636 Jimmy Gilmer (1940- ) and the Fireballs “Sugar Shack” 1963

“One night while George Tomsco (1940- ) was in his college dorm room listening to an acetate of his band, a fellow student walked by his room and asked who the band was. When the student found out it was Tomsco and The Fireballs, he said they were good and should go to Clovis, N.M., to record with Buddy Holly’s producer Norman Petty….’Sugar Shack’ was written by Lubbock, Texas, songwriter Keith McCormack in 1962. While living with his aunt Fay in Lubbock in 1962, McCormack began every day by trying to write a song. ‘Keith woke up one morning and started with this little ‘Sugar Shack’ thing, and his aunt Fay said, ‘Keith, I really do like that song,’ explains Tomsco. In exchange for forgiving a $40 debt with his aunt, McCormack shared songwriting credits for ‘Sugar Shack’ with her” (Ron Skinner, Mix, June 2011). 

Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs “Sugar Shack”