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Leroy Maxey Drumm (September 26, 1936 – November 26, 2010) was born in Algonac, Michigan is an American and a bluegrass/country music songwriter who served in the United States Navy, in the 3rd Division as a sonar man aboard the USS Soley (DD-707), an ''Allen M. Sumner''-class destroyer and deployed to the Mediterranean from July 1956 to February 1957. Upon leaving the navy he worked as a general laborer and welder in and around Detroit, MI. He is widely known for his collaborations with his friend Stacy Richardson of the Hurricane Creek bluegrass band and another guy named Pete Gobel. Leroy wrote the song "Colleen Malone," recorded by Hot Rize on their ''Take It Home'', that won the IBMA’s Song of the Year award in 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= IBMA Awards )〕 ==Career== Leroy Drumm was a songwriter that some in the bluegrass world only knew by name in the shadows of others. Although he never could play any musical instrument or sing, his collaborations with co-writers Stacy Richardson, Cal Freeman and Pete Goble and others helped turn his poems of heartache, life and memories into songs of today and yesterday. Leroy penned such bluegrass favorites as "Halfway To Tulsa", "Getting Over You", "Slow Train", "God Sent An Angel," "Georgia Girl,' "Julianne," "You Can Keep Your Nine Pound Hammer," "Leavin' You and Mobile Too," "Blue Virginia Blues," "Natural Thing To Do," "Tennessee 1949," "Phone Call Away," "Many Hills of Time," "Poet With Wings," "She’s Walking Through My Memory," "Dixie in My Eye", "Circuit Rider", "Joe’s Last Train,""Woman Dressed In Scarlet," and many others.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= AllMusic.com )〕〔http://repertoire.bmi.com/writer.asp?page=1&blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&fromrow=1&torow=25&affiliation=BMI&cae=79431554&keyID=95736&keyname=DRUMM+LEROY&querytype=WriterID/〕〔http://repertoire.bmi.com/writer.asp?page=1&blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&fromrow=1&torow=25&affiliation=BMI&cae=12086522&keyID=131056&keyname=GOBLE+PETE&querytype=WriterID〕 Leroy's began writing early in his life but it was not until 1971 in became a reality and since then his songs have been recorded by such notable artists as the Bluegrass Cardinals, The Country Gentlemen, Doyle Lawson, Larry Sparks, Josh Williams, The Eddie Adcock Band, Joe Mullins, Special Consensus, IIIrd Tyme Out, Hot Rize,Audie Blaylock and Lost & Found, Bill Emerson, and many others. In 1974 Leroy had four songs recorded on the Country Gentlemen's album ''Remembrances & Forecasts'', "Willow Creek Dam", "Delta Queen" about the actual river boat the Delta Queen, "Billy McGee The Drummer Boy", and "Circuit Rider". In 1976 he was honored to have the Country Gentlemen use his song "Joe's Last Train" as the title track of their next album and the song "This Land Must Die" was on that same album. In 2006 ''The Complete Vanguard Recordings'' was released and the four tracks of Leroy's were used from ''Remembrances & Forecasts''. One of his last projects with Stacy Richardson was a favor for a World War II veteran named Private James W. Bozeman who went to church with Stacy. Leroy was asked to write a song about the Battle of the Bulge and the account from a combat medics point of view in the 94th Infantry Division. His lyrics composed with Stacy's melody was posted on the 94th Infantry Division's website as a tribute to American heroes who fought and died in World War II. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leroy Drumm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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