Briefly a member of the Coasters singing harmony on "Searchin'" and "Young Blood" and related to Blind Lemon Jefferson, Young (Obediah) Jessie and the Cadets (Lloyd McCraw, Willie Davis, Glendon Kingsby, Will Jones, Ted Taylor and Aaron Collins) recorded "Mary Lou" (Jessie - Ling) in 1955. A regional west coast hit this didn't chart nationally.

Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks (Levon Helm, Luke Paulman and Willard Jones) took "Mary Lou" to the top thirty in 1959.