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                                              TOMMY  ALLSUP

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        GRAMMY

          AWARD

          WINNER

          TOMMY ALLSUP

TOMMY ALLSUP WURDE MIT DEM GRAMMY, DEM "MUSIKOSCAR", FUER SEINE BESONDEREN LEISTUNGEN AUSGEZEICHNET.

TOMMY ON STAGE 2006 WITH JOHNNY ROGERS.







Photo courtesy of Shannon.

TOMMY ZUSAMMEN MIT JOHNNY ROGERS AUF DER BÜHNE IM JAHR 2006.

Tommy started his musical career in Claremore, Oklahoma in 1949 with the "Oklahoma Swingbillies." In 1950 he went to work with fiddle player Art Davis in Miami, Oklahoma; from there to the Cowboy Inn in Wichita, Kansas with singer, fiddle player Jimmy Hall. In 1952 and 1953, he moved back to Tulsa, Oklahoma to join the "Johnnie Lee Wills Band." From 1953 to 1958, he had his own band, "The Southernaires" in Lawton, Oklahoma with homebase being the Southern Club.

  TOMMY IS 


  FANATIC OF


  WESTERN


  SWING.

TOMMY LEBT DEN WESTERN SWING MIT DIESER GROSSEN BAND.

In 1958, Tommy's career would take a different direction.

      NORMAN PETTY


      IN HIS FAMOUS


      STUDIO IN CLOVIS,


      NEW MEXICO.

NORMAN PETTY IN SEINEM BERUEHMTEN STUDIO IN CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO

On a trip to Clovis, New Mexico to record at Norman Petty's famous studio, he met the late Buddy Holly.

     TOMMY

     MET BUDDY

     IN NORMAN

     PETTY'S STUDIO.

IN NORMAN PETTY'S STUDIO TRAFEN SICH BUDDY UND TOMMY ERSTMALS.

In April, he started playing lead guitar with Holly and the Crickets.

TOMMY

WITH BUDDY

AND

WAYLON

JENNINGS

DURING THE

WINTER DANCE

PARTY TOUR

1959.

WAYLON JENNINGS, BUDDY HOLLY UND TOMMY ALLSUP BEI DER WDP 1959.

   THE BEST DIE YOUNG

            DIE BESTEN STERBEN JUNG

He continued playing with Buddy until the fatal plane crash that took Buddy's life, along with the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens.

THE CRASH  SITE.

                            DIE  ABSTURZSTELLE.

It was Allsup who flipped a coin with Ritchie Valens for a seat on the ill-fated plane.

THIS KIND

OF MUSIC

IS

WHAT HE

LIKES MOST.

                       DIESE ART VON MUSIK IST BEI TOMMY DIE NUMMER EINS.

TEXAS MIKE

BELL AND

TOMMY IN THE

STUDIO IN

AZLE, TEXAS.



Courtesy of TMB.








After Holly's death, Allsup moved to California to join Liberty Records as A & R Director of all Country and Western product to begin producing the great Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

His association with Wills lasted through Wills' "For The Last Time" LP, recorded on December 2-3, 1973, in Dallas, Texas, where Bob Wills recorded his first records in 1935. Allsup used some of the original Texas Playboys on the last recording (McAulliff, Shamblin, Dacus, Strickland). Bob Wills directed the sessions from his wheel chair.

While at Liberty, Tommy would produce Tex Williams, Willie Nelson, Joe Carson, Warren Smith, Billy Mize, and Cliff Crofford. While there, he worked with great artists such as Walter Brennan, Bobby Vee, Johnny Burnette, Julie London, and Vickie Carr, who sang harmony with Bob Wills on the LP "Bob Wills Sings and Plays."

After leaving California, Allsup moved to Nashville to head up Metromedia Records in 1968.

            RAY BENSON, FRONT MAN OF

           "ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL",

          NINE-TIME GRAMMY

          AWARD WINNERS,

          THE KINGS OF

          WESTERN SWING.

         RAY BENSON, FRONTMANN VON "ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL", 9 GRAMMYS.

In 1972, he met Ray Benson and Asleep At The Wheel and produced their first LP for United Artist Records. Later he produced 4 LPs for Capitol Records with the group.

TOMMY AND

HIS LOVELY

WIFE CAREN.

               TOMMY UND SEINE HUEBSCHE FRAU CAREN

Tommy Allsup has been a big supporter of Western Swing music over the years. He has produced 5 LPs with the great Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys, 2 LPs with the Original Texas Playboys, and 2 LPs with the great Western Swing vocalist Leon Rausch. Tommy has produced Swing LPs with Jody Nix, Curley Chalker, Mack Sanders, Johnny Bush, Willie Nelson, Tex Williams, and Billy Mize.

TOMMY WEARING BUDDY GLASSES IN HIS STUDIO IN AZLE DURING THE RECORDING SESSIONS OF "FOR THE LOVE OF BUDDY" WITH TEXAS MIKE BELL.

Courtesy of TMB.

WAEHREND EINER STUDIOSESSION MIT TEXAS MIKE BELL FÜR DIE CD "FOR THE LOVE OF BUDDY" TRUG TOMMY DIESE BUDDY-BRILLE.

TOMMY AND HIS SON AUSTIN, A VERY TALENTED SINGER.





Courtesy of TMB.

TOMMY UND SEIN SOHN AUSTIN, EIN SEHR TALENTIERTER SAENGER.

AUSTIN

USUALLY

BREAKS

THE HEARTS

OF MANY

GIRLS,

HERE IS

ANOTHER

"VICTIM".

NORMALERWEISE IST AUSTIN DER HERZENSBRECHER BEI MAEDCHEN,
HIER HAT ER EIN ANDERES "OPFER".


Tommy still lives in Azle Texas where he remains active in the music business. He has played guitar or bass on over 6500 recording sessions. All of this is good enough for Tommy Allsup, who has few regrets. "I never really wanted to be a big star, I figured I'd leave that to someone else."

  
     AUSTIN ALLSUP HAD HIS DEBUT AS A
    SINGER ON THE CD "FOR THE LOVE
    OF BUDDY".



    HIS FIRST OWN CD "ETERNITY" IS
    ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS.








AUSTIN DEBUTIERTE AUF DER CD "FOR THE LOVE OF BUDDY". SEIN ERSTES EIGENES ALBUM "ETERNITY" IST GENIAL.

TOMMY WITH JOHNNY ROGERS IN FRONT OF THE BUDDY HOLLY CENTER IN LUBBOCK DURING THE CELEBRATIONS OF BUDDY'S 70TH BIRTHDAY.

                     SMALL PEOPLE, BIG GLASSES.

TOMMY UND JOHNNY ROGERS VOR DEM BUDDY HOLLY CENTER IN LUBBOCK TEXAS WAEHREND DER FEIERN ZU EHREN VON BUDDY'S 70. GEBURTSTAG.

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THANX A LOT TO MY GOOD FRIEND TOMMY ALLSUP, WHO LICENSED ALL

PHOTO AND TEXT MATERIAL FOR MY SITE BY WRITTEN PERMISSION.

                                (Except otherwise mentioned.)

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