"Ronnie was cute and had a Beatle haircut," Danny Smythe recalls, "he looked like Peter Noone and his uncle, Roy Mack, was a top DJ in Memphis." Steve sang lead, while Ronnie and Mike sang backround (mostly of their repertoire were rhythm 'n' blues covers). The DeVilles added three singers from Whitehaven High School (way on the other side of town): Steve Jourdan (who also acted as the band manager), Michael 'Mike' Mosley, and Ronald 'Ronnie' Jordan (b. Either was correct." Actually the name on Danny's drumhead was correct as Devilles when he acquired a new drums a year or so later. The name was spelled DeVilles on the drumhead, but Devilles on the business card. I thought that looked cool, so I painted the Cadillac crest on my drumhead and named the band The DeVilles. His drumhead featured a crest, Count's Crest. I had no desire in high school to join the marching band, so I formed a three-piece instrumental garage band." "When I started playing music my favourite local band was The Counts, aka Tommy Burk and The Counts," Danny adds. That's the music that really turns me on. "I was raised on rock 'n' roll but found that the drums in most songs just kept a beat, so I started listening to big bands from the 30s and 40s. "I got my first set of drums on my 15th birthday," Danny Smythe recalls. Wednesday, July 6, 2016, Memphis, for heart attack), and also included Bartlett High School's students and best friends Ronald 'Ronnie' Carnie on rhythm guitar and Michael 'Mike' Wright on lead guitar. Daniel Ernest Smythe, Wednesday, August 25, 1948, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee - d. The band was originally an instrumental trio led by drummer Danny Smythe (b. Undoubtedly one of the most famous American blue-eyed soul group of the 60's, The Box Tops emerged from a Memphis-based semi-pro rock 'n' roll group called The DeVilles (after the Cadillac Coupe de Ville). Doe, Los Angeles Times, The Jackson Sun, Oakland Tribune, Playground Daily News, San Mateo Times, Binghamton Press And Sun-Bulletin, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Iowa City Press Citizen, The Bridgeport Post, New York Sunday News, The Berkshire Eagle, The Oneonta Star, Ogden Standard-Examiner, The Post-Crescent, The Salt Lake Tribune, Carroll Daily Times Herald, Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, The Post Standard, Ames Daily Tribune, The Sunday Pantagraph, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Jacksonville Journal, Elmira Star-Gazette, Statesville Record & Landmark, The Humboldt Republican, The Cumberland News. So, I would like to thank all the people who, in one form or another, contributed to this timeline: Bill Cunningham, Russ Caccamisi, Danny Smythe (RIP), Michael Harris, Gary Talley, Swain Schaefer (RIP), Alex Chilton (RIP), Ross Hannan, Corry Arnold, Richard Rosebrough, Rob Jovanovic, DeWitt Shy Jr., Vera Ellis, Greg Vick, Roy Mack, Holly George-Warren, Bill Pierce, Kevin Casey, Lorene Thomas, The Concert Database, Adam Di Petto, Mary Ann Comparone Fialkowski, Jean Marc Vallejo, Lois, Ricky Gianco, Aldo Pedron, Kevin Schore, North Carolina Anvil, The Hayward Daily Review, Los Angeles Free Press, Northwest Passage, Stephen Andrews, Erick Crews, Ben Vaughn, Michael Hochonadel, Nick Warburton, Villages News, Candy Kayne, Time Out, Jeffrey Drucker, The Daily Pennsylvanian, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Patty Padgett, Fred Robbins, Keith Badman, Rob Branigin, Andrew G. This day-by-day diary of The Box Tops' live, studio, broadcasting and private activities is the result of three decades of research and interview work by Bruno Ceriotti, but without the significant contributions by other kindred spirits this diary would not have been possible.
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