Jody Reynolds R.I.P

[Joey Deadcat]

http://www.spinner.com/2008/11/18/death-ro...-reynolds-dies/

Jody Reynolds, whose tragic musical tale of a suicidal lover, 'Endless Sleep,' kick-started the "death rock" craze of the late '50s and early '60s, had died in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 75 years old.

In 'Endless Sleep,' an appropriately dirgelike rockabilly ballad written by Reynolds, the singer's girlfriend attempts to drown herself in the ocean after a quarrel. At the song's conclusion, our hero rescues his distraught lady from "an angry sea." Later songs in the teen tragedy genre, such as Mark Dinning's 'Teen Angel,' Ray Peterson's 'Tell Laura I Love Her' and the Shangri-Las' 'Leader of the Pack' felt no such need, happily killing off its protagonists.

The song, which peaked at No. 5 in 1958, was the only hit for the Denver native, who grew up in Oklahoma and Arizona before relocating to California, where he based his career. Reynolds was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1999.

[kittylectro]

jody's music was excellent ... r.i.p.