* Webb Michael Pierce (8 de agosto de 1921 - 24 de febrero de 1991) fue uno de los cantantes estadounidenses de honky tonk más populares en la década de los anos 1950, poniendo en listas un mayor número de canciones que cualquier otro artista country de esa década.
Su mayor éxito fue "In the jailhouse now" que estuvo 37 semanas en la cartelera, 21 de ellas como número 1. Pierce también tuvo como número uno durante varias semanas canciones como "Slowly" (1954), "Love, Love, Love" (1955), "I Don't Care" (1955), "There Stands The Glass" (1953), "More And More" (1954), "I Ain't Never" (1959) y su primer número uno "Wondering," que lo fue durante 4 de las 27 semanas que permaneció en las listas
Para muchos, Pierce, con su flamante estilo fue la cara más reconocible de la música country del momento y sus excesos.1 Fue miembro del Grand Ole Opry y a título póstumo del Country Music Hall of Fame.
* David Rogers (David Pierce Rogers), American country singer and trumpeter, born March 27, 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia and died August 10, 1993.
* Sonny James (James Hugh Loden, May 1, 1928, Hackleburg, Alabama, United States – February 22, 2016, Nashville, Tennessee, United States) was an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 hit, "Young Love". Dubbed the "Southern Gentleman" for his congenial manner, his greatest success came from ballads about the trials of love. James had 72 country and pop charted releases from 1953 to 1983, including an unprecedented five-year streak of 16 straight Billboard #1 singles among his 26 #1 hits. Twenty-one of his albums reached the country top ten from 1964 to 1976. His biggest hit, “Young Love,” topped the country charts in 1957. During the 1960s and 1970s, James, who was nicknamed the Southern Gentleman, scored 26 No. 1 hits, including 16 consecutive chart toppers. He spent 57 weeks at the top of the charts between 1960 and 1979. “Need You,” “Here Comes Honey Again,” “It’s Just a Matter of Time,” “Empty Arms” and “Since I Met You Baby” were among his most memorable songs.
James joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1965, the year he scored his second No. 1 single, “You’re the Only World I Know,” and hosted the first-ever CMA Awards two years later. James was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1961 and co-hosted the first Country Music Association Awards Show in 1967. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
* Jimmy Martin (10 de agosto de 1927, Sneedville, Tennessee - 14 de mayo de 2005, Nashville, Tennessee, USA) fue un músico estadounidense de bluegrass conocido como King of Bluegrass, el rey de la música bluegrass.Nombre real -James H. Martin.
* Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States – December 31, 1997, Madison, Tennessee) was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville sound". He was known for his "slip note" piano style, where an out-of-key note slides into the correct note.
* Don Wesley Reno (February 21, 1926 – October 16, 1984) was an American bluegrass and country musician best known as a banjo player in partnership with Red Smiley, and later with guitarist Bill Harrell.
* Doc Watson (Deep Gap,condado de Watauga,estado de Carolina del Norte, Estados Unidos, - 3 de marzo de 1923 - Winston-Salem, estado de Carolina del Norte, Estados Unidos,29 de mayo de 2012) fue un guitarrista, cantante y compositor de música popular estadounidense. A lo largo de su vida profesional fue galardonado con siete premios Grammy además de un Grammy honorífico a toda su carrera artística en 2004 y de la Medalla Nacional de las Artes. Durante el revival folk que se produjo en los anos 60, Watson fue una de las figuras más reconocidas, convirtiéndose en una referencia con su estilo de tocar la guitarra acústica, especialmente por el llamado flatpicking (con púa), aunque también destacó en el fingerpicking (con los dedos).
* Red Allen -Harley Allen (February 12, 1930 – April 3, 1993), better known as Red Allen, was an American bluegrass singer and guitarist known for his powerful tenor voice.
