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A Live CD of Tommy and WCR
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You will enjoy this story, based on the true
life of Tommy Kizziah, and the music he and his West Coast Ramblers made
throughout the 1950's. While you've visited the website, you've heard some of
their music. Those songs, along with many others, are on this studio CD.
ISBN 0-9769528-0-7
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STUDIO
Tommy Kizziah and his West Coast Ramblers
1. Long Tom Boogie ~ Instrumental, WCR
2. Crying My Heart Out ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah
3. Sleepy Little Redhead ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah
4. When I First Laid My Eyes On You ~ Vocal Tommy Kizziah
5. Cottontail Stomp ~ Instrumental, WCR
6. Pretty Little Girl ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah
7. I'm Waiting For You ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah ~ Talking, special guest~ Smiley Burnett
8. She Just Stood Around ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah
9. Ramblers Boogie ~ Instrumental, WCR
10. Angels Smile Down From Above ~ Vocal, Buddy Simmons
11. What Do You Say We Get Together ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah
12 I'm Waiting For You ~ Vocal, Ed Zunck
13. Two Timing Kind ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah
14. Whittaker Rag ~ Instrumental, WCR
15. Too Much Light In My Eyes ~ Vocal, Buddy Simmons & Evelyn Kinnee
16. United Nations ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah
17. Keep Our Country Free ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah
18. In This House ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah
19. United Nations (1968) ~ Vocal, Tommy Kizziah
20. Long Tom Boogie ~ Instrumental, WCR
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Tommy Kizziah was born in Rockwood, Tennessee in 1915, into a musical family.
An ugly child with a cocked eye, most people thought Tommy was retarded, including his father who is ashamed to be seen with the boy. However, Tommy's talent of playing the guitar and singing soon show them they are wrong.
His father bought him his first guitar at a pawn shop for three dollars. Tommy, nine years old, taught himself to play and soon joined his family on the medicine show circuit. In 1929, after his mother's death, he hitchhiked to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he met the father of country music, Jimmy Rogers. For years after the encounter with Mr. Rogers, Tommy took the name Jimmy had given him, Sonny
Rogers.
When he grew up, he played with numerous bands in Tennessee, South Carolina, and Texas. In 1948 he moved to the state of Oregon where he, along with his brother Jack, put together a band. Soon the band would be known as Tommy Kizziah and his West Coast
Ramblers.
The West Coast Ramblers were nationally recognized as one of the top five bands in the country. They performed on live radio shows from the stage of The Wagon Wheel Park, The Division Street Coral and more. Their show aired every Saturday night right after the Grand Old Opry with guest stars such as Willie Nelson, Ray Price and Marty Robbins.
This book is about Tommy's life. Tommy Kizziah was truly the Star That Twinkled but Never Got to Shine.
