Jim Harry Spencer
Reading from the top down, Frank Sinatra, Curt Jurgens and Yul Brynner might be models for those hair-restorer advertisements which say: 'Going...going...gone!' Yet all three have such obvious fascination for the prettiest girls it makes one think....
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
This business of becoming a legend in your own lifetime. It can be done by money, and has; a few rich names qualify as what is known in the trade as household words: Rockefeller, Gulbenkian, Croesus. The name of Jim Harry Spencer rings no such bells, and that is the great thing about him.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
ALL THE TIME
Your musical influences
John Hartford, Fred Neil, Doc Watson.
What equipment do you use?
whatever's at hand
Anything else?
On the 26th May, 1908, an Englishman sat on a rock in the middle of the Persian desert. Arnold Wilson was sitting on the largest oil-field in the world; he had just found it, at four o'clock that morning.
