272 Buddy Knox (1933-1999) and the Rhythm Orchids “Party Doll” and “I’m Stickin’ With You” 1957

Jimmy Bowen (1937- ), from Dumas, Texas, cofounded the Rhythm Orchids with Buddy Knox. They recorded “Party Doll” and “I’m Stickin’ With You” in “Norman Petty’s Clovis studio…a session memorable for Petty’s use of a cardboard box instead of a drum kit (the better to deal with the infernal noise of an actual kit)” (Rick Koster, Texas Music, 1998). 

“Knox remains much less well-known than Vincent, Holly, Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran and other rockabilly performers of the '50s.” However, “‘All through Europe, they're completely dedicated,’ Knox said. ‘Australia's similar to that too. We have sell-out crowds everywhere, and we're talking 3,500-seaters. They just hang on to rockabilly and don't give it up--thank God, because that's what keeps us in business’” (Buddy Seigal, Los Angeles Times, 8/17/1996). 

Buddy Knox and the Rhythm Orchids “Party Doll”

Buddy Knox and the Rhythm Orchids “I’m Stickin’ With You”