Long ago, Jim Profitt started singing with his mom and dad, Warren and Betty Profitt when he was just four years old. Soon they were singing at every revival and church function around their home town of Middletown, OH and beyond. Growing up in a singing family, Jim quickly learned to sing every part of a song and also learned to play just about every instrument he could get his hands on.

Jim stated, “I always described myself as having a high soprano voice reminiscent of Reba Rambo”. 

Jim joined his grade school choir when he was ten, and learned how to read music from his choir teacher, Mrs. Connaroe.  Before that, he learned how to read shaped notes from a teacher he knew only as Brother Sexton, who taught at the Stamps-Baxter School of Music.  Brother Sexton was very ancient, Jim recalls, but he remembered Brother Sexton had such a passion for music and children!  He would always start with a pitch pipe for the correct key.  Jim cherishes these wonderful memories.  He also states, “I had many music teachers and instructors along my path.  Charles Wyrick, Gary Davis, Mrs. Connaroe, Brenda Huffines, Pauline Wright, Xen Stevens, Greg Kemplin, Roger & Jerry Stamper, Junis Stevens, Jonny, Geri and Ronnie Meadows, my dad, Warren Profitt and Brenda Bruck, but the one teacher I looked up to the most was Steve Hook.  He taught me literally everything that my other teachers and instructors did not or could not teach”.

Jim not only can sing, but he also plays a wide variety of instruments.  When he was in the 5th grade, he started playing drums in his elementary school’s band.  From there, he learned how to play the trombone, F-trigger and valve trombone, and baritone.  Other instruments he learned to play was the tuba and sousaphone for his school’s marching band.  Jim learned the bass guitar when he was twelve, learned the acoustic guitar at thirteen, started piano lessons at fourteen, and became the pianist of his Jr. church at fifteen.  Joe Mullins (Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers) would accompany Jim on guitar during that time.