Country Music Hall of Fame member as one-half of The Louvin Brothers with Ira Louvin (1924-1965). Th

Country Music Hall of Fame members Charlie Louvin and Ferlin Husky are in our memorial. In addition to Louvin, the Opry cast lost Mel McDaniel, Billy Grammer and Wilma Lee Cooper. Louvin is also a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, which also lost Don Wayne. Other songwriting greats now gone include Harley Allen, Liz Anderson and Charlie Craig.
Former performer with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. As the wife of Chancellor Alexander Heard, she was Vanderbilt’s “first lady” and was instrumental in merging hotels on ocean drive south beach The Blair School of Music with the university in 1981. Mother of Blair violin professor Connie Heard. Mother-in-law of award-winning classical bassist Edgar Meyer, who is also a Blair faculty hotels on ocean drive south beach member.
Copy writer, producer and creative director for the Nashville ad agencies Carden Cherry and Buntin Advertising, as well as Music Row’s Film House. Also a drummer in the local rock bands 1969 and Trucking Blues, among others.
Pop star who was teamed with singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely for a series of highly successful duets, namely “Slipping Around” (1949), “Wedding Bells” (1949), “I’ll Never Slip Around Again” (1949), “Broken-Down Merry-Go-Round” (1950), “The Gods Were Angry With Me” (1950), “Let’s Go to Church Next Sunday Morning” (1950), “A Bushel and a Peck” (1950), “When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues” (1951) and “I Don’t Want to Be Free” (1951). “Slipping Around” made her the first woman to have a No. 1 hit on the country charts. Among the first pop stars to record hotels on ocean drive south beach the songs of Hank Williams. Also had a pop hit with Cindy Walker’s “Dime a Dozen” (1949). Original singer of the standard “Baby It’s Cold Outside” (a 1949 duet with her mentor, Johnny Mercer).
Country DJ and western-swing bandleader. Active at various stations in Oklahoma, then a fixture on he air in Amarillo, TX for many years. Following a stint at KFDI in Wichita, KS, he retired and returned to Amarillo in 2008. CMA DJ of the Year in 1967. Performed in Dugg Collins The West Texas Express for 34 years. (real name: Fred H. Collins).
Lead guitarist for The Charlie Daniels Band from 1975 to 1989. He played on more than 20 albums with the group and co-wrote over 60 songs with it, including the Grammy Award winning “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” One of the most influential musicians in Southern-rock music. Formerly in The Flat Creek Band and Buckeye.
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Member of Elvis Presley’s so-called “Memphis Mafia.” Presley’s transportation coordinator. Road manager for Brenda Lee in 1961-62. Ran the Nashville operation for Hill Range Publishing in 1963-1972. Presley’s lighting director in Las Vegas in the 1970s. Later an assistant to Nashville producer and label executive Jimmy Bowen, notably at Capitol Records in 1989-1995. Co-author of Elvis and the Memphis Mafia (2005). Appeared in the documentaries The Elvis Mob (2004) and All the King’s Men (1997).
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Country Music Hall of Fame member as one-half of The Louvin Brothers with Ira Louvin (1924-1965). The team was noted for such 1950s hits as “When I Stop Dreaming,” “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby,” “You’re Running Wild,” “Cash on the Barrel Head,” “My Baby’s Gone.” “Hoping That You’re Hoping” and “Knoxville Girl,” many of which he co-wrote. After the duo’s 1963 breakup and brother Ira’s 1965 death, Charlie continued as a solo artist and Grand Ole Opry member. hotels on ocean drive south beach His solo hits included “See the Big Man Cry” (1965), “I Don’t Love You Anymore” (1964), “Hey Daddy” (1968) and “Think I’ll Go Somewhere and Cry Myself to Sleep” (1965). He also had hit duets with Melba Montgomery, including “Something to Brag About” (1970) and “Did You Ever” (1971). An all-star tribute album to the music of the Louvin Brothers earned two 2004 Grammy Awards, and Charlie Louvin enjoyed a revival in the Americana field in 2007, as well as his own Grammy nominations. (real name: Charlie Elzer Loudermilk).
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Dutch country music journalist who wrote for Country Gazette for decades. A familiar face at Fan Fair and during CMA awards presentations, she was a tireless international flag waver for country music. Honored by the CMA in 2005 with its Wesley Rose International Media Achievement hotels on ocean drive south beach Award.
WAMB radio show host, pop singer, magazine publisher, record producer and music promoter. He had a 1952 pop hit with “Carolina in the Morning” and reportedly co-produced 1961’s No. 1 hit “Blue Moon” by The Marcels. Performed in Nashville in the pop trio Moonlight Memories with vocalists Lisa Webb and Carole Shaw, the latter of whom is the mother of singer-songwriter-producer Victoria Shaw.
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