Soon the teenagers hit the road with the likes of Roy Orbison and Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, also touring with The Buckinghams. The band were picked up and signed by Atlantic Records. ![]() It was a song originally intended for fellow Memphis band The Box Tops, but the group discarded the tune before recording it Box Tops frontman Alex Chilton gave it to The Debuts instead. ![]() While students at Messick High School, the band had a hit with their first single, the Wayne Carson-penned "If I Cry" in 1968. It was to be Jamison's first taste of success, and he was only 12 years old at the time. Jimi began to playing in an R&B band called The Debuts. The first song Jimi ever performed in front of a crowd was "Daytripper" by The Beatles, while he was in middle school ( Sherwood) in the mid-1960s. ![]() In his teens, growing up in Blues-Rock and Soul music, he taught himself how to play the guitar and piano. Jimmy Wayne Jamison was born in rural Durant, Mississippi but self-identified as a Memphis, Tennessee native, as he and his mother Dorothy moved there when he was one day old.
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