* Thomas Paul 'Tompall' Glaser (3 de septiembre de 1933, Spalding, Nebraska, U.S. - 13 de agosto de 2013, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) fue un artista de música country estadounidense. Nació en Spalding, Nebraska en 1933. Activo en el mundo de la múscia desde 1950, grabó como solista y con sus hermanos Chuck y Jim en el trío Tompall & the Glaser Brothers. El single en solitario de Tompall Glaser con la más alta recepción, fue "Put Another Log on the Fire" de Shel Silverstein, que alcanzó el puesto N o 21 en la lista de Billboard Hot Country Singles (ahora Hot Country Songs) en 1975 y apareció con Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings y Jessi Colter en el álbum Wanted! The Outlaws. Los hermanos Glaser también tuvieron cantantes de respaldo como Marty Robbins, en la década de 1950. Glaser murió el 13 de agosto de 2013 en Nashville, Tennessee, después de una larga enfermedad.
* Roy Frank Drusky, Jr. (June 22, 1930 , Atlanta, Georgia, United States – September 23, 2004, Portland, Tennessee, United States) was an American country music singer, songwriter, producer, actor and disc jockey popular from the 1960s through the early 1970s. Known for his baritone voice, he was known for incorporating the Nashville sound and for being the first artist to record a song written by Kris Kristofferson ("Jody and the Kid"). His highest-charting single was the No. 1 "Yes Mr. Peters", a duet with Priscilla Mitchell.
Drusky’s biggest hits include “Another” (1960), “Three Hearts in a Tangle” (1961) and “Second Hand Rose (1962). His sole No. 1 single came in 1965 with “Yes, Mr. Peters,” a duet with Priscilla Mitchell, a singer who later married Jerry Reed.
Born Roy Frank Drusky Jr., on June 22, 1930, in Atlanta, he began his music endeavors at a relatively late age after buying his first guitar while serving in the Navy. Once claiming that he “ate, slept and breathed baseball,” Drusky formed his first band after an unsuccessful tryout for the Cleveland Indians. He also enrolled in Atlanta’s Emory University to begin studies in veterinary medicine. Making extra money performing in his band, the Southern Ranch Boys, Drusky was offered his own show on radio station WEAS in Decatur, Ga.
During the ’50s, Drusky recorded for the Starday and Columbia record labels, but none of his early singles made it to the charts. Moving to Minneapolis to work as a disc jockey on radio station KEVE, Drusky continued writing songs and gained attention in the music industry when he wrote “Alone With You,” Faron Young’s single that spent 13-weeks at No. 1 in 1958. Drusky also wrote Young’s “Country Girl,” a single that topped the chart for four weeks in 1959.
Decca Records executive Owen Bradley signed him to the label in 1958. At Decca, Drusky co-wrote his first two hits — “Another” and “Anymore” — both released in 1960. Drusky had moved to Mercury Records by the time he recorded “Yes, Mr. Peters,” a duet that stayed at No. 1 for two weeks. Drusky continued to record for Mercury through the early ’70s, releasing the Top 10 hits “Long Long Texas Road” and “All My Hard Times.” He later charted singles on the Capitol and Scorpion labels.
Drusky appeared in three country music movies — White Lightning Express, Forty Acre Feud and Golden Guitar. He also produced other artists and was instrumental in establishing SESAC, helping establish the performance rights organization’s Nashville office. A Grand Ole Opry member since 1958, Drusky’s most recent music endeavors include five gospel albums on the Chapel/Bridge label.
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SONG OF SONGS
Recorded by Boxcar Willie w/Willie Nelson
Written by Vern Stovall, Bill Palmer & Lloene Martin
1986
How I love that old melody they're playing
I heard it in so many different songs
It made stars out of country music singers
And somehow it just keeps playin' on.
Oh I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
Seems to me it's been around since time began
It was there with our soldiers during wartime
And right today, we still hear it, now and then.
Roy Acuff was young country singer
His records were just starting to be heard
That old tune took him right up to stardom
On The Wings Of The Great Speckled Bird.
Hank Thompson is a country music legend
He sang western swing and songs of peace and strife
That same tune gave old Hank the break he needed
On a record called The Wild Side Of Life.
A young girl made the world stop and listen
Kitty Wells was that young singer's name
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
That melody rang clear as country rain.
