Kid Thomas

Kid Thomas (born 20 June 1934 in Sturgis, Mississippi, died 5 April 1970 in Beverly Hills, California) was a blues and rock & roll singer and harmonica player. He moved to Chicago to work outside music in 1941, working in local clubs there in the 1940s-1950s. He first recorded for Federal in Chicago 1957, and after having passed through Wichita, Kansas, and Denver, Colorado, he relocated to Los Angeles in 1959, in which year he cut "Rockin’ this joint tonite" for T.R.C., a rock & roll song which became a minor hit. He continued to make a handful of singles for small labels in the 1960s. He was shot to death by the father of a young boy he had killed in a road accident.