Blue Caps

Some articles on blue caps:

Gene Vincent - Biography - Early Music Career
... his name to Gene Vincent, and formed a rockabilly band called the Blue Caps (a term used in reference to enlisted sailors in the U.S ... He and his band are named "Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps", not "...the Blue Caps" as often stated ... Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps soon gained a reputation playing in various country bars in his native Norfolk, Virginia ...
Gene Vincent And His Blue Caps
... Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps is an album by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps ... Cliff Gallup and rhythm guitarist, Willie Williams, had left The Blue Caps in the summer of 1956 ...
Tommy Facenda - Career
... Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Facenda was asked to join Gene Vincent's Blue Caps in 1957, where he was given the nickname "Bubba" ... He toured again with the Blue Caps beginning in 1982, including in Europe. 2012, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Facenda as a member of the Blue Caps by a special committee, aiming to correct the previous wrong of not including the Blue Caps with Gene Vincent ...

Famous quotes containing the words caps and/or blue:

    “... people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fools’ caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Trees appeared in groups and singly, revolving coolly and blandly, displaying the latest fashions. The blue dampness of a ravine. A memory of love, disguised as a meadow. Wispy clouds—the greyhounds of heaven.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)