- Jimmy Wages Trivia: He was born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1935, lived there all his life, and attended elementary school with Elvis Presley.
- Jimmy Wages Trivia: Unlike many of the Rockabilly era, Jimmy Wages wrote all of his own songs.
- Jimmy Wages Trivia: He landed recording sessions with Sun Records in Memphis in 1956.
- Jimmy Wages Trivia: Reportedly Sam Phillips was keen to release one song, “Mad Man", to the public, ...
- Jimmy Wages Trivia: ... but, believing that his material would not be commercially successful, Sun producer Jack Clement talked Phillips out of issuing any Wages’ songs.
- Jimmy Wages Trivia: Because Sun had paid all of the expenses for the recording session, including, musician fees, Jimmy was not allowed to take the tapes to other studios.
- Jimmy Wages Trivia: Thus, The Sun sessions remained unreleased fror 25 years, when Jimmy’s music was finally heard by the worldwide rockabilly community and lauded as raw genius.
- Jimmy Wages Trivia: Jimmy Wages died in 1999.