Oh those notes must come straight out of heaven
In so many different songs they were the same
I know someday they'll be etched in gold forever
And placed in the Country Music Hall Of Fame.
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THERE'S A GRAND OLE OPRY SHOW PLAYING SOMEWHERE
Recorded by Red Johnson
Words and music by Bud Auge and Red Johnson
1963
There's a Grand Ole Opry Show playing somewhere
In a distant land so many miles away
Only country music's greatest get to go there
Where I wish that I could also go someday.
I'd see Williams, Horton, Patsy Cline and Copas
Hawkshaw Hawkins and Jack Anglin, too
There's a Grand Ole Opry Show playing somewhere
In a distant land so far beyond the blue.
As the Velvet curtains open in the twilight
Choirs of Angels sings the sweetest harmony
As the show goes on in Hillbilly Heaven
What a beautiful sight it must be.
Jimmie Rodgers is the M.C. of the evening
One by one he calls each artist from the wings
To perform and do the songs they've made so famous
As the melodies are played on golden strings.
There's a Grand Ole Opry Show playing somewhere
On a starlit stage so many miles away
Only country music's greatest get to go there
Where I wish that I could also go someday.
**********************************
* Wilf Carter (Wilfred Arthur Charles Carter, 18 de diciembre de 1904, Port Hilford, Nova Scotia, Canada - 5 de diciembre de 1996, Scottsdale, Arizona,USA), también conocido como Montana Slim, fue un cantante, yodeler y compositor canadiense de música country conocido como el padre de la música country canadiense, por ser el primero e inspirar a una multitud de cantantes canadienses a seguir sus pasos.
* George Glenn Jones (12 de septiembre de 1931 - 26 de abril de 2013) fue un cantante country estadounidense conocido por su larga lista de éxitos, distintiva voz y fraseos y su matrimonio con Tammy Wynette.
En los últimos 20 anos fue conocido como "the greatest living country singer".1 El estudioso del country Bill C. Malone escribe: "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved."
A través de su larga trayectoria, Jones creó multitud de titulares tanto por su afición a la bebida, como sus tormentosas relaciones con mujeres y las violentas peleas como por su prolífica grabación de discos y carrera de giras. Su modo de vida, salvaje, le llevó a perder muchas actuaciones ganándose a pulso el sobrenombre de "No Show Jones". Con la ayuda de su cuarta esposa, Nancy, consiguió mantenerse apartado de la bebida durante varios anos. Consiguió más de 150 hits tanto solo como en duetos con otros artistas. La línea de su nariz y los gestos y marcas faciales le valieron también el sobrenombre de "The Possum" ("La Zarigüeya"). Jones solía decir en sus entrevistas que había elegido hacer "tan sólo" 60 conciertos al ano.
* Harry Roy (Harry Lipman, 12 January 1900, Stamford Hill, London, England – 1 February 1971, London, England) was a British dance band leader and clarinet player from the 1920s to the 1960s. He performed several songs with suggestive lyrics including "My Girl's Pussy" (1931),[1] and "She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor" (1939).
* Rev. Pearly Brown - Quite possible the last of the great blues street singers, Rev. Pearly Brown was born August 18, 1915, in Abbeville, GA, USA. Blind from birth, he grew up in Americus, GA, where he reportedly learned to play guitar at the age of seven. As a young man he began to busk on the streets in Americus, eventually moving on to Macon, where he was a fixture on the streets for several decades. His repertoire drew heavily on Blind Willie Johnson, whose slide style he made his own. Like Johnson, he played a kind of blues gospel, singing spirituals and what Brown called "slave songs," along with country songs like "Great Speckled Bird" that had a strong spiritual content. He tasted a good deal of success in the 1960s, frequently playing large jazz and blues festivals, even opening for touring rock bands, and he was the first black performer to play on The Grand Old Opry. Rumor has it that he mentored both Duane Allman and Dickey Betts on the slide guitar. A solid singer and an often brilliant guitar player, Brown's discography is small but of high quality. Henry Oster recorded him in Macon in 1961 for the album Georgia Street Singer, which was released on Oster's Folk-Lyric label. In 1973 Bill Nowlin recorded It's a Mean Old World to Try to Live In for Rounder Records. A documentary on Brown called Mean Old World was filmed by John English in 1975, and eventually was combined with a film about bluesman Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup entitled Born in the Blues and released on video in 1997. Rev. Brown continued to sing on the streets of Macon until 1979, when poor health forced him to retire. He died in 1986 in Plains, GA, USA .
