The Continders aka The Fabulous Six

Clifford Curry

The Continders  (Knoxville, TN.)
aka The Fabulous Six


Personnel :

Clifford Curry

Lewey Guy

Dewey Guy

Bob Adams

Jerry Johnson

Wayne Cronan


Discography :

The Continders
1959 - Mr. Dee Jay / Yes I Do (Blue Sky 105)

Dewey Guy & The Fabulous Six
1959 - Rock A While / Can't Stand To Be Alone (Ridgecrest 1201)


Biography :

While The Five Pennies toured during high school, Clifford Curry & four other friends formed a group called The Bingos. That group included, Willie Earl Drummond, Veste Huddleston, Clayton Whittington and Leon “Mickey” Prater. Curry wrote his own songs and sang into his small reel-to-reel tape recorder until the group saved enough money to drive to Nashville to record one 45 on Nashboro Records.

  
                                                                                                                                     Clifford Curry

Curry was the lead singer on both; “Don’t Say Tomorrow” and “You For Me” the later, a song Curry co-wrote with Mickey Prater. Then the owner of Nashboro Records, Ernie Young, changed their name to The Hollyhocks. The man loved flowers. The following year, he joined a band called the Contenders (Dewey Guy, his twin brother, Lewey Guy, Jerry Johnson, Wayne Cronan, and Bob Adams).

Dewey Guy &  the Fabulous Six

In late 1958, they recorded "Mr. Dee Jay"/"Yes I Do" for Earl Dorrance's Blue Sky Records (although the label called them the "Continders"). Then, as "Dewey Guy and the Fabulous Six," they had "Rock A While"/"Can't Stand To Be Alone" on Ralph Stevens' Ridgecrest Records in early 1959.



Songs :

The Continders

  
Mr. Dee Jay                                        Yes I Do

Dewey Guy & The Fabulous Six

  
       Rock A While                            Can't Stand To Be Alone



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