Lorrie Collins, Dynamic Rockabilly Queen

Lawrencine May "Lorrie" Collins (May 7, 1942 – August 4, 2018)

To anyone watching television in Southern California in the late 1950s and early 1960s, sibling duo Lorrie and Larry Collins, better known as the Collins Kids, were inescapable.

Every local TV music show out of L.A., they were on pretty consistently, said Chris Hillman, If you think about it, nobody from the West Coast ignited Nashville, but the Collins Kids were as good or better than anything that came out of the southeast.

Lorrie Collins died on Aug. 4 at 76 in Reno, where she had been living in recent years. Her brother revealed the news via Facebook, saying her death was the result of complications from a fall.

Initially regarded as something of a novelty act because of their youth — Lorrie was 12 and Larry 10 when they started performing professionally as a duo in 1954 — the Collins Kids soon became one of the best-kept secrets in rockabilly music, the early hybrid of country — often referred to as “hillbilly” music — and its driving, rhythm-and-blues infused offshoot soon to be known as rock ’n’ roll.

Although Lorrie never achieved widespread fame, many early-rock aficionados put her on a par with some of the greatest singers in pop and country.

I think she’s criminally underrated,” said roots-rock guitarist and bandleader Deke Dickerson, who backed the Collinses for numerous performances in the last quarter century.

She’s one of those female singers who was so good in her heyday that I would put her up there with Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee or Wanda Jackson,” Dickerson told The Times on Wednesday. “But she never had the opportunity, the timing or the right song to break through. She was not billed as a solo artist. But as far as the talent goes, she had the pipes to compete with anybody during that era.

Lorrie along with her brother are the 43rd and 44th inductees of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. She is regarded among the many females artists to have lead the way for the many female fronted rockabilly acts we currently have today in the rockin' scene.

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Regardless what people think,i can count on one hand the amount of ladies in the 50`s who really made an impression,and Lorrie is one,may she rest in peace,her music will live on as one of her greatest legacies..

Old Aged Teddyboy....

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