ONE MAN'S DREAM:
To Preserve Early Rock History and Give
Recognition to Those Who Made it Happen


Bob Timmers, a part time musician in the late '50s and through the
60's, from Wisconsin, has pursued his dream to find the lesser known
originators of rock and roll music, document their history and
preserve their music.

In 1996 Bob visited Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and found
that the displays primarily featured artists from the '60s and '70s.
Being in high school when rock and roll started, he had a different
slant on how early rock and roll history should be presented.
Returning home, he shared his experience on a rockabilly music e-mail
discussion group, suggesting that someone should research and
publish the names of all the early rockers one could find, probably
on the Internet as it would be cost effective. Timmers wound up
being nominated and took on the task. The first and biggest step was
to obtain the most complete list of performers that could be found.
Discussion group member Joe Wajgel offered his massive data base of
over 5000 names and Bob was off and running

After several weeks of Internet coding, on March 21, 1997 Bob
initiated the Rockabilly Hall of Fame on the web
(www.rockabillyhall.com). At that time, it was just an alphabetical
listing of old rock and rollers with some of their songs.

Within weeks Bob started getting letters, e-mails and phone calls
with the same basic question: "Why is my father up there?", "Why is
my grandpa posted on your site?" and "How did I get listed on your
web site?". After Bob informed them about the data base and he
suggested that they submit a bio and some photos and he would do a
profile on them.

Over the next several years, hundreds of veteran performers submitted
their material. Not all were household names, but that's what Bob
wanted. Where else were they going to get proper recognition for
their part in the creation of rock and roll music?

Also added to the web site were volunteer feature writers, reviewers,
columnists, and contributors from around the world, thus making the
Rockabilly Hall of Fame "the" most popular on line source for the
roots of rock and roll history. Today, the RHOF has correspondents
in Canada, France, England and Italy. Many high school teachers and
college professors use the RHOF as learning tool, while the major
media often checks in for more information on a certain artist or
historical fact.

The Rockabilly Hall of Fame's efforts go beyond the Internet. For
several years in a row the RHOF has hosted stage shows in Wisconsin,
Las Vegas, Nashville, Memphis, etc. Many legendary and current
rockabilly artists have had the chance to perform in front of live
audiences.

One of the unforeseen benefits Bob derived from managing the RHOF was
to meet dozens of the artists he idolized as a teenager. Among
those he has befriended are Billy Haley's Comets, Gene Vincent's Blue
Caps, The Crickets, Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana, Billy Lee Riley,
Narvel Felts, Charlie Gracie, James Burton ...

The Rockabilly Hall of Fame has had an interesting effect on some of
the early rockers who were once sitting home in retirement. It has
placed them back into the limelight and encouraged them to record
and to perform again, thus making thousands of old and new fans happy.

In the first seven years of the Rockabilly Hall of Fames' existence
Bob has managed to obtain a large variety of new and old rockabilly
music tracks. This, in turn, has developed into a series of
compilations and solo albums released on the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
record label. CDs, T-shirts, hats, bumper stickers and other
merchandise is available to rockabilly fans everywhere.

Bob had the foresight to get the Rockabilly Hall of Fame name
registered and trademarked with the U.S. government, heading off any
potential name infringements that may confusing the general public.
This RHOF is the real deal with a capital ®!

After running the operation from his hometown in Appleton, Wisconsin
for three years Bob moved to Tennessee, where he currently resides.
This put him in better contact with the music's roots and original
performers. The office location he selected is a in small vintage
recording studio in Burns, TN. This studio, Burns Station Sound, is
one of the best unknown historical landmarks in the South. In Bob's
opinion this studio has a better sound than Sun and has recorded as
many or more musical legends in it's time. More information on the
studio can be found at www.rockabillyhall.com/studio.html.

When Bob moved to Tennessee he also found himself in the heartland of
country music, and because early rock and roll and traditional
country music have such close ties, it was inevitable that a sister
website needed to be created. Thus, The Traditional Country Hall of
Fame (www.countryhall.com) was born.

Obviously, the pioneers of rockabilly and country music cannot live
forever. There is an amazingly large number of younger musicians
"carrying the "torch". The RHOF proudly features these performers in
it's 2nd Generation listings.

Since it's conception Timmers desired to make this his mission in
life, but that was not without sacrifice as large amounts of time
and life savings were expended in the years that followed. His life
was changed forever as he became married to the music.

So, after exhausting nearly all of his resources to continue his
dream, the next logical step was to seek help by obtaining non-profit
501(c)(3) status so that outside contributions could be made as a tax
deductible donations. To accomplish this a separate corporation was
formed in 2004, Rockabilly Music Preservation Inc., in hopes that
federal, corporate and personal assistance can be found. Yes,
rockabilly needs your help to preserve one of America's timeless
music genres. For more information see the website:
www.preserverockabilly.org.

The basic goals of Rockabilly Music Preservation, Inc. are: (1) To do
a number of recording sessions with veteran/legendary performers, and
current rockabilly related artists, and (2) To host rockabilly
concerts using legendary performers and young talent that perform
early rock 'n' roll music. This will give elder performers a chance
to perform again and provide much needed exposure for the newer
talent ... all for the purpose of keeping rockabilly music alive.

This has become more than one man's dream and passion. It has become
an historical necessity ... to give recognition to "all" performers
who helped create rock and roll music.

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