Reece Shipley (1921 - 1998) was a well-respected Country Swing and Rockabilly songwriter and singer. In the early 1950s, Shipley performed regularly on radio programs, such as WKPT’s “Saturday Night Hayride.”
He released a number of rockabilly records in the mid 1950s, for such labels as Decca, Mercury and BML. His song “Milk Bucket Boogie,” became a big hit for Red Foley. Other recordings of his from this period, include “Catfish Boogie,” “Will Good Times Last Forever?,” “I‘ve Got Wrinkles Where My Dimples Used To Be” and “Hillbilly Jive with a Boogie Beat.”
Reece Shipley is most often remembered for Western swing music. During the last decades of his life, Reece was a regular performer at music festivals, including the Smithsonian Folk Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D.C..
Reece was well-liked and highly respected as a teacher and mentor by a generation of regional old-time and Western swing musicians.
Reece performed regularly at Dollywood with guitarist Red Peterson, and was inducted into the Birthplace of Country Music in Bristol, Tennessee.
Reece Shipley also recorded a Christmas song, for Orchard Records, involving Santa Claus and the cold war, called “Can Santa Miss Those Missiles,” with Rudolph and the other reindeer dodging Redstone, Jupiter, Polaris and Saturn 5 missiles.
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