Top Songs
- Date Bait · 1995
- Discover 50s One Hit Wonders · 2012
- Ultimate Oldies But Goodies One Hit Wonders · 2008
- Winter - EP · 2015
- Winter - EP · 2015
- Winter - EP · 2015
- Winter - EP · 2015
- Favorite Ballads · 2012
- '50s Jukebox Classics Volume 2 · 2010
- '50s Rockabilly Hellraisers · 2008
- Sun Rock 'N' Roll · 2006
- Fernwood Rock 'n' Roll · 1999
- Fernwood Rock 'n' Roll · 1999
Singles & EPs
- 2015
- 2010
- 2007
About Thomas Wayne
b. Thomas Wayne Perkins, 22 July 1940, Battsville, Mississippi, USA, d. 15 August 1971, Tennessee, USA. Wayne was a classic one-hit artist, the younger brother of Luther Perkins, the guitarist who developed and first played the trademark two-string guitar style behind Johnny Cash. Wayne attended Humes High School in Memphis, where a few years earlier the young Elvis Presley had come and gone with little fanfare. There Wayne formed a group called the De-Lons, which was recorded by Scotty Moore, guitarist for Presley, for the Fernwood Records label, which Moore co-owned. That first single did nothing, but Wayne’s second single for Fernwood, a weepy ballad titled ‘Tragedy’, made it to number 5 in the US national chart. The song had renewed life in 1961 as a hit for the Fleetwoods. Wayne recorded for other labels but was unable to follow that hit, although Presley recorded a song he had written, ‘The Girl Next Door Went A Walking’, in 1960. Wayne eventually moved into production work, but his life was tragically cut short when he was killed in a car collision near Memphis in 1971.
- HOMETOWN
- Batesville, MS, United States
- BORN
- 22 July 1940
- GENRE
- Pop