Bob
Walker's
"Online since 1999"
Early Careers of DJ's & Singers
New Orleans Broadcast Personalities:
Robert Mitchell.....milk route delivery man
Bob Walker.....route delivery man for Tom's Peanuts & Candies
Tommy Tucker.....Saturn auto salesman
Cherie.....WTIX receptionist
Jim Stewart.....taxicab driver
Bob Ruby.....folk singer - a folk trio called Three Guys From Montana.
Singers:
Lee Dorsey.....boxer ( "Kid Chocolate" )
Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler ("Ballad of the Green Berets").....Army Sargeant
Bobby Goldsboro, Conway Twitty, Bob Luman, Slim Whitman, Charlie Pride
.....semi-pro or minor league ballplayers
Elvis Presley.....truck driver
Rick Nelson.....actor in his parents' Ozzie & Harriett TV show
Jackie Wilson.....boxer (fought under the name of Sonny Wilson)
Mitch Miller.....short-order cook
Johnny Mathis.....track star who was urged to participate in the Olympic trials
(turned the invitation down to go into singing instead)
Solomon Burke.....boy preacher, mortician and embalmer
Bruce Springsteen and Graham Parker.....pumped gas
Bob Marley.....drove a forklift in Delaware (on the night shift)
Bobby "Blue" Bland.....B.B. King's chauffeur
Billy Swan.....Webb Pierce's chauffeur
Little Richard.....Dish washer at the greyhound bus station in Macon GA
Otis Redding.....garbage collector and chauffeur
Larry Williams.....chauffeur and valet to Lloyd Price
James Brown.....shoeshine "technician"
Tammy Wynette.....hair dresser
George Jones......house painter
Big Bopper.....DJ on KTRM in Beaumont, TX
Joe Cocker.....plumber
Paul Revere.....diner owner
Mark Lindsay....."Bun Boy" (he delivered the buns to Paul Revere's restaurant)
Rod Stewart.....grave digger
Stevie Nicks.....house cleaner
Chuck Berry.....hair dresser
Sister Janet Mead (The Lord's Prayer, #4 in 74).....nun
The Singing Nun (Dominique, #1 in 63).....nun