Will Hammond was the impresario of the teen scene in Greenville in the ’60’s. He broke into it with his friend Ward Burton in the band The Uptowners. Their first record, If’n, came out on London records in 1964. The tune got some good radio play around the country. Hammond was the songwriter in the group, a vocation he has maintained through the years. The Uptowners recorded on the LeCam and Charay labels out of Ft. Worth, Texas. They also recorded simultaneously as the Snowmen. The Snowmen had another minor hit with another Hammond composition called Garbage Man. The record was re-released, covered, sold around the business to the highest bidder. It holds the distinction of being passed off from one notorious record hustler to another, in the persons of Major Bill Smith of Charay and LeCam to mob boss Morris Levy of Roulette. Between all the labels the song was released alternately under the titles Garbage Man, The Trashman, and My Girl Left Me. It got even more mileage for Hammond when it was covered by Muddy Waters.

Will Hammond was busy during these years. In 1965 he started releasing records on his Panther label. The label released records by the Bojax, Ward Burton, and by Hammond himself, including one as The Invisible Burgundy Bullfrog. 

Will Hammond left music for a while to work as a political analyst. He is in Nashville today writing songs again.