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Rocket Morgan

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Rodney 'Rocket' Morgan was from Crowley, South Louisiana, also the home of Jay Miller's recording studio. He recorded a number of tunes for Miller in the 1950's. The most well-known three: 'It's A Sin' released on Miller's Zynn label (2 versions were recorded, the second featured a vibraphone, and this was issued) 'Tag Along '(definitely released on a 45 - I have it on a 10 Cd set of 45 rpm rips - but not necessarily by Miller),' You're Humbuggin' Me' (not sure if this was released, the song may have been 'passed on' - I'm sure Lefty Frizzzell recorded it)

It should be pointed out that, in the 50's, Jay Miller's studio was, like a lot of others, quite 'local' . He didn't release a lot of stuff on his own labels, either the track or the song was 'passed on' to bigger labels. A lot of unreleased tunes didn't come to light until the mid-70's, when a revival of interest caused lots of old unknown stuff to be 'discovered'.

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No fame for Rocket Morgan though. He quit music shortly after his recordings and took to the road as an itinerant preacher

This info. is from 1980 - so it might bear some updating

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