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| | Roy Acuff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Acuff spent most of the 1950s and 1960s touring constantly, becoming one of the hottest tickets in country music. | | | Acuff became a regular on the Grand Ole Opry in 1938, forming a backing band called the Smoky Mountain Boys, led by friend and Dobro player Bashful Brother Oswald. | | | By the 1970s Acuff performed almost exclusively with the Grand Ole Opry, at Opryland USA, greatly legitimizing it as the top institution in country music. |
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| | Roy Acuff: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more Music.com |
| | Acuff was the first country music superstar after the death of Jimmie Rodgers [+], pioneering an influential vocal style that complemented the spare, simple songs he was performing. | | | Through his records, his performances, and Acuff-Rose, Roy Acuff [+] has had an enormous effect on shaping the role of country music in the 20th century; it is hard to imagine the music without him. | | | Throughout his career, Acuff was a champion for traditional country values, enforcing his beliefs as a performer, a music publisher, and as the Grand Master of the Grand Ole Opry. |
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| | Roy Acuff Biography |
| | Acuff was born in 1903 in Maynardsville, Tennessee, the third of five children in a family that loved music. | | | He followed that with a national tour, recording in 1940 in Dallas and then moving to Hollywood to be in the movie, "Grand Ole Opry," which began a movie career alongside his music. | | | However, listeners were excited about this new fiddle and vocal talent and he scored radio spots and concert appearances with the popular Delmore Brothers. |
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| | Roy Acuff |
| | Roy Acuff, "King of the Hillbillies," "Backwoods Sinatra," "Caruso of Mountain Music," sold more records than any other country star in the '30s and '40s. | | | Acuff continued recording and performing on the Opry well into the 1990s. | | | As his popularity grew, Acuff eliminated the "progressive" members of his band- those who advocated the crooning and jazz influences- and replaced the pop-oriented and risqué love songs. |
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| | Roughstock's History of Country Music - Acuff & The Grand Ole Opry |
| | Acuff's tremendous contribution to country music was recognized in November 1962, when he became the first living musician to be honored as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. | | | During the '40s, Acuff's recordings became so popular that he headed Frank Sinatra in some major music polls and reportedly caused Japanese troops to yell 'To hell with Roosevelt, to hell with Babe Ruth, to hell with Roy Acuff' as they banzai-charged at Okinawa. | | | He guested on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's triple album set "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?" in 1972, lending credence to contemporary and country-rock music. |
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| | Roy Acuff |
| | "The Great Roy Acuff" collects 12 songs which were intended for release as singles and were almost all written by the Acuff-Rose songwriters. | | | Acuff handled lead vocals (and kazoo on the pleasingly silly "Sixteen Chickens and a Tamborine," from "The Voice of Country Music"). | | | The title is extremely apt, as Roy is at his hillbilly best here, showing how he won first the title "King of the Hillbillies," and then later, refined to "King of Country Music." None of these singles charted for the King, and even by 1953 there was a dated quality to them. |
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| | Rockzilla.net Roy Acuff "The Good News According to Mr. Roy Acuff" by William Michael Smith |
| | Acuff was never a fan of ornate productions and the only flourishes included here are the occasional backing vocals by a "choir" most likely made up of Nashville/Opry regulars (I swear I can hear Grandpa Jones's voice in there!). | | | Despite having been a hit for Hank Williams, "I Saw The Light" became one of Acuff's signatures and it is absolutely fitting that this compilation begins with an energized roof-raising version that is good-timey and spirit lifting the way gospel country music ought to be. | | | If Acuff's versions of "Precious Memories" and "The Precious Jewel" (with its famous signature opening "Way back in the hills/when a boy I once wondered" and Oswald's masterful dobro work) don't get you where you live, you either haven't heard them or you aren't a fan of country music. |
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| | Country Standard Time: Roy Acuff |
| | Culled from Roy Acuff's late '50s through early '70s tenure with Hickory, this 18-song compilation celebrates the best of the Grand Ole Opry legend's latter-day country-gospel recordings. | | | Listen close and you can all but see straight-backed Acuff at the microphone, head slung back, mouth wide and wailing these songs. | | | One listen to Dualtone's trio of Acuff re-releases would convince even the most doubtful of doubters. |
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| | Roy Acuff |
| | Pop music prior to Sinatra and what was then called Hillbilly music, prior to Roy Acuff, was primarily instrumental. | | | Oh sure, there were lyrics to at least most of the songs and the singer would come in somewhere in the middle of the piece for a verse or two and then the band finished it out. | | | A couple years later, Roy was asked to do a fill-in and thus, an audition, on the Grand Ole Opry. |
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| | In 1971 Acuff received a substantial boost by participating in the famous Will the Circle Be Unbroken album project, which featured the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and a number of country artists. | | | By the early fifties, Acuff could easily have retired from the recording studio and the road, but he remained active, recording for Capitol, Decca, MGM, and after 1957, Hickory Records, a label he formed with Fred Rose and Wesley Rose in 1953. | | | Although appearances on Hee Haw and TV specials also helped to keep Acuff in the public eye, his primary showcase continued to be the Grand Ole Opry. |
