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Lorrie Collins

Lorrie Collins

Lorrie Collins has been played on NTS in shows including The Wire Magazine Present Rewired, featured first on 6 November 2014. Songs played include Another Man Done Gone and Another Man Done Gone.

Lawrencine "Lorrie" Collins (May 7, 1942 – August 4, 2018) was an American country, rockabilly and rock and roll singer. Beginning in the mid-1950s, she and her brother, Larry Collins, performed as The Collins Kids.

Born in Creek County, Oklahoma, near Sapulpa, Collins and her brother Larry were individually musically talented as young children. Their parents relocated them to Southern California to further develop their music. They soon became paired as a musical duo.

In the late 1950s, Collins was the girlfriend of television star and teen idol Ricky Nelson, on both the Nelson family's top-rated show The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet and in private life. She made her debut on January 22, 1958, in an episode entitled "The Picture in Rick's Notebook" in which she played the dual role of twin sisters (one being David Nelson's girlfriend and the other Ricky's potential paramour). In this first episode, Nelson and Lorrie duetted on "Just Because" which had been one of the Collins Kids' signature songs (Lorrie played her own guitar and covered the name "Collins" on the neck with her left hand). A month later, her brother made a guest appearance on the show in an episode entitled "Who is Betty?", which aired on February 19, 1958.

In 1959, when Collins was 17, she married Stu Carnall, who was Johnny Cash's manager and twice her age. She continued acting and singing with Nelson on television and recording and touring with her brother until 1961, when she gave birth to her first child. The Collins duo continued to perform into the 1960s, appearing as regulars in the 1963 Canadian music series Star Route, and later made appearances on The Jackie Gleason Show and The Hollywood Palace as late as 1967. Many of their performances on Town Hall Party were released on DVD by Bear Family Records of Germany; a CD of their work on the show, Rockin' on T.V., was released in 1993 on the Krazy Kat label in Europe.

Along with her brother, Collins is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

She and her brother began performing together again in 1992, mostly at music festivals.

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Lorrie Collins

Lorrie Collins has been played on NTS in shows including The Wire Magazine Present Rewired, featured first on 6 November 2014. Songs played include Another Man Done Gone and Another Man Done Gone.

Lawrencine "Lorrie" Collins (May 7, 1942 – August 4, 2018) was an American country, rockabilly and rock and roll singer. Beginning in the mid-1950s, she and her brother, Larry Collins, performed as The Collins Kids.

Born in Creek County, Oklahoma, near Sapulpa, Collins and her brother Larry were individually musically talented as young children. Their parents relocated them to Southern California to further develop their music. They soon became paired as a musical duo.

In the late 1950s, Collins was the girlfriend of television star and teen idol Ricky Nelson, on both the Nelson family's top-rated show The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet and in private life. She made her debut on January 22, 1958, in an episode entitled "The Picture in Rick's Notebook" in which she played the dual role of twin sisters (one being David Nelson's girlfriend and the other Ricky's potential paramour). In this first episode, Nelson and Lorrie duetted on "Just Because" which had been one of the Collins Kids' signature songs (Lorrie played her own guitar and covered the name "Collins" on the neck with her left hand). A month later, her brother made a guest appearance on the show in an episode entitled "Who is Betty?", which aired on February 19, 1958.

In 1959, when Collins was 17, she married Stu Carnall, who was Johnny Cash's manager and twice her age. She continued acting and singing with Nelson on television and recording and touring with her brother until 1961, when she gave birth to her first child. The Collins duo continued to perform into the 1960s, appearing as regulars in the 1963 Canadian music series Star Route, and later made appearances on The Jackie Gleason Show and The Hollywood Palace as late as 1967. Many of their performances on Town Hall Party were released on DVD by Bear Family Records of Germany; a CD of their work on the show, Rockin' on T.V., was released in 1993 on the Krazy Kat label in Europe.

Along with her brother, Collins is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

She and her brother began performing together again in 1992, mostly at music festivals.

Original source: Last.fm

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Another Man Done Gone
Lorrie Collins, Lorrie & Larry Collins
Columbia1959
Another Man Done Gone
Lorrie Collins
Columbia1959