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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).
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.
Porter & Dolly is the thirteenth and final collaborative studio album by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton. It was released on August 4, 1980, by RCA Victor . The album is made up of previously unreleased material recorded during Wagoner and Parton's duet years (1967–76), with new studio overdubs .
Don Warden (March 27, 1929 – March 11, 2017) was an American country steel guitarist and manager best known for his years on The Porter Wagoner Show and as the manager of Wagoner and Dolly Parton. Biography
Confessions of a Broken Man is a studio album by country music singer Porter Wagoner.It was released in 1966 by RCA Victor (catalog no. LPM-3593). [1]The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top Country Albums chart on October 8, 1966, peaked at No. 6, and remained on the chart for a total of 17 weeks.
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.
Wagoner's version reached No. 8 on the Billboard country charts in the spring of 1956, [1] and was the higher of two competing chart versions released that year. Also in 1956, another up-and-coming country singer, Red Sovine , released his own version on Decca Records , which peaked at No. 15.
The review in the July 12, 1969 issue of Billboard said, "In the tradition of the country duet, you would have to see far to find another as polished and professional as Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton—and few of those would be as successful. Here's their hit "Always, Always", and the impactful "Yours Love".