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The Jimmie Rodgers Entertainers (Rodgers, second from the left, holding a banjo) After the group was fired from the radio show, they found a job performing at a resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains . There, Rodgers heard of the upcoming field recordings that engineer Ralph Peer of the Victor Talking Machine Company was to undertake in Bristol ...
James Frederick Rodgers (September 18, 1933 – January 18, 2021) was an American pop singer. Rodgers had a run of hits and mainstream popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. His string of crossover singles ranked highly on the Billboard Pop Singles, Hot Country and Western Sides, and Hot Rhythm and Blues Sides charts; in the 1960s, Rodgers had more modest successes with adult contemporary mu
In the February 7, 1953, edition, [14] Billboard magazine reported that Snow's then-17-year-old son, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, had signed with RCA Victor, and that the younger Snow would "record duets with his father," as well as cover his own material.
Death date Notes Jimmie Rodgers: 1961 September 8, 1897 May 26, 1933 Singer-songwriter and musician Fred Rose: 1961 August 24, 1898 December 1, 1954 Songwriter and music publisher: Hank Williams: 1961 September 17, 1923 January 1, 1953 Singer-songwriter Roy Acuff: 1962 September 15, 1903 November 23, 1992 Singer-songwriter and music publisher ...
Ernest Tubb Tubb c. 1964 Background information Birth name Ernest Dale Tubb Also known as The Texas Troubadour Born (1914-02-09) February 9, 1914 Crisp, Texas, U.S. Died September 6, 1984 (1984-09-06) (aged 70) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Genres Country honky-tonk Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, bandleader Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar Discography Ernest Tubb discography Years active 1936 ...
Jimmie Rodgers, a sweet-voiced singer who scaled the music charts in the 1950s and ’60s before his career was disrupted by a head injury, died Monday in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 87. Rodgers ...
Hank Snow was a Canadian country music singer-songwriter and musician. His discography consists of 46 studio albums and 89 singles.Of his 89 singles, seven reached number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and two reached number 1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.
The blue yodel songs are a series of thirteen songs written and recorded by Jimmie Rodgers during the period from 1927 to his death in May 1933. The songs were based on the 12-bar blues format and featured Rodgers’ trademark yodel refrains. The lyrics often had a risqué quality with "a macho, slightly dangerous undertone."