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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.
The singer tells the story of a single-car accident that occurred near his hometown. The passenger, Walter Browning, an upstanding member of the community and seemingly happily married man, dies; while the driver, Mary Ellen Jones, a woman not his wife but also well respected, survives to testify that she was taking him to town on an errand of mercy.
After the Porter Wagoner television show ended, Speck worked alone for a few years until retiring in September 1996. He died at his home in Nashville on March 19, 2000, at age 84. He and his wife Alice are buried at Spring Hill Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee .
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.
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 ...
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.
Claude "Curly" Putman Jr. (November 20, 1930 – October 30, 2016) was an American songwriter.. Born in Princeton, Alabama, his greatest success was "Green, Green Grass of Home" (1964, sung by Porter Wagoner), which was covered by Roger Miller, Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers, Don Williams, Johnny Paycheck, Burl Ives, Johnny Darrell, Gram Parsons, Joan Baez, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Grateful Dead ...
Nearly two years after Kim Porter's death, Al B. Sure is opening up about their relationship. The '90s R&B singer revealed on Wednesday that he and the late model, who died unexpectedly in ...