Two oddball answers:
Jimmie Dodd, one of the two adults in the Mouseketeers and a singer and
guitar
player. Time frame is about right.
If this is who the reference is to it could have been a writer's in joke.
And Carolina Slim (aka Edward P. Harris), who used the pseudonym
"Jammin' Jim"
on Savoy 1106, from early 1951, New York. But the location and time
frame are off.
I do not recognize the name from the Chicago area scene.
Malcolm R
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On 12/9/2018 4:50 AM, Terri Brinegar wrote:
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>> From: Scott Warfield <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: December 7, 2018 at 9:32:34 AM EST
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>> Subject: [AMS-L] Who was "Jamming [???] Dodd"
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>> Dear AMS-L Friends and Colleagues,
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>> I have question related to late 1950s rock 'n roll, which comes out of some current work that I am doing on the origins of the musical Grease.
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>> In the Warren Casey Papers (Chicago Public Library), there are several pages of preliminary ideas for the show. On one of these pages is a handwritten note, which reads:
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>> “Show dedicated to: Big Bopper, Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, Chuck Willis, Eddie Cochran, Allan Freed, Little Willie John, Frankie Lymon, Jamming [illegible] Dodd, Sam Cooke,”
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>> All of these names--save the illegible "Jamming [???] Dodd"--are reasonably well known figures associated with the early days of rock 'n roll, and more importantly all seem to be specifically associated with the years 1957-59 or just beyond. Remarkably, many were dead by 1960 or shortly thereafter, and those who survived a few years beyond were on the downward sides of their careers by 1960-61.
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>> E.g., the Big Bopper, Valens, and Holly were the "Day the music died" in 1959, Willis (d. 1958), Cochran (d. 1960), Freed (off radio 1959, d. 1965), Little Willie John (dropped by his recording label in 1963, went to prison for manslaughter 1964, d. 1968), Frankie Lymon (career declined in 1960, d. 1968), and Cooke (d. 1964).
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>> The only unidentified figure on the list is "Jamming [???] Dodd."
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>> The handwriting is so bad that I did not even hazard a guess on the first name when I examined the papers a few months. I have tried the usual Google and Wikipedia, and I've checked numerous reference books and studies on the history of rock 'n roll/pop/rock, but to no avail. I can find no one with the last name of "Dodd" associated w/ rock 'n roll in the late 1950s.
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>> I am wondering if the mysterious "Dodd" was a local musician, best known in the Chicago area (the setting of the original Grease) or just the upper Midwest around the late 1950s.
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>> Any ideas (public or private) on who this person might be would welcome. This is not crucial to anything, so do not expend great efforts, but it would tie up one loose end.
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>> With thanks for whatever anyone can offer,
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>> Scott
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>> Scott Warfield
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