Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music", Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.
It should only contain pages that are Roy Acuff songs or lists of Roy Acuff songs, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Roy Acuff songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
In addition to the Carter Family's 1929 recording and Roy Acuff's 1936 recording, many hillbilly artists recorded "The Wabash Cannonball" during the Great Depression era of the 1930s, and the song was also recorded by Piedmont blues musician Blind Willie McTell. Bing Crosby recorded the song for his album Bing Crosby Sings The Great Country ...
The Grand Ole Opry House, Roy Acuff Theater (later renamed BellSouth Acuff Theater), and the Grand Ole Opry Museum remained in constant use throughout and after demolition of the park. The buildings that once housed the Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl museums eventually became the administrative offices of WSM radio. The Gaslight Theater became home ...
Roy Acuff, an "early-day friend and apprentice" of Clarence Ashley's, learned it from him and recorded it as "Rising Sun" on November 3, 1938. [5] [16] The narrative of the lyrics has varied between male and female narrators. The earliest known printed version from Gordon's column is about a woman's warning.
Roy Acuff recorded his first version of "Freight Train Blues" in Chicago on October 21, 1936, with his group, billed as "Roy Acuff and His Crazy Tennesseeans". [6] Group harmonica player Sam "Dynamite" Hatcher, who "prefer[red] blues-tinged numbers", [7] provided the vocal, while Acuff added the simulated train whistle. [8]
Home in San Antone is a 1949 American Western musical film directed by Ray Nazarro, and starring Roy Acuff, The Smoky Mountain Boys, The Modernaires, Doye O'Dell, Lyn Thomas, and Bill Edwards. The film was released by Columbia Pictures on April 15, 1949. [1] [2] [3]
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band included the song on their 1972 album Will the Circle be Unbroken; Roy Acuff took the lead vocal. Ricky Skaggs and The Whites recorded the song on their 2007 album Salt of the Earth, [8] and Merle Haggard and Chester Smith released a duet of the song on their country-gospel album California Blend. [9]