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Who could have known, at 18-years of age, I would be serving along side of one of the most famous crooners of the Elvis era?
I took this photo of Jimmie Rodgers & John Case, in the summer of 1953; just before hostilities ended with an armistice agreement.
I can still hear "Honeycomb" as I type this string.
In a lengthy biographical sketch, Colin Kilgour relates the following exerpt:
"He left college before graduation to enlist in the US Air Force, volunteered for Korean War duty and was transferred to Seoul where he made the fateful purchase of a battered old guitar from a fellow airman. With some Air Force buddies Jimmie formed a group, The Rhythm Kings. They played military installations in Korea for a year until J. was transferred back home to a base near Nashville. Here he heard another performer singing 'Honeycomb' and liked it enough to rearrange it to suit his own style (writer Bob Merrill's song had first emerged in 1954). On finishing his service stint, Rodgers returned to Washington State where he became a popular artist. Singer Chuck Miller lent Jimmie the airfare to travel to New York in the summer of 1957, to audition for 'Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts' TV program, (which he won).
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