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Hustlers and Amateurs
2010
Overview
Wayne “Buddy” Knox was twenty-three years old when he recorded “Party Doll” in 1956. He later told an interviewer that he had written the song years earlier when he was “just a kid,” maybe fifteen, entertaining himself on his parents’ farm near Happy, Texas, after chores were done.¹ He traveled to Clovis, New Mexico, just over the state line, in search of a recording studio he had learned of from a fellow West Texan musician, Roy Orbison. Established for company business by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1907, Clovis was an unlikely location for a studio, but
