The originator of the Bakersfield sound, he once referred to himself in song as "Ol' Buck"
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Week 47: Buck Baron Bakersfield Bust The Club or Owens, Of ...  He picked, grinned, and created an empire based on hits and questionable ... or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little about, ... most important collaborator, and one of the architects of the Nashville sound. ... Owens and Rich had stumbled upon a winning formula: simple, direct songs of...
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Don Rich Sings George Jones  In addition, we get four solo tracks here from ol' Buck himself done especially for ... went so quietly during 1974-1980 while no one was looking and today he is sadly no ... I grew up listening to Buck Owens, Don Rich and other Bakersfield sound artists. ... On this album, Don just sings some of George Jones' excellent songs.
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USATODAY.com - Buck Owens shaped sound of country  Mar 25, 2006 ... ... of the Music City News, Monsters' Holiday and You Ain't Gonna Have Ol' Buck to ... But he wasn't contradicting himself: Owens was one of those rare ... for the song you'd pick if you had just one to define the Buck Owens sound. ... Streets of Bakersfield (duet with Dwight Yoakam, 1988): How great was it...
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Singer Buck Owens has died [Archive] - The Technodrome Forums  His career was one of the most phenomenal in country music, with a ... that came to be known throughout California as the "Bakersfield Sound," ... the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time," he said in 1992. ... Owens himself could be rebellious, choosing among other things to ... Not good ol' Buck!
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Buck Owens | Free Internet Radio | AOL Radio  After "Under Your Spell Again" became a success, Owens moved back to Bakersfield. ... Owens explained that "Memphis" was a rockabilly song, a genre he believed to ... Capitol allowed him to record himself and several other artists -- including ... sound more like country-pop than the hard-edged Bakersfield sound he had...
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Hillbilly-Music.com - News, Events & Press Releases  Feb 6, 2009 ... Announcement Made at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum With Special ... "Roy, Charlie and Barbara - each in their own way - have nodded to tradition to ... Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, and Nashville Skyline. ... Barbara Mandrell ("I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool"), Ronnie...
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This question originally aired on March 27, 2007... | Jeopardy ...  Mar 27, 2007 ... ... KIND OF TOWN Question: On Nov. 16, 1941 Berwyn, Oklahoma was renamed for this singing cowboy who owned land there Answer: Gene...
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The Voice of Orpheus - Sons of OrpheusThe Male Choir of Tucson  Two months after Mozart began his short run at St. Stephens, he wrote the ... There ain't no sense in Rataplan either, but we'll sing it for you with the ... cowboy group including Mule Train, Tumblin' Tumbleweeds, and Streets of Laredo. .... Cool Water: Bob Nolan wrote the words while a student at Tucson High School.
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Morast: Roy Clark, country music ambassador | INFORUM  Nov 10, 2011 ... Roy Clark will never be called a country music legend - that term is reserved for ... the music/humor TV show created as a "country" version of "Laugh-In." ... to the music of Clark, co-host Buck Owens or any of the musical guests on the .... *Proficient in using Glyphworks software or equivalent type software...
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'Pilot voice' - that familiar speaking pattern - can be traced back to ...  Sep 15, 2015 ... ... region of the United States, in the West Virginian mountains, named Chuck Yeager. ... Breaking the sound barrier for the first time created a sonic boom that ... began to talk in that poker-hollow West Virginia drawl, or as close to it as ... Today I will fly into Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia and be...
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We'll Bet You Didn't Know - Champion Personnel System  For those of us who don't know, Neilson Media Research is the leading .... State Nickname-The Buckeye State ... State Song-Beautiful Ohio, adopted 1969 .... At twelve years young, Charles put together his first static electric machine and...
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The Best Tunes in Texas - Luckenbach, Texas  It's the title of a classic 1977 Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings ballad about ... Subtitled Back to the Basics of Love, the song became a massive hit in the 1970s, ... The town was established in 1849 as a trading post for Comanche Indians and ... The song's suggestion that we sell that "diamond ring, buy some boots and...
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The Buckaroos | Biography & History | AllMusic  Like most backing bands, the Buckaroos didn't emerge fully formed. Owens began assembling his supporting group in 1962, just after he began his remarkable...
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It's a Country Tradition: An Interview with Mark Chesnutt | No ...  Jul 23, 2016 ... There's no certain song I'm looking for. ... Because you can't have an album that's just full of the same type of song. ... Merle Haggard is the backbone and George Jones is the soul. .... [Laughs] You know, George used to tell me stories ... died right at the start of my career, I didn't have nobody to guide me.
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Home at the Range No More, Randy Travis Flexes His Nashville ...  Nov 10, 1986 ... Randy Travis need never worry about dreaming up stories to put into song: He's ... he was deep-frying catfish in the kitchen of the Nashville Palace nightclub, where he was earning a living as dishwasher, cook and sometime singer. ... Born Randy Traywick in Marshville, N.C., Travis and his older brother...
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The Singing Cowboy | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal  Oct 7, 1998 ... Former sidekick Pat Buttram, referring to Mr. Autry wealth and property holdings, once said: "He used to ride off into the sunset. Now he owns it.".
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RADIOthen.com: RADIOthen The Lone Ranger on LIVE365.com  Hear original episodes on our RADIOthen Lone Ranger station via ... radio by George Seaton, Earle Graser, [photo] and most memorably Brace Beemer. wikipedia .... Finally, how to distinguish him from a thousand other Western heroes? ... The studio manager was flipping a souvenir penny as he listened--a penny with an...
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Whiskey River (Take My Mind) - Stagecoach Ballroom  started calling him Winnie Mac Pigshit Bush, a name he still loves to ... to mention Bush's early years playing nightclubs around Houston and ... fulfirst-person narrative, the work provides its own best artistic jus- .... It was Nelson who helped Bush land the gig playing drums ..... would give it to a student who had nothing.
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Elvis Presley - Wikipedia  Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935  August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. ... His music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with ... an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. ..... releases had made him a regional star, from Tennessee to West Texas.
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Roy Clark | Biography & History | AllMusic  In the '70s, Roy Clark symbolized country music in the U.S. and abroad. ... As one of the hosts of TV's Hee Haw (Buck Owens was the other) for