Little Joe & the Ramrods

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LITTLE JOE & THE RAMRODS
 
 
Little Joe & the Ramrods  was founded in the early 1960’s by “Little Joe” Hupp and had some success playing throughout the Midwestern United States.  They recorded a single in Oklahoma, “B.B. Limbo” b/w “Yogi Twist”, released on Soma Records; a second recording session, in Minneapolis, yielded “Somebody Touched Me”, “Hurtin’ Inside”, “Oop Poo Pa Doo”, and “We Belong Together”.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
  
Fergie Frederiksen has enjoyed a long, prosperous and highly varied career in music.  Frederiksen was asked by his friend Tommy Shaw to replace him as lead singer in a band called MSFunk, the final permutation of the Smoke Ring that had formed from the combination of two earlier bands from Norfolk, Nebraska dating back to as early as 1959Little Joe & the Ramrods and the Strollers.  Tommy Shaw had been asked to join Styx, where he became one of their key bandmembers up to the present day. 
 
(October 2012)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021