ArtistInfo

Jerry Tuttle

g, p, sax, 1937-2014 US
Musician of World and Rock

Born 11 November 1937 Died 25 November 2014, Malden, MO, United States. He played organ, piano, steel guitar or saxophone on many Nashville sessions, on records by Joe Tex ,Charlie Rich, Roy Orbison,Jerry Lee Lewis,Tony Joe White. He was also a songwriter and producer : Monumental Funk (Grand Funk Railroad). He was in the seventies in studio bands recording hits of the day by the score on Spar Records (The New Generation) and probably many others. Jerry played saxophone and piano in Jerry Mercer's band, the Roving Cowboys, in 1956. Narvel Felts later joined playing upright bass when he wasn’t singing. After Mercer married and quit the music business the band was renamed Narvel Felts and the Rockets. On Dot Records, under his own name, he had a release in 1960 : Tweedle-O-Twill / Bop Goes the Weasel (Dot 16093) and, as member of The Gators, another release in 1961 : Sunburst / Canadian Moonlight.

Instruments

• Guitar
• Piano
• Saxophone

Genres

• World
• Rock
• Pop
• R&B/Soul
• Folk

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