Loy clingman biography of martin

If there was a man …
who was burning both ends of the candle it was Loy Clingmam, who was recording, writing and performing his tunes on the weekend as he supported his family on a teacher's wage in the tiny town of Arlington, west of Phoenix.

He taught the sixth-grade for 27 years.
Born in Williams, Arizona, Clingman's family moved to Texas and New Mexico before returning to the Grande Canyon State for grade school in Ashfork, high school in Wickenburg and college in Tucson.

Loy clingman biography of martin

He began teaching and started to develop his writing focusing on the Western lifestyle that he knew so well. Soon Lee Hazelwood signed him to Viv and later he became the owner.
Clingman recorded "Rockin' Down Mexico Way" at his tiny garage studio in 1960 after the Indian School studio closed and he assumed the meager assets of Viv Records.
He would continue to write and produce there for the next 15 years, well into the early '70s.

Around this time Clingman and his wife