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Porter Wayne Wagoner (August 12, 1927 – October 28, 2007) [1] was an American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour. In 1967, he introduced singer Dolly Parton on his television show, The Porter Wagoner Show. She became part of a well-known vocal duo with him from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.
Woodlawn Memorial Park is one of the largest cemeteries in Nashville, known as a site where many prominent country music personalities are buried including Porter Wagoner, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Eddy Arnold. It is located 660 Thompson Lane, a site rich in history.
Porter Wagoner in Person is a live album by country music singer Porter Wagoner and other performers, including Norma Jean, Jack Little, and Bacon Rhodes.It was recorded live in West Plains, Missouri, and released in 1964 by RCA Victor (catalog no. LSP-4116).
Norma Jean Beasler (born January 30, 1938) [1] is an American country music singer who was a member of The Porter Wagoner Show from 1961–1967. She had 13 country singles in Billboard ' s Country Top 40 between 1963 and 1968, recorded twenty albums for RCA Victor between 1964 and 1973, received two Grammy nominations, and was a Grand Ole Opry member for several years.
During the 1960s, he worked as an old-time fiddler on The Porter Wagoner Show [4] and later worked with the aspiring female star on the show, Dolly Parton. [2] Among the later songs Magaha wrote, "We'll Get Ahead Someday" provided a top-ten country single for Wagoner and Parton in 1968, one of their first duet hits.
Porter Wagoner, left, and Dolly Parton arrive for the CMA Awards banquet at the Municipal Auditorium on Oct. 16, 1970. She said Wagoner will be part of a musical for Broadway that she is working ...
"Green, Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., and first recorded by singer Johnny Darrell in 1965, is a country song made popular by Porter Wagoner the same year, when it reached No. 4 on the Country chart. [2]
This is a detailed discography for American country music artist Porter Wagoner.In his 1992 biography A Satisfied Mind: The Country Music Life of Porter Wagoner, Steve Eng estimated that Wagoner had released "at best count...more than eighty albums and numberless singles". [1]