Lorrie Collins, Dynamic Rockabilly Queen

Lawrencine May “Lorrie“ Collins (May 7, 1942 – August 4, 2018) To anyone watching television in Southern California in the late 1950s and early 1960s, sibling duo Lorrie and Larry Collins, better known as the Collins Kids, were inescapable. Every local TV music show out of L.A., they were on pretty consistently, said Chris Hillman, If you think about it, nobody from the West Coast ignited Nashville, but the Collins Kids were as good or better than anything that came out of the southeast. Lorrie Collins died on Aug. 4 at 76 in Reno, where she had been living in recent years. Her brother revealed the news via Facebook, saying her death was the result of complications from a fall. Initially regarded as something of a novelty act because of their youth — Lorrie was 12 and Larry 10 when they started performing professionally as a duo in 1954 — the Collins Kids soon became one of the best-kept secrets in rockabilly music, the early hybrid of country — often referred to as “hil