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| | Country - Roy Acuff -> Hoyt Axton |
| | This is a fabulous collection of 20 early recordings by this country music pioneer who was the first inductee in the Country Music Hall Of Fame. | | | If you're going to buy one Acuff album, this is certainly the one to get since these are really his most important recordings. | | | Previously released as Columbia LP 16596, budget presentation. |
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| | Acuff helped turn the Grand Ole Opry into the nation’s foremost country music institution, and his role in the music publishing business helped make Nashville the country music capital of America. | | | He helped turn the Grand Ole Opry into the nation’s foremost country music institution and was instrumental in making Nashville the country music capital of America. | | | “Through the issuance of this stamp, we celebrate Roy Acuff’s life and history-making career accomplishments that entertained generations of country music listeners,” said Postmaster General John E. Potter, who will dedicate the stamp. |
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| | Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Roy Acuff |
| | The song was "The Great Speckled Bird." Two years later, Acuff and the band made an audition appearance on February 5, 1938, at the Grand Ole Opry. | | | As the mail began pouring in, he became the Opry's first real solo singing star, and he has reigned ever since as the king of country music with hits such as "Wabash Cannonball," "Wreck on the Highway," "Fireball Mail," "Night Train to Memphis," "Low and Lonely," and many, many more. | | | The first recording came in 1936 with the American Record Company. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Roy Acuff's 100th birthday |
| | Acuff, however, was the top symbol of the music. | | | He was never a big songwriter personally, but he was co-owner of Acuff Rose Publishing, the biggest country music song publishers probably to this day. | | | Bottom line, you can reasonably get by with one good Roy Acuff hits album, unlike Rodgers or the Carters. |
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| | Doctor Hauer (Master of Ceremonies), Roy (fiddle and vocals) and Jake Tindell (guitar and blackface) were the traveling medicine show. | | | After the war he and "Dizzy" Dean were on the air together and "Dizzy" called him "the King of the Hillbillies;" and, as the music gained respectability, the title became "the King of Country Music." | | | A.C. Dunkleberger, King of Country Music (The Life Story of Roy Acuff), Nashville, 1971. |
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| | Acuff, a 54-year member of the Grand Ole Opry, died in 1992. | | | Vince Gill and members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-- Jeff Hanna, John McEuen, and Jimmie Fadden—are among those scheduled to appear, sharing stories and songs as they honor the King of Country Music. | | | ) – The Grand Ole Opry will pay tribute to one of its most beloved members, Roy Acuff, on Saturday, Sept. 13. |
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| | Gibsons featured in new Roy Acuff/Minnie Pearl museum at Opryland |
| | Acuff's collection also includes some 1930s Dobros, a rare Epiphone Recording guitar from the late 1920s, and some Vivi-Tone solidbody electric instruments (body-less would be a more accurate term), the latter designed by the legendary Lloyd Loar in his post-Gibson years. | | | He was largely responsible for bringing country music out of the string band era and into the modern era of individual stars, an achievement that earned him the title "The King of Country Music." Throughout his long career he was an avid collector of stringed instruments. | | | Acuff began his career in the mid 1930s, joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1938 and was still performing on the Opry right up to his death in 1992. |
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| | Roy Acuff News |
| | Nashville Songwriters Association International has purchased the Music Mill building on the corner of 18th Avenue and Roy Acuff and expects to move its headquarters there May 2. | | | Here in Music City, a lot of country entertainers have been honored with awards. | | | Charleston Heights hosts Williams tribute Singer, actor and musician Jason Petty will perform a tribute to country music legend Hank Williams on Sunday at the Charleston Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St. 2 |
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| | RollingStone.com: Roy Acuff Music, Biography, Influences, Followers, Related Projects, Contemporaries |
| | A perennial favorite on the Grand Ole Opry until his death in 1992, Roy Acuff stands as one of the most influential and well known artists of the early country music era. | | | Culling thousands of songs he wrote (and claimed to have written) under the umbrella of mammoth publishing house Acuff-Rose, he and songwriter Fred Rose for a time were co-owners of just about every song identified with Nashville, from Hank Williams to the Everly Brothers. | | | Acuff became an overnight sensation when he played the now classic "The Great Speckled Bird" on the Opry in 1938, introducing America to his characteristically intense vocal style -- a style that left an indelible mark on country music. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Roy Acuff |
| | Acuff, Roy (1903-92), American country music fiddler, singer, and composer, born in Maynardsville, Tennessee. | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | ROY ACUFF |
| | By 1942, he was the leading vocal star of the Grand Ole Opry. | | | Fowl Ball: An impressive flock of local and international showbirds gathered recently for an impromptu musical performance at the James D. Martin Wildlife Park in Gadsden, AL. | | | native of Maynardsville, Tennessee, Roy Claxton Acuff did not become active in music until sensitivity to sun ruled out a career in Major League baseball. |
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| | Hank Williams, Roy Acuff and then God!! |
| | He's the biggest singer the music ever knew. | | | He'd stand up there singing, tears running down his cheeks." | | | Acuff was his idol and Fred Rose, his inspiration. |
