene. He died of liver problems in Amarillo on March 17, 1996.