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Jim
Hendricks
The
Professional music career of Jim Hendricks began in Omaha, Nebraska
in the early 1960's. As the story goes, one evening while singing
in a local folk music club Jim met and became friends with Cass
Elliot. Cass wanted to form a folk music trio and had already enlisted
the talents of Tim Rose. After hearing Jim sing and play the guitar
Cass knew that he would be the perfect third member! The group was
formed and they called themselves The Big Three…
The
trio headed east (as all good folk singers do) and landed a job
at the The Bitter End, a well known night club in New York City's
Greenwich Village. The group continued to perform at The Bitter
End and as their reputation grew, so did the offers. They soon "hit
the road" for a college tour with comedian Bill Cosby. From there
came performances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Danny
Kaye Show and other television variety shows of the era. In 1964,
as the "electric" sound became more prominent and "Pop Music" was
slowly replacing folk music, Jim and Cass decided to expand the
group. They added Denny Doherty a successful Canadian singer, and
guitarist Zol Yanovsky. They called themselves The Mugwumps…
Although The Mugwumps were short lived , their place in Rock 'n
Roll history is firmly established. They were the forerunner to
the legendary group, The Mama's and Papa's. The pop music sound
of the sixties had arrived!
After
The Mugwumps, Jim moved to Los Angeles to start a successful solo
career. He began writing for Johnny River's publishing company,
and in 1967 he penned his first million seller… "Summer Rain". This
started a long friendship between Jim and Johnny and brought continued
success with other hit songs like "Muddy River" and "Look
To Your Soul". In 1970 Jim met actor Michael Parks who was
beginning a new TV series called "Then Came Bronson". Jim wrote
the series theme song "Long Lonesome Highway" and shortly
after the song was released it became a crossover hit on the pop,
country and adult contemporary charts. Jim went on to produce three
records for Michael Parks with two of them reaching "gold record"
status.
Tiring
of the L.A. life style and seeking a more pastoral setting, Jim
moved to Nashville, Tennessee. During the 1970's and into the 1980's
Jim toured with his family band and wrote several hits in the Contemporary
Christian music field. They included "The Mighty One Of Israel",
"New Wine" and "From Glory to Glory".
Soon,
Jim met Steve Swann, who had experience in the instrumental music
market, and together they decided to start their own independent
record label. In 1996, Maple Street Music was formed.
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