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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
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 ...
Jay & The Americans; The Ames Brothers [1]; The Andrews Sisters; Dave Appell & the Applejacks; Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes; The Bell Notes; Bill Haley & His Comets
On May 16, 1953, the first Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival was held in Meridian. The festival featured appearances by country music singers and other entertainers who were influenced by Rodgers, as well as his family members. The festival was celebrated in an intermittent fashion until it became a recurring event starting in 1972. [136]
In the late 1990s, they reunited with the Mystics and the Classics for the Brooklyn Reunion Show. Lead singer Jimmy Gallagher left the Passions in 1960 to join the Navy, but later sang with The Legends of Doo Wop in 1998. [3]
Jimmy Buffett, the tropical troubadour whose folksy tunes celebrated his laid-back lifestyle, inspired legions of devoted fans and spawned a lucrative business empire, has died, according to his ...
Jimmy Buffett, the singer best known for detailing his times in “Margaritaville,” died on Sept. 1. He was 76. Buffett had been hospitalized in Boston in May to address undisclosed “issues ...
The First Generation of Country Music Stars: Biographies of 50 Artists Born Before 1940. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-48558-1. Heylin, Clinton (2015). It's One For The Money. Hachette UK. ISBN 978-147-211200-2. Bond, Johnny (1977). "The Hit Songwriter that Nashville Forgot (but not the rest of us)". JEMF Quarterly. 13 (45).