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This group first formed as The Rock N’ Rollers in 1956
while attending Plainview High
School. The original members consisted of Keith
McCormack (vocals/guitar), Charles Edminston
(drums), Aubry DeCordova
(bass) & Joe Torres (lead guitar). With the addition of Richard Stephens
(lead guitar) and Don Allen replacing Edminston the
group began recording at Norman Petty Studios in Clovis,
New Mexico. With a new name “The
String-A-Longs” the group finally hit the mother lode when they moved from
recording vocals to instrumentals. In 1961 they recorded an instrumental
entitled “Wheels”, released on Warwick
#603, that went all the way to #3 in the pop charts.
Although the song had relativly short chart
longevity staying 13 weeks Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra covered the song
taking it to #28. The String-A-Longs follow-up release “Brass Buttons”
reached #35. Sometime later Keith McCormack would co-write a song recorded by
Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs entitled “Sugar Shack” that reached #1 in
1963.
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