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The incomparable Ernest Tubb ("E.T." to all who knew him) became a legend as much for what he was personally as for the half-century care...
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The incomparable Ernest Tubb ("E.T." to all who knew him) became a legend as much for what he was personally as for the half-century career that stretched from his first radio date in 1932 to his death in 1984. Though other singers with better voices and more raw musical talent have come and gone, none has inspired greater love from fans over six decades. Along with such performers as Jimmie Rodgers, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, and George Jones, Tubb is country music personified. He was among the first of the honky tonk singers and the first to achieve national recognition. His first recording was "The Passing of Jimmie Rodgers," a tribute to his hero. His long association with Decca began with "Blue Eyed Elaine" in 1940. Three years later his self-penned "Walkin' the Floor Over You," a country classic, was a hit, leading to the Opry, movie roles, and stardom. In 1947 he opened his Nashville record store and began the Midnight Jamboree, which followed the Opry on WSM and advertised the shop while showcasing stars and those on the rise. By that time, he had become one of the most recognizable musical stars in the world, bringing country music to the widest audience it had ever seen. Over the years, Tubb toured widely with his Texas Troubadors, pressing the flesh with fans after shows that featured his many hits, including "Slippin' Around," "Two Glasses Joe," "Tomorrow Never Comes," "Drivin' Nails in My Coffin," "Rainbow at Midnight," "Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello," and "Driftwood on the River." In 1975, after 35 years with Decca/MCA, he was let go, the allegiance of company executives not matching that of his multitude of fans. Because of a lung disease Tubb had to rest in pain on a cot between takes, ending his career just as his hero, Rodgers, had 50 years earlier. Quoting one of his album titles, Tubb left a legend and a legacy.
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MY POP SELECTION FOR TODAY. HAPPY LISTENING---------------
In 1944, Stafford left the Pied Pipers to go solo. Her tenure with the USO, in which she...
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MY POP SELECTION FOR TODAY. HAPPY LISTENING---------------
In 1944, Stafford left the Pied Pipers to go solo. Her tenure with the USO, in which she gave countless performances for soldiers stationed overseas, acquired her the nickname "G.I. Jo."
Beginning in 1944, she hosted the Tuesday and Thursday broadcasts of an NBC musical variety radio program — The Chesterfield Supper Club.
In 1948 Stafford and Gordon MacRae had a million-seller with their version of "Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart" and in 1949 repeated their success with "My Happiness".
In 1950, she left Capitol for Columbia Records, later returning to Capitol in 1961. While at Columbia she was the first recording artist to sell 25 million records for that company. During her second stint at Capitol, Stafford also recorded for Frank Sinatra's Reprise label. These albums were released between 1961 and 1964, and were mostly retrospective in nature. Stafford left the label when Sinatra sold it to Warner Brothers.
In the 1950s, she had a string of popular hits with Frankie Laine, six of which charted; their duet of Hank Williams' "Hey Good Lookin'" making the top ten in 1951. It was also at this time that Stafford scored her best known hits with huge records like "Jambalaya," "Shrimp Boats," "Make Love to Me," and "You Belong to Me". The last song was Stafford's all-time biggest hit, topping the charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom (the first song by a female singer to top the UK chart).
Stafford hosted the 15-minute The Jo Stafford Show on CBS-TV from 1954 to 1955 with Weston as her conductor and music arranger.
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Singles Year Single Chart Positions Album US Country US 1949 "Tennessee Border" 8 singles only "Country Junction" 14 "Smokey M...