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| | Oldies.com : Roy Acuff |
| | A budget-priced 10-track collection of favorites from Roy Acuff. | | | View the Complete Album Songs List of Roy Acuff | | | Contact us by E-Mail Products and Order Questions or Website Comments. |
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| | Amazon.com: Music: The Essential Roy Acuff: 1936-1949 |
| | In short, if you're not familiar with Acuff, this is not a bad set, but the Greatest Hits CD on Columbia offers a broader selection. | | | Acuff combined elements of old-time, string-band, and hillbilly music (adding Dobro and then harmonica), forging an emotional, pure, polished sound; his lonesome voice was capable of great sensitivity as well as a jocularity carried over from his medicine-show days. | | | This 20-song collection opens with 1936's "Great Speckle Bird," the gospel number that first brought him fame, and includes his biggest 1940s hits. |
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| | Acuff, Roy Claxton -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | His booming country tenor voice regaled listeners with such all-time favorite songs as & Great Speckled Bird', his first and one of his biggest hits, and ‘Wabash Cannonball', featuring his train-whistle imitation. | | | The French-Canadian novelist Gabrielle Roy was praised for her skill in depicting the hopes and frustrations of the poor. | | | The first one-man show of his cartoon paintings in New York City in 1962 was considered to be a sensation. |
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| | The Old Age Pension Check (Roy Acuff) |
| | John W. Rumble, liner notes for "Country and Western Classics -- Roy Acuff," Time-Life Records, 1983, p. | | | Roy Acuff ran for governor of Tennessee in 1948, but his music has been decidedly apolitical. | | | There are some words in it that are a little touchy for some people: 'Send your dime to Washington -- get on relief.' It was more of a comedy song for me, but it was taken a little bit politically by some. |
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| | Roy Acuff - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Roy Acuff - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links | | | Browse artists: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # |
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| | Grand Ole Opry to Salute Roy Acuff |
| | The Grand Ole Opry will salute Roy Acuff on September 13. | | | Vince Gill and members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band are scheduled to appear. | | | Acuff, who died in 1992, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on September 15. |
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| | The substantial entries are written in a relaxed, conversational style and contain a mix of biographical background material on the people covered, highlights of their careers, and information on songs and albums they recorded." | | | The encyclopedia covers a variety of related genres: country rock, bluegrass, rockabilly, country gospel, honky-tonk, western swing, and cowboy and cowgirl artists. | | | Besides entries on classic artists like Kitty Wells, Roy Acuff, and Hank Williams, the book also provides material on a number of artists with folk and country credentials, such as Guy Clark, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Gillian Welch, and Alison Krauss and Union Station. |
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| | Am I Right - Artist Summary Roy Acuff |
| | The Essential Roy Acuff: 1936-1949 album at Amazon.com | | | This is the most recent information about Roy Acuff that has been submitted to amIright. | | | If we have more information about Roy Acuff, then we provide a link to the section where it appears (the actual page whenever possible). |
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| | Visiting with Gene, ‘Roy Acuff’s fiddle player’ |
| | I listened to his words and focused my camera on his alert blue eyes, his long sideburns and the small bump on the end of his nose. | | | And I am always happy to see Gene, but I doubt some of his claims. | | | The man nodded, then he began talking non-stop. |
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| | Grand Old Opry, Roy Acuff |
| | This Booklet is a must for the Opry collectors. | | | Description: This booklet is about Roy Acuff and is Mountain Boys, and how the Grand Old Opry came to be, with lots of history and almost every page has pictures of the many artist who made up the early years of the Opry. |
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| | Cowboy Canteen (1944) (as Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys and Girls).... | | | Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys and Girls | | | Find where Roy Acuff is credited alongside another name |
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| | Xtreme Musician: Roy Acuff |
| | I was a long-haired musician before hippies came along." | | | Do you have additional information on Roy Acuff? |
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| | Roy Acuff's Open House (Volume Roy Acuff's Open House (Volum... |
| | Roy Acuff's Open House (Volume Roy Acuff's Open House (Volum... | | | Roy Acuff's Open House (Volume Roy Acuff's Open House (Volume One) 50's TV VHS | | | Great country classics from this Classic 50's TV Show VHS Check out our website at (www.20thcenturynostalgia.com) |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: RO: ROY |
| | Roy Orbison & Friends, A Black & White Night | | | Roy may refer to:PlacesRoy, New Mexico, USARoy, Utah, USARoy, Washington, USAPeopleRoy Horn, half of the Las Vegas show team Siegfried & RoyRoy, a character from the game Fire Emblem: Fuuin no TsurugiRoy, a minor... | | | Roy Orbison - Live at Austin City Limits |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Comprehensive Country Music Encyclopedia |
| | Biographical sketches of old-timers, seasoned favorites, the lesser known, and glitzy newcomers dominate the pages to such an extent that a topical entry catches the reader by surprise. | | | Written in a style reminiscent of popular magazines, this easy-to-read and informative encyclopedia ranges from Roy Acuff to Zydeco. | | | Publisher: Learn how customers can search inside this book. |
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