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Joi Lansing (born Joy Rae Brown; April 6, 1929 [3] – August 7, 1972) was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening "tracking shot" in Orson Welles' 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil.
Flatt, a traditionalist, did not like these changes, and the group broke up in 1969. [2] Following the breakup, Lester Flatt founded the Nashville Grass and Scruggs led the Earl Scruggs Revue. Flatt died of heart failure in Nashville, Tennessee, May 11, 1979 at the age of 64. [3] Scruggs died from natural causes on March 28, 2012 in a Nashville ...
Lester's hometown of Sparta, Tennessee, held a bluegrass festival in his honor for a number of years, before being discontinued a few years prior to the death of the traditional host, resident Everette Paul England; Lester Flatt Memorial Bluegrass Day remains part of the annual Liberty Square Celebration held in Sparta.
After Flatt and Scruggs, Curly took a break from the music business until 1973, when Lester Flatt asked him to be a part of his group, the Nashville Grass Band. Upon Lester Flatt's death in 1979, Seckler became the leader of the Nashville Grass band and continued playing with the band. Seckler held this position until his retirement in 1994 ...
Gladys Flatt (Joi Lansing), fictional actress wife of musician/songwriter Lester Flatt – The Beverly Hillbillies, Episode "Delovely and Scruggs" Guy Fleegman (Sam Rockwell), actor who played "Crewman #6" in an episode of the fictional television series Galaxy Quest – Galaxy Quest
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Louise Scruggs (née Certain 17 February 1927 — 2 February 2006) was an American music manager and booking agent. Scruggs became the first woman manager in the music industry when she started managing American bluegrass band Flatt and Scruggs in 1955.
A judge told the parents of 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg, a Philadelphia teacher found dead with 20 stab wounds in 2011, that the city's declaration of suicide was "puzzling."