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Johnny Rodriguez is an American country music singer. He is a Tejano and Texas country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me ...
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1950s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
US Country Label 1959 Songs of the Open Country — Tiffany 1961 Singing Just for Fun — 1962 I Love to Tell the Story — 1965 A Tombstone Every Mile: 12 Tower Hymns — 1966 The Soul of Dick Curless — Travelin' Man — At Home with Dick Curless — A Devil Like Me Needs an Angel Like You (w/ Kay Adams) 16 1967 All of Me Belongs to You ...
He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966), Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music ...
In 1950, Cooley had significant roles in several films. In the summer of 1946, the Cooley band fragmented after the bandleader fired Williams, who had offers to record on his own. A number of key sidemen, including guitarist Johnny Weis, left with Williams, who formed the Western Caravan, which incorporated a sound similar to Cooley's.
The Inglewood resident was one of very few Black men to have success in country music in the 1970s, and one of two known Black male artists from California who performed at a nationally-charting ...
Co-stars, fans and fellow singers are paying tribute after the death of Grammy Award-winning country artist and actor Kris Kristofferson.. The US entertainer, who starred in films including the ...
Susan Raye (born October 8, 1944) [1] is an American country music singer. She enjoyed great popularity during the early and mid-1970s, and chalked up seven top-10 and 19 top-40 country hits, most notably the song "L.A. International Airport", an international crossover pop hit in 1971. Raye was a protegee of country music singer Buck Owens ...