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The Blue Caps

THE BLUE CAPS

YEAR

2012

INDUCTED BY

Smokey Robinson

CATEGORY

Performers

These are your heroes’ heroes.

The Blue Caps and their revolving door of great guitarists were revered by the likes of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and more.

Tommy Facenda

Tommy Facenda

Paul Peek Jr.

Paul Peek Jr.

Johnny Meeks

Johnny Meeks

Jack Neal

Jack Neal

Dickie Harrell

Dickie Harrell

Cliff Gallup

Cliff Gallup

Bobby Jones

Bobby Jones

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Robert Burke Warren

In the mid-1950s, everyone in the music business was looking for the next Elvis. Enter Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and their massive hit, the insinuating, catchy “Be-Bop-A-Lula.” One of the first self-contained rock & roll bands, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps would relentlessly tour America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, introducing countless audiences to the untamed exuberance of rockabilly.

Fresh out of the navy in the spring of 1956, Vincent was spending time at the Norfolk, Virginia, radio station WCMS, singing a ditty he had written—or bought, depending on which story you believe—called “Be-Bop-A-Lula.

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Class of 2012
it's mighty impossible to stand still when hearing "Be-Bop-A-Lula."
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