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Singles Year Single Chart Positions Album US Country US 1949 "Tennessee Border" 8 singles only "Country Junction" 14 "Smokey Mountain Boogie" 8 "Blues Stay Away from Me" (w/ Merle Travis) "Mule Train" 1 9 1950 "The Cry of the Wild Goose" 2 15 "Feed'em in the Morning" "Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own" (w/ Kay Starr) 5 22 "I'll Never Be Free" (w/ Kay Starr) 2 3 "What This Country Needs" "Cincinnati Dancing Pig" (w/ The Starlighters) "Little Juan Pedro" 1951 "The Shot Gun Boogie" 1 14 "Tailor Made Woman" (w/ Joe "Fingers" Carr) 8 "Ocean of Tears" (w/ Kay Starr) "Mr. and Mississippi" 2 18 "The Strange Little Girl" 9 "Kissin' Bug Boogie" "Hey Good Lookin'" (w/ Helen O'Connell) "Rock City Boogie" (w/ The Dinning Sisters) 1952 "Hambone" "Everybody's Got Girl But Me" "Snowshoe Thompson" "Blackberry Boogie" 6 "False Hearted Girl" (w/ Ella Mae Morse) 1953 "I Don't Know" "Hey, Mr. Cotton Picker" 8 "Don't Start Courtin' in a Hot Rod Ford" (w/ Molly Bee) "Kiss Me Big" 1954 "Honeymoon's Over" (w/ Betty Hutton) "River of No Return" 9 "Ein Zwei Drei" "Somebody Bigger Than You or I" 1955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett" 4 5 "His Hands" 13 Spirituals "Sixteen Tons" 1 1 Ford Favorites 1956 "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" 78 "That's All" 12 17 "John Henry" This Lusty Land "Rock and Roll Boogie" single only "First Born" 46 Ford Favorites 1957 "Watermelon Song" "False Hearted Girl" This Lusty Land "In the Middle of an Island" 23 singles only "Ivy League" 23 1958 "Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart" singles only "Love Makes the World Go Round" "Glad Rags" 1959 "Black-Eyed Susie" "Sunny Side of Heaven" 1960 "O Mary Don't You Weep" Sing a Spiritual with Me "Little Klinker" singles only "Bless the Land" 1961 "Dark as a Dungeon" "Little Red Rockin' Hood" 1962 "Take Your Girlie to the Movies" Mississippi Showboat "Rags an Old Iron" single only "How Great Thou Art" I Love to Tell the Story 1965 "Hicktown" 9 single only "Now It's All Over" Bless Your Pickin' Heart 1966 "God Lives" God Lives 1967 "Lahaina Luna" Aloha "Hand-Me-Down Things" single only 1968 "Talk to the Animals" World of Pop and Country Hits 1969 "Honey-Eyed Girl (That's You That's You)" 54 New Wave 1970 "Rainy Night in Georgia" Everything Is Beautiful 1971 "Happy Songs of Love" 58 singles only 1972 "Pea-Pickin' Cock" 1973 "Printers Alley Stars" 66 Country Morning "Farther Down the River (Where the Fishin's Good)" 73 "Colorado Country Morning" 70 1974 "Sweet Child of Sunshine" "I've Got Confidence" Make a Joyful Noise 1975 "Come On Down" 52 "Baby" (w/ Andra Willis) 63 Country Morning "The Devil Ain't a Lonely Woman's Friend" 96 single only 1976 "I Been to Georgia On a Fast Train" 95 For the 83rd Time "Dogs and Sheriff John"
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Snow was born in Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada. When he was 14, he ordered his first guitar from Eaton's catalogue for $5.95, and pl...
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Snow was born in Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada. When he was 14, he ordered his first guitar from Eaton's catalogue for $5.95, and played his first show in a church basement in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia at the age of 16. He then travelled to the nearest big city, Halifax, where he sang in local clubs and bars. A successful appearance on a local radio station led to his being given a chance to audition for RCA Victor in Montreal, Quebec. In 1936, he signed with RCA Victor, staying with them for more than 45 years.
A weekly Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio show brought him national recognition and he began touring Canada until the late 1940s when American country music stations began playing his records. He headed to the "Country Music Capital of the World," Nashville, Tennessee, and Hank Snow, the "Singing Ranger" (modified from the nickname "Yodelling Ranger" given him before his high voice changed to the baritone that graced his hit records), would be invited to play at the Grand Ole Opry in 1950. That same year he released his mega-hit, "I'm Movin' On." The first of seven Number 1 hits on the country charts, "I'm Movin' On" stayed at Number 1 for nearly half a year. The song, which stayed in the number 1 position for 21 weeks, holds the all time record for most weeks in the number 1 spot. While performing in Renfro Valley, Snow was walking with a young unknown performer by the name of Hank Williams when someone yelled out, "Hey, Hank," at which Williams turned around and Snow tapped Williams on the shoulder and said, "No, Hank, he means me." Hank remained Hank's idol for the rest of his career.
Along with this hit, his other "signature song" was "I've Been Everywhere," in which he portrayed himself as a hitchhiker bragging about all the towns he'd been through. This song was originally written and performed in Australia by Geoff Mack, and its re-write incorporating North American place names was brilliantly accomplished. Rattling off a well-rhymed series of city names at an auctioneer's pace has long made the song a challenge for any country-music singer to attempt.
A regular at the Grand Ole Opry, in 1954 Hank Snow persuaded the directors to allow a new singer by the name of Elvis Presley to appear on stage. Snow used Elvis as his opening act, before introducing him to Colonel Tom Parker. In August 1955, Snow and Parker formed the management team Hank Snow Attractions. This partnership signed a management contract with Presley but before long, Snow was out and Parker had full control over the rock singer's career.
In 1958, Snow became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Performing in lavish and colourful sequin-studded suits, Snow had a career covering six decades during which he sold more than 80 million albums. Although he became a proud American citizen, he still maintained his friendships in Canada and remembered his roots with the 1968 Album, "My Nova Scotia Home". That same year he performed at campaign stops on behalf of presidential candidate George Wallace.
