JOHNNIE & JACK - MAGAZINE PAGE SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: JOHNNIE WRIGHT, JACK ANGLIN - HFSID 82708

JOHNNIE & JACK: JOHNNIE WRIGHT, JACK ANGLIN
Magazine page with b/w photo of Johnnie Wright and Jack Anglin dressed in checked shirts and holding guitars, signed by both in pencil. This page was probably printed after 1961, when the band changed its name from the Tennessee Mountain Boys to Johnnie & Jack.
Magazine photo signed "Johnnie Wright" and "Jack Anglin" in pencil. Brown-toned b/w, 5¾x8 overall, 5x5 image, one surface. Titled: "Johnnie and Jack". With a short bio below the photo. This page was probably printed between 1961, when the band changed its name from the Tennessee Mountain Boys to Johnnie & Jack, and 1963, when Anglin died. The country duo of JOHNNY & JACK was formed in 1938 by JOHNNIE WRIGHT (1913-2011), born in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, and JACK ANGLIN (1916-1963). They started out as the Tennessee Hillbillies but had to change their name to the Tennessee Mountain Boys in order to appear in the Grand Ole Opry; they changed their name to Johnnie & Jack only during the last two years of the band's existence. Johnnie & Jack hit their stride in the 1950s after Anglin was discharged from the United States Army following World War II, filling in for Roy Acuff at the Grand Ole Opry by 1947 and scoring their first Top 10 country hit, Poison Love in 1951. Johnnie & Jack cracked the charts by infusing their bluegrass songs with a rhumba beat, complete with a maracca and wire brush. This was considered a novelty back then, especially in the conservative Grand Ole Opry. Johnnie & Jack placed in the Billboard country charts 15 times with their signature Latin beats and, later in their career, countrified rhythm-and-blues songs. The band teamed up with Kitty Wells in 1949 and, after the success of Poison Love and Wells' own hits, became an in-demand road-show act. Anglin continued to perform after Anglin's death in 1963. Irregular edges. Signatures are faint but legible. Otherwise in fine condition.