Pozo-Seco Singers
American folk music band
The Pozo-Seco Singers was an American folk music group which had success during the 1960s. They recorded the hit "Time" and launched the music career of Don Williams.
History
Formation
In the early 1960s, Don Williams and Lofton Kline performed together in the Corpus Christi area as a duo called The Strangers Two. At the same time, Susan Taylor was a student at W.B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi who had performed with a group of musicians, the Corpus Christi Folk Music Society. She began a musical association with a student, Michael Merchant. In the fall of 1964, Merchant went to college, leaving Taylor behind to start her senior year of high school. Taylor met Williams and Kline when the two performed at a hootenanny at Del Mar College in the city. Learning that they had compatible musical tastes and harmonized well, they decided to form a trio. Inspired by an oil field term denoting a dead well (Taylor's then-boyfriend was a geologist), they called themselves the "Pozo-Seco Singers." During Christmas break in 1964, Merchant returned home and introduced the newly formed trio to a song he had recently written, called "Time." The group cut the track on a local record label, Edmark Records. Featuring wistful vocals by Taylor, the record became a regional hit in the San Antonio market and then across Texas.
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