Biography
Little Gary Ferguson remains a shadowy figure whose true identity is difficult to pin down today. During the mid-'60s he apparently represented an attempt to craft a Nashville counterpart to "Little" Stevie Wonder while foreshadowing the child-star phase that would later define Michael Jackson. Disc jockey William "Hoss" Allen took note of the seven-year-old and booked him repeatedly on the television soul program The !!!! Beat, where Ferguson sang and danced alongside Barbara Lynn and Freddie King. Independent evidence of his activity survives in a 1966 concert poster listing him on the bill at Los Angeles’s Shrine Exposition Hall in September, sharing the stage with Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, the Count Five, and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. After he turned eight, virtually no further musical trace of him is known to exist.