646 The Collins Kids “Hop, Skip and Jump” 1957

“Along with Michael Jackson, the Collins Kids may have been the most prodigious sub-15-year-olds in rock history. They were one of the first, if not the first, Los Angeles-based rockabilly act; Larry Collins was, without a doubt, the first rock musician to use a double-necked guitar, long before Jimmy Page was causing Led Zeppelin audiences to gasp at his audacity for bringing the instrument onstage…Lorrie Collins, along with the aforementioned Wanda Jackson, was the only game in town as far as female rockabilly singers were concerned” (Richie Unterberger, Unknown Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll, 1998).

The Collins Kids “Hop, Skip and Jump”