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songs
**Title ** Artist **Year
Great Speckled Bird *DAVID ROGERS *1973
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1968) * Doc Watson * 1968
The Great Speckled Bird (1967) *Don Reno & Bill Harrell *1967
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels * Donna Darlene & Shot Jackson *1967
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1976) * Floyd Cramer & Pat Daisy *1976
The Great Speckled Bird (1970) * George Jones
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1943) *Harry Roy & His Band
The Great Speckled Bird (live) *Herbert Trip and Band
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes * Jean Shepard *The Melody Ranch Girl (Disc 2) . 1956
The Wild Side Of Life *Jerry Mac
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1964) * Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys *1964
The Prisoner's Song * Mac Wiseman
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes *Porter Wagoner
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1966) * Red Allen & The Kentuckians
The Great Speckled Bird (1961) *Rev. Pearly Brown * 1961
Great Speckled Bird *Roy Drusky *1965
The Great Speckled Bird (1976) *Sonny James
The Prisoner's Song (1976) *Sonny James
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1964) * The Andrews Sisters
Wild Side Of Life-Honky Tonk Angels (1985) * The Knitters
The Wild Side Of Life (live) (1993) * The Third Rail Band
The Wild Side Of Life (1964) *Tommy Quickly & The Remo Four
The Great Speckled Bird *Tompall Glaser
Heavenly Houseboat Blues (otra version) *Townes Van Zandt
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels *Vicki Searle
The Great Speckled Bird (1966) *Wanda Jackson
Prisoner's Song (1958) *Warren Storm
The Great Speckled Bird *Webb Pierce -Saturday Night .1968
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1958) *Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) *1958
Prisoner's Song (1943) *Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) *1943
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also,
Ernest Helton - Prisoner's Song (1925)
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* ERNEST HELTON
*Wanda Jackson
Su mayor éxito fue "In the jailhouse now" que estuvo 37 semanas en la cartelera, 21 de ellas como número 1. Pierce también tuvo como número uno durante varias semanas canciones como "Slowly" (1954), "Love, Love, Love" (1955), "I Don't Care" (1955), "There Stands The Glass" (1953), "More And More" (1954), "I Ain't Never" (1959) y su primer número uno "Wondering," que lo fue durante 4 de las 27 semanas que permaneció en las listas
Para muchos, Pierce, con su flamante estilo fue la cara más reconocible de la música country del momento y sus excesos.1 Fue miembro del Grand Ole Opry y a título póstumo del Country Music Hall of Fame.
* David Rogers (David Pierce Rogers), American country singer and trumpeter, born March 27, 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia and died August 10, 1993.
* Sonny James (James Hugh Loden, May 1, 1928, Hackleburg, Alabama, United States – February 22, 2016, Nashville, Tennessee, United States) was an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 hit, "Young Love". Dubbed the "Southern Gentleman" for his congenial manner, his greatest success came from ballads about the trials of love. James had 72 country and pop charted releases from 1953 to 1983, including an unprecedented five-year streak of 16 straight Billboard #1 singles among his 26 #1 hits. Twenty-one of his albums reached the country top ten from 1964 to 1976. His biggest hit, “Young Love,” topped the country charts in 1957. During the 1960s and 1970s, James, who was nicknamed the Southern Gentleman, scored 26 No. 1 hits, including 16 consecutive chart toppers. He spent 57 weeks at the top of the charts between 1960 and 1979. “Need You,” “Here Comes Honey Again,” “It’s Just a Matter of Time,” “Empty Arms” and “Since I Met You Baby” were among his most memorable songs.
James joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1965, the year he scored his second No. 1 single, “You’re the Only World I Know,” and hosted the first-ever CMA Awards two years later. James was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1961 and co-hosted the first Country Music Association Awards Show in 1967. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
* Jimmy Martin (10 de agosto de 1927, Sneedville, Tennessee - 14 de mayo de 2005, Nashville, Tennessee, USA) fue un músico estadounidense de bluegrass conocido como King of Bluegrass, el rey de la música bluegrass.Nombre real -James H. Martin.
* Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States – December 31, 1997, Madison, Tennessee) was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville sound". He was known for his "slip note" piano style, where an out-of-key note slides into the correct note.
* Don Wesley Reno (February 21, 1926 – October 16, 1984) was an American bluegrass and country musician best known as a banjo player in partnership with Red Smiley, and later with guitarist Bill Harrell.
* Doc Watson (Deep Gap,condado de Watauga,estado de Carolina del Norte, Estados Unidos, - 3 de marzo de 1923 - Winston-Salem, estado de Carolina del Norte, Estados Unidos,29 de mayo de 2012) fue un guitarrista, cantante y compositor de música popular estadounidense. A lo largo de su vida profesional fue galardonado con siete premios Grammy además de un Grammy honorífico a toda su carrera artística en 2004 y de la Medalla Nacional de las Artes. Durante el revival folk que se produjo en los anos 60, Watson fue una de las figuras más reconocidas, convirtiéndose en una referencia con su estilo de tocar la guitarra acústica, especialmente por el llamado flatpicking (con púa), aunque también destacó en el fingerpicking (con los dedos).
* Red Allen -Harley Allen (February 12, 1930 – April 3, 1993), better known as Red Allen, was an American bluegrass singer and guitarist known for his powerful tenor voice.
* Thomas Paul 'Tompall' Glaser (3 de septiembre de 1933, Spalding, Nebraska, U.S. - 13 de agosto de 2013, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) fue un artista de música country estadounidense. Nació en Spalding, Nebraska en 1933. Activo en el mundo de la múscia desde 1950, grabó como solista y con sus hermanos Chuck y Jim en el trío Tompall & the Glaser Brothers. El single en solitario de Tompall Glaser con la más alta recepción, fue "Put Another Log on the Fire" de Shel Silverstein, que alcanzó el puesto N o 21 en la lista de Billboard Hot Country Singles (ahora Hot Country Songs) en 1975 y apareció con Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings y Jessi Colter en el álbum Wanted! The Outlaws. Los hermanos Glaser también tuvieron cantantes de respaldo como Marty Robbins, en la década de 1950. Glaser murió el 13 de agosto de 2013 en Nashville, Tennessee, después de una larga enfermedad.
* Roy Frank Drusky, Jr. (June 22, 1930 , Atlanta, Georgia, United States – September 23, 2004, Portland, Tennessee, United States) was an American country music singer, songwriter, producer, actor and disc jockey popular from the 1960s through the early 1970s. Known for his baritone voice, he was known for incorporating the Nashville sound and for being the first artist to record a song written by Kris Kristofferson ("Jody and the Kid"). His highest-charting single was the No. 1 "Yes Mr. Peters", a duet with Priscilla Mitchell.
Drusky’s biggest hits include “Another” (1960), “Three Hearts in a Tangle” (1961) and “Second Hand Rose (1962). His sole No. 1 single came in 1965 with “Yes, Mr. Peters,” a duet with Priscilla Mitchell, a singer who later married Jerry Reed.
Born Roy Frank Drusky Jr., on June 22, 1930, in Atlanta, he began his music endeavors at a relatively late age after buying his first guitar while serving in the Navy. Once claiming that he “ate, slept and breathed baseball,” Drusky formed his first band after an unsuccessful tryout for the Cleveland Indians. He also enrolled in Atlanta’s Emory University to begin studies in veterinary medicine. Making extra money performing in his band, the Southern Ranch Boys, Drusky was offered his own show on radio station WEAS in Decatur, Ga.
During the ’50s, Drusky recorded for the Starday and Columbia record labels, but none of his early singles made it to the charts. Moving to Minneapolis to work as a disc jockey on radio station KEVE, Drusky continued writing songs and gained attention in the music industry when he wrote “Alone With You,” Faron Young’s single that spent 13-weeks at No. 1 in 1958. Drusky also wrote Young’s “Country Girl,” a single that topped the chart for four weeks in 1959.
