Posted on 01/25/2021 5:50:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
The singer who recorded the hits “Honeycomb,” “Kisses Sweet Than Wine” and many other popular songs during the 1950s and 60s has died
Jimmie Rodgers, singer of the 1957 hits “Honeycomb” and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine” whose career in music and movies was disrupted by a severe head injury a decade later, has died at age 87.
Rodgers died from kidney disease on Jan. 18 in Palm Desert, California, and had also tested positive for COVID-19, publicist Alan Eichler said Saturday, citing family.
Rodgers performed for $10 a night around Nashville while stationed there with the U.S. Air Force after the Korean War. He appeared on a talent show and got an audition with Roulette Records, which signed him after hearing him perform “Honeycomb,” a song by Bob Merrill.
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Was one of my favorite love songs in the 50’s.... as a teen.
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LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!! I needed this visual memory tonight. Life has really been rough on us all lately and a good hearty laugh sure can be healing! thanks.
Lol. Good :)
And no offense to Jimmie Rogers, who’s songs weren’t bad, just overplayed. Hopefully up in Heaven on NEW linoleum squares ;)
My Dad has always been a fan, old enough to remember his heyday in the late ‘50s - early ‘60s.
Rogers also sang the very nice “Oh-Oh I’m Falling in Love Again”, 1958, #7 on Billboard; Secretly - 1958, # 3; Are You Really Mine, 1958, #10; “Bimboombey, 1958, #11 - a singalong song for your old folks; Born 9/18/33. Serious head injury from an assault on the San Diego Freeway, 12/1/67, fractured skull.
A good guy. RIP!
Oh-Oh OH-OH, I thought I wouldn’t get caught again, never in a hundred, never in a thousand, never in a million years.......dang, I love that song!!
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