HBD Curly Chalker

Johnny Cox · Post by **Johnny Cox** » 22 Oct 2022 9:04 am

Happy birthday Harold Lee "Curly" Chalker.
Born Oct. 22,1931

Larry Dering · Post by **Larry Dering** » 22 Oct 2022 1:05 pm

Indeed Happy Birthday to the king of chords.

Chris Brooks · Post by **Chris Brooks** » 22 Oct 2022 6:30 pm

What a player.

Joe Krumel · Post by **Joe Krumel** » 23 Oct 2022 3:22 am

Curly made my ears perk up for sure! Happy Bday to the Maestro!

Michael Weaver · Post by **Michael Weaver** » 23 Oct 2022 6:42 am

Johnny, I seem to have lost the link of your playing The Nearness of You and The Shadow of Your Smile, Chalkeresque....

Bruce Zumsteg · Post by **Bruce Zumsteg** » 24 Oct 2022 10:16 am

I was a huge Curly fan and was fortunate to hear him in small venues many times. Here are a few of my treasured pix that I took at those.

Larry Dering · Post by **Larry Dering** » 24 Oct 2022 5:09 pm

Great pictures Bruce, thanks for sharing.

Tommy White · Post by **Tommy White** » 1 Nov 2022 8:15 pm

Thank you for posting Johnny Cox. I’ll always remember Curly “Curls”. In my opinion, Curly was and still is the consummate C6th expert. Curly was and still is one of my all time favorites.

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 1 Nov 2022 10:26 pm

That's a nice Gretsch he's playing. And, is that one of those Sho-bud (?) Compactron amps behind him?

Roy Carroll · Post by **Roy Carroll** » 2 Nov 2022 4:51 am

Happy Birthday to Curly.
Was he a different personality? I have heard stories over the years. That may have been why he was so creative?
He was a killer C6 player.