Decca Records executive Owen Bradley signed him to the label in 1958. At Decca, Drusky co-wrote his first two hits — “Another” and “Anymore” — both released in 1960. Drusky had moved to Mercury Records by the time he recorded “Yes, Mr. Peters,” a duet that stayed at No. 1 for two weeks. Drusky continued to record for Mercury through the early ’70s, releasing the Top 10 hits “Long Long Texas Road” and “All My Hard Times.” He later charted singles on the Capitol and Scorpion labels.
Drusky appeared in three country music movies — White Lightning Express, Forty Acre Feud and Golden Guitar. He also produced other artists and was instrumental in establishing SESAC, helping establish the performance rights organization’s Nashville office. A Grand Ole Opry member since 1958, Drusky’s most recent music endeavors include five gospel albums on the Chapel/Bridge label.
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SONG OF SONGS
Recorded by Boxcar Willie w/Willie Nelson
Written by Vern Stovall, Bill Palmer & Lloene Martin
1986
How I love that old melody they're playing
I heard it in so many different songs
It made stars out of country music singers
And somehow it just keeps playin' on.
Oh I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
Seems to me it's been around since time began
It was there with our soldiers during wartime
And right today, we still hear it, now and then.
Roy Acuff was young country singer
His records were just starting to be heard
That old tune took him right up to stardom
On The Wings Of The Great Speckled Bird.
Hank Thompson is a country music legend
He sang western swing and songs of peace and strife
That same tune gave old Hank the break he needed
On a record called The Wild Side Of Life.
A young girl made the world stop and listen
Kitty Wells was that young singer's name
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
That melody rang clear as country rain.
Oh those notes must come straight out of heaven
In so many different songs they were the same
I know someday they'll be etched in gold forever
And placed in the Country Music Hall Of Fame.
*************************************************
---------------------------
THERE'S A GRAND OLE OPRY SHOW PLAYING SOMEWHERE
Recorded by Red Johnson
Words and music by Bud Auge and Red Johnson
1963
There's a Grand Ole Opry Show playing somewhere
In a distant land so many miles away
Only country music's greatest get to go there
Where I wish that I could also go someday.
I'd see Williams, Horton, Patsy Cline and Copas
Hawkshaw Hawkins and Jack Anglin, too
There's a Grand Ole Opry Show playing somewhere
In a distant land so far beyond the blue.
As the Velvet curtains open in the twilight
Choirs of Angels sings the sweetest harmony
As the show goes on in Hillbilly Heaven
What a beautiful sight it must be.
Jimmie Rodgers is the M.C. of the evening
One by one he calls each artist from the wings
To perform and do the songs they've made so famous
As the melodies are played on golden strings.
There's a Grand Ole Opry Show playing somewhere
On a starlit stage so many miles away
Only country music's greatest get to go there
Where I wish that I could also go someday.
**********************************
* Wilf Carter (Wilfred Arthur Charles Carter, 18 de diciembre de 1904, Port Hilford, Nova Scotia, Canada - 5 de diciembre de 1996, Scottsdale, Arizona,USA), también conocido como Montana Slim, fue un cantante, yodeler y compositor canadiense de música country conocido como el padre de la música country canadiense, por ser el primero e inspirar a una multitud de cantantes canadienses a seguir sus pasos.
* George Glenn Jones (12 de septiembre de 1931 - 26 de abril de 2013) fue un cantante country estadounidense conocido por su larga lista de éxitos, distintiva voz y fraseos y su matrimonio con Tammy Wynette.
En los últimos 20 anos fue conocido como "the greatest living country singer".1 El estudioso del country Bill C. Malone escribe: "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved."
