Jimmy Murphy

Person · Open Library

Born

1962

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1925

Active to

1981

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

4,973

Total plays

20,878

Jimmy Murphy is one of the more enigmatic figures to come out of the country/rockabilly scene of the early to mid-'50s. A virtuoso guitar player and a gifted and inspired songwriter, he had a knack for composing and performing quirky, clever songs that hooked into unusual thematic angles -- his first song, "Electricity," equated rural electrification with religious salvation, while the closest he ever got to a real hit, "Sixteen Tons Rock n' Roll," was a satire of the 1956 Tennessee Ernie Ford h

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs

   · 2018 · cited 18,240x

2. A modified single solution method for the determination of phosphate in natural waters

   · 1962 · cited 16,567x

3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,688x

4. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,201x

5. <i>Planck</i>2015 results

   · 2016 · cited 9,861x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jimmy

Family name

Murphy

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Birmingham

Occupation

songwriter

Genre

country music

Instrument

voice

Record label

RCA Victor

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