J.T. Sears & The Rowbux

J.T. Sears was the original lead singer for Cincinnati's The Legends who evolved into The Casinos. He left that group in the early 1960s and eventually hooked up with a working Cincy band, the Matadors. Together they billed themselves as J.T. Sears and the Rowbux. The Sears department store had been known as Sears Roebuck (they dropped the Roebuck name in the 1960s) so a phonetical change gave themselves a catchy moniker. In 1969 J.T. Sears was killed in a car accident on his way home from a gig. The Rowbux disbanded and many of the members went on to other bands.