A través de su larga trayectoria, Jones creó multitud de titulares tanto por su afición a la bebida, como sus tormentosas relaciones con mujeres y las violentas peleas como por su prolífica grabación de discos y carrera de giras. Su modo de vida, salvaje, le llevó a perder muchas actuaciones ganándose a pulso el sobrenombre de "No Show Jones". Con la ayuda de su cuarta esposa, Nancy, consiguió mantenerse apartado de la bebida durante varios anos. Consiguió más de 150 hits tanto solo como en duetos con otros artistas. La línea de su nariz y los gestos y marcas faciales le valieron también el sobrenombre de "The Possum" ("La Zarigüeya"). Jones solía decir en sus entrevistas que había elegido hacer "tan sólo" 60 conciertos al ano.
* Harry Roy (Harry Lipman, 12 January 1900, Stamford Hill, London, England – 1 February 1971, London, England) was a British dance band leader and clarinet player from the 1920s to the 1960s. He performed several songs with suggestive lyrics including "My Girl's Pussy" (1931),[1] and "She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor" (1939).
* Rev. Pearly Brown - Quite possible the last of the great blues street singers, Rev. Pearly Brown was born August 18, 1915, in Abbeville, GA, USA. Blind from birth, he grew up in Americus, GA, where he reportedly learned to play guitar at the age of seven. As a young man he began to busk on the streets in Americus, eventually moving on to Macon, where he was a fixture on the streets for several decades. His repertoire drew heavily on Blind Willie Johnson, whose slide style he made his own. Like Johnson, he played a kind of blues gospel, singing spirituals and what Brown called "slave songs," along with country songs like "Great Speckled Bird" that had a strong spiritual content. He tasted a good deal of success in the 1960s, frequently playing large jazz and blues festivals, even opening for touring rock bands, and he was the first black performer to play on The Grand Old Opry. Rumor has it that he mentored both Duane Allman and Dickey Betts on the slide guitar. A solid singer and an often brilliant guitar player, Brown's discography is small but of high quality. Henry Oster recorded him in Macon in 1961 for the album Georgia Street Singer, which was released on Oster's Folk-Lyric label. In 1973 Bill Nowlin recorded It's a Mean Old World to Try to Live In for Rounder Records. A documentary on Brown called Mean Old World was filmed by John English in 1975, and eventually was combined with a film about bluesman Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup entitled Born in the Blues and released on video in 1997. Rev. Brown continued to sing on the streets of Macon until 1979, when poor health forced him to retire. He died in 1986 in Plains, GA, USA .
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songs
**Title ** Artist **Year
Great Speckled Bird *DAVID ROGERS *1973
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1968) * Doc Watson * 1968
The Great Speckled Bird (1967) *Don Reno & Bill Harrell *1967
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels * Donna Darlene & Shot Jackson *1967
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1976) * Floyd Cramer & Pat Daisy *1976
The Great Speckled Bird (1970) * George Jones
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1943) *Harry Roy & His Band
The Great Speckled Bird (live) *Herbert Trip and Band
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes * Jean Shepard *The Melody Ranch Girl (Disc 2) . 1956
The Wild Side Of Life *Jerry Mac
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1964) * Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys *1964
The Prisoner's Song * Mac Wiseman
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes *Porter Wagoner
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1966) * Red Allen & The Kentuckians
The Great Speckled Bird (1961) *Rev. Pearly Brown * 1961
Great Speckled Bird *Roy Drusky *1965
The Great Speckled Bird (1976) *Sonny James
The Prisoner's Song (1976) *Sonny James
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1964) * The Andrews Sisters
Wild Side Of Life-Honky Tonk Angels (1985) * The Knitters
The Wild Side Of Life (live) (1993) * The Third Rail Band
The Wild Side Of Life (1964) *Tommy Quickly & The Remo Four
The Great Speckled Bird *Tompall Glaser
Heavenly Houseboat Blues (otra version) *Townes Van Zandt
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels *Vicki Searle
The Great Speckled Bird (1966) *Wanda Jackson
Prisoner's Song (1958) *Warren Storm
The Great Speckled Bird *Webb Pierce -Saturday Night .1968
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1958) *Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) *1958
Prisoner's Song (1943) *Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) *1943
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also,
Ernest Helton - Prisoner's Song (1925)
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* ERNEST HELTON
*Wanda Jackson
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