The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard pop charts, #5 on the Billboard Country & Western charts and #8 on the Billboard R&B charrs. “Be-Bop-A-Lula” spent seven weeks in the Top Ten of the Cashbox charts, peaking at #5, and 13 weeks in the Top 20 on the Cashbox charts. He regularly appeared on WCMS’s Country Showtime program and began to perform a song called “Be-Bop-A-Lula”. By early 1956, his leg still in plaster, Gene began hanging around this radio station occasionally singing with the staff band, The Virginians. This led to Davis becoming Vincent’s manager. Navy. With his band playing in local Norfolk bars and clubs, Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps soon won a talent contest organized by a local radio DJ, “Sheriff Tex” Davis. Blue Caps was a reference to the color of caps sailors word in the U.S. In time the band was renamed Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps. They consisted of lead guitarist “Galloping” Cliff Gallup, rhythm guitarist “Wee” Willie Williams, upright string bass player “Jumpin'” Jack Neal and a 15 year-old drummer named Dickie “Be-Bop” Harrell. He formed a rockabilly band named The Virginians who played at a local radio station. Craddock changed his name to Gene Vincent, with his first name, Vincent, as his surname and his shortened middle name, Eu gene, as his first name.
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The female driver in a Chrysler who who ran a red light and struck him was drunk. He wore a steel sheath around the leg from then onward. But the injury left him with a limp and chronic pain. In July 1955 his left leg was shattered in a motorcycle crash in Norfolk. However, in 1955, he used his $612 re-enlistment bonus to buy a new Triumph motorcycle. His completed a Korean War deployment though he never saw combat. Craddock planned a career in the Navy. Norfolk, Virginia, was the home of a large naval base and Vincent’s parents opened a general store and sailors’ tailoring shop. Vincent Eugene Craddock dropped out of school at 17 and enlisted in the U.S. He received his first guitar at the age of twelve as a gift from a friend. He later took the stage name Gene Vincent and is best known for the rockabilly hit from 1956 titled “Be-Bop-A-Lula.” From a young age he was interested in classical music as well as country and rhythm and blues. Vincent Eugene Craddock was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1935. 4 weeks on Vancouver’s Red Robinson chart
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