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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZCURLESS, Dick(b 17 March '32, Fort Fairfield ME; d 25 May '95, Augusta ME) Deep-voiced truck-driving singer. Sang cowboy songs as the Tumbleweed Kid in teens; served in Korea '51-4, on Armed Forces Network as The Rice-Paddy Ranger. Worked in New England; won Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout TV competition '57, gigs in Las Vegas, Hollywood; records on small labels in Maine (Tiffany, Allagesh, etc.); truck-driving song "A Tombstone Every Mile' picked up by Tower Records (Capitol subsidiary), made country top 5 '65 plus "Six Times A Day' '65, "All Of Me Belongs To You' '67, "Big Wheel Cannonball' '70, "Loser's Cocktail' '71, etc. With Buck Owens' All American Show '69-71; preferred living/working in Northeast. LPs: Hard Travelling Man '71, Last Blues Song '72, Keep On Truckin' '75, all on Capitol; End Of The Road '74 on Hilltop, The Great Race '83 on Rocade. Last album Traveling Through '95 on Rounder. |