Biography
Wallace entered the world on 26 March 1917 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and departed it on 3 June 1978 in Huntsville, Alabama. He performed on KWKH’s The Louisiana Hayride and cut several sides during the late 1950s, most often backed by his group the Bama Drifters. Although those activities placed him in the public eye, his lasting reputation rests squarely on his songwriting. Among the compositions that bear his name are “Back Street Affair,” later cut by Webb Pierce and Kitty Wells, together with “You Got Some Explaining To Do,” “Dog Hauled Around,” and “I’m Gonna Turn You A’ Loose,” the final trio of which continues to surface regularly on compact-disc anthologies devoted to his output. Additional numbers that formed part of his working repertoire, a few of them also written by Wallace himself, encompass “That’s My Reward,” “What’ll I Do,” “Mean, Mistreatin’ Baby,” and “Burning The Wind.”