In its nearly 100-year history, few events have stopped the Grand Ole Opry broadcasts. And while each calendar year is different, the Opry’s weekend shows, now on Friday and Saturday nights, have more than a few times, including this year, fallen on Christmas Eve and/or Christmas Day. Back on Christmas Eve 1960, as Nashville was recovering from three days of snowfall and bitter cold, the Opry presented a jubilant show with Patsy Cline, Hank Snow, Archie Campbell, and Minnie Pearl. Mixed among hits of the day were the Opry...
- 12/23/2022
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Happy 88th birthday to music icon Loretta Lynn, born this day in 1932, in the tiny coal-mining community of Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. Lynn, who immortalized “Butcher Holler” in her autobiographical 1970 single “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” arrived in Nashville in the early Sixties, appearing on the Grand Ole Opry for the first time 60 years ago before she eventually joined the Opry cast in September 1962.
Although she had recorded her debut single “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl” in 1960 for Zero Records, an independent label based in Canada, Lynn would sign to Decca Records...
Although she had recorded her debut single “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl” in 1960 for Zero Records, an independent label based in Canada, Lynn would sign to Decca Records...
- 4/14/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
By the time Dolly Parton had entered her teens, the young girl from the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee had accomplished something that most adults who love to sing country music could only dare dream: she had performed on the Grand Ole Opry.
Parton, who this week celebrates her 50th anniversary as a member of the Opry cast with an all-star salute, was officially inducted as an Opry member in January 1969, by which time she was a nationally recognized TV star alongside Porter Wagoner. But in 1959, the 13-year-old, then unknown outside of Knoxville,...
Parton, who this week celebrates her 50th anniversary as a member of the Opry cast with an all-star salute, was officially inducted as an Opry member in January 1969, by which time she was a nationally recognized TV star alongside Porter Wagoner. But in 1959, the 13-year-old, then unknown outside of Knoxville,...
- 10/11/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Maxine Brown Russell, a member of the groundbreaking trio the Browns with siblings Jim Ed and Bonnie Brown, died Monday in hospice care in Little Rock, Arkansas, from complications of kidney and heart disease. She was 87.
As one of the premier vocal groups bridging the gap of pop and country music in the late Fifties, the Browns’ silky smooth harmony vocals turned the 1959 single, “The Three Bells,” based on the 1945 French tune “Les Trois Cloches,” into a 10-week Number One hit on the country chart. The trio’s version also...
As one of the premier vocal groups bridging the gap of pop and country music in the late Fifties, the Browns’ silky smooth harmony vocals turned the 1959 single, “The Three Bells,” based on the 1945 French tune “Les Trois Cloches,” into a 10-week Number One hit on the country chart. The trio’s version also...
- 1/22/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Thanks for the music, Jim Ed Brown. The Grand Ole Opry singer and 2015 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame has died, The Tennessean reported. Brown, who enjoyed a 70-year career, died in Franklin, Tenn., after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He was 81. Earning spots on the Billboard charts as a solo performer, duet singer, and with his sisters, Maxine and Bonnie Brown, the country star's 1959 song "The Three Bells" was nestled at the No. 1 spot on the country chart for [...]...
- 6/12/2015
- Us Weekly
Jim Ed Brown, a long-time Grand Ole Opry member, died of cancer on Thursday. He was 81. The country music star passed away at the Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tennessee. He will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame this year. Brown was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2014. The cancer went into remission in January after treatment but returned more aggressively in recent weeks, reported USAToday. After he resumed chemotherapy, fellow ountry legend Bill Anderson visited Brown in his hospital room to present him with a Country Music Hall of Fame medallion, five months ahead of the official induction ceremony.
- 6/12/2015
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
Jim Ed Brown, a member of the country music trio The Browns and a star of the Grand Ole Opry for more than a half-century, died Thursday. He was 81. Brown, who was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame in March with his sisters Maxine and Bonnie, died at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tenn. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in September. The Browns’ 1959 crossover smash “The Three Bells” topped Billboard’s country chart for 10 straight weeks, and it spent four weeks atop Billboard’s all-genre singles chart. “If you listen to The Browns, it’s
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- 6/12/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fredric Moore Imus died in his sleep on August 6th 2011.
He was 69 years old.
Imus born on January 11th, 1942, is known for his country songs.
Imus and his brother Don recorded “I’m a Hot Rodder and All That Jazz” in 1963, which was released under the names Jay Jay Imus and Freddy Ford.
Imus wrote “I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You” in 1976.
That song which reached number one on the country charts was recorded by Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius. Imus co-wrote two books, The Fred book with Mike Lupica and Two Guys, Fours Corners with his brother Don Imus.
Imus was the brother of radio personality Don Imus. Imus was a Kent State University alumni and former member of the Army’s 101st Airborne division. Imus was married and divorced twice. He is survived by three sons and many grandchildren.
Fred Imus Dies at 69...
He was 69 years old.
Imus born on January 11th, 1942, is known for his country songs.
Imus and his brother Don recorded “I’m a Hot Rodder and All That Jazz” in 1963, which was released under the names Jay Jay Imus and Freddy Ford.
Imus wrote “I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You” in 1976.
That song which reached number one on the country charts was recorded by Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius. Imus co-wrote two books, The Fred book with Mike Lupica and Two Guys, Fours Corners with his brother Don Imus.
Imus was the brother of radio personality Don Imus. Imus was a Kent State University alumni and former member of the Army’s 101st Airborne division. Imus was married and divorced twice. He is survived by three sons and many grandchildren.
Fred Imus Dies at 69...
- 8/10/2011
- by admin
- Movie News Guide
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