On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 00:10:48 +0000, soulexpress@gmail.com (Dean) wrote:

Larry Collins, 79, died of natural causes on Friday, January 5th. In the '50s, he and his late sister Lorrie made some killer rockabilly as the Collins Kids.

Natural causes, only 79 !!!

I'm half-expecting my genes to see me into my 90s :-)

I was and am a big fan of Larry Collins' energetic, talented, and
unique stage presence/showmanship from 1956-1959, something to
behold forever.

Larry Collins, with Joe Maphis on violin bass, play Ramrod live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAQvu7OqrY
accompanied by very talented Town Hall piano player blind Jimmy
Pruett aka Jimmy Wilson, and drummer Pee Wee Adams

with his older sister, Lawrencine 'Lorrie' Collins (1942-2018):
- "Hoy Hoy"
https://youtu.be/-sbtVzHZDEY?t=21
- "Johnny B. Goode"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ1TYUK8T8
- "High School Confidential"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G19nXIYpk3Y
- "Great Balls Of Fire"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJob6kilGXQ
- "Rockaway Rock", earlier, in 1956
https://youtu.be/GfRENCv2J1k?t=19
(Lorrie has a noticeably younger face here)

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