In Robert Altman's 1975 film Nashville, Henry Gibson played a self-obsessed country star loosely based on Hank Snow.
Despite his lack of schooling, Snow was a gifted songwriter and in 1978 was elected to Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In Canada, he was ten times voted that country's top country music performer. In 1979, Hank Snow was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Nova Scotia Music Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985.
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CARL SMITH BIOGRAPHY Known as Mr. Country, Carl Smith was one of the most popular honky tonkers of the '50s, racking up over 30 Top Ten hits over th...
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CARL SMITH BIOGRAPHY Known as Mr. Country, Carl Smith was one of the most popular honky tonkers of the '50s, racking up over 30 Top Ten hits over the course of the decade. Smith was also able to sustain that popularity into the late '70s, during which time he had a charting single for every year except one. Smith had a talent for singing smooth ballads which polished the rough edges of hardcore country. Nevertheless, he could sing pure honky tonk with the best of them, and his hardest country was made tougher by the addition of a drum kit. Smith was one of the very first country artists to regularly perform with a drummer, and though it earned him criticism at the time, the hard-driving sound of those up-tempo numbers proved to be influential. Smith also occasionally dabbled in Western swing, and as he continued to record, he delved deeper into the genre. Since he specialized in honky tonk ballads and Western swing, Smith rarely crossed over into the pop audience. Still, he was one of the most popular and best-known country singers of his era, recording several classics -- including "Let's Live a Little," "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way," "This Orchard Means Goodbye," "Cut Across Shorty," "Loose Talk," "(When You Feel Like You're in Love) Don't Just Stand There," and "Hey Joe!" -- appearing in a handful of movies, and hosting his own television show. By the time he retired in the early '80s, he had hit the country charts nearly 100 times.
Smith was born and raised in Maynardsville, TN, which was also the hometown of Roy Acuff. As a child, Smith idolized Acuff, Ernest Tubb, and Bill Monroe. When he was a teenager, he taught himself how to play guitar. According to legend, he bought his first guitar with money he earned by selling flower seeds. At the age of 15, he was singing in the San Francisco-based country band Kitty Dibble and Her Dude Ranch Ranglers. Two years later, he learned to play string bass and spent his summer vacation working at WROL, a radio station in Knoxville. After Smith finished high school, he briefly served in the U.S. Navy before heading back home.
Once he returned to Tennessee, he continued to perform at WROL, usually playing bass for Skeets Williamson and Molly O'Day. Eventually, he began singing as well, and one of his colleagues at the station sent an acetate of Smith's singing to WSM in Nashville. WSM signed Smith to a contract, and he began working for the station and singing at the Grand Ole Opry. By 1950, Columbia Records signed Smith to a recording contract. His first hit, "Let's Live a Little," arrived in 1951, climbing all the way to number two. Over the course of the year, he racked up no less than three other hits, including the classic "If Teardrops Were Pennies" and his first number one single, "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way." Also that year, he married June Carter, the daughter of Maybelle Carter; the two would later divorce, yet they had a daughter named Carlene that would become a musician in her own right during the '70s.
Throughout the '50s, Smith was a consistent presence in the country charts, racking up no less than 31 Top Ten singles during the course of the decade. In addition to recording, he began appearing in Western movies, like 1957's The Badge of Marshal Brennan. In 1956, he resigned from the Grand Ole Opry and joined a package tour organized by Phillip Morris. In 1957, he married country singer Goldie Hill, best-known for the number one hit "I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes."
As the '50s ended, Smith was no longer as dominant in the upper reaches of the country charts as he was earlier in the decade, but he never stopped having hits. During the '60s, he consistently charted in the Top 40, which was indicative of his status as a country music statesman. In 1961, he appeared on ABC's country television series, Four Star Jubilee, and a few years later, he began hosting Carl Smith's Country Music Hall for Canadian television; the series also was syndicated in America. Throughout the '60s and early '70s, he began to incorporate more Western swing into his repertoire, especially on his albums. Smith continued to release albums and singles on Columbia Records until 1975, when he signed with Hickory. After having a handful of minor hits for the label -- including several that were released on ABC/Hickory -- he decided to retire in the late '70s.
Though he recorded an album of his greatest hits in the early '80s, Smith retreated from the spotlight after his 1979 retirement. He and his wife, Goldie, lived on their horse farm outside of Franklin, TN, and the two began to show horses professionally during the course of the decade. Hill died in 2005. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide powered by
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da bin ich aber froh, sicher ist es dann ein technisches Poblem.
Vielen Dank für die Antwort und die tollen Songs
Heinrich :-))
hope your good.
could you upload SUNBONNET SUE i been looking high and low for that classic and can not find it anywhere..
all the best to you and yours .
prem
Darf ich erfahren warum ??
Magst du vielleicht keine Deutschen ??
viele Grüße aus Bayern
Heinrich