Tom King

Tom King  (July 13, 1942 – April 23, 2011) was an American songwriter, guitarist, and arranger.  He founded the 1960’s rock band The Outsiders, and co-wrote the band’s biggest hit song, “Time Won’t Let Me”.   (More from Wikipedia)

Name changes are sometimes not up to you.  As I wrote many years ago, when the Starfires came up with their signature song “Time Won’t Let Me”, Capitol Records told them to pick a new name, so they came up with the Outsiders.  Later, Sonny Geraci and Tom King were each heading up a band called the Outsiders; when King legally won the rights to the name, Geraci’s band – which included Outsiders guitarist Walter Nims – changed their name to Climax and had an even bigger hit with a Nims song, “Precious and Few”.  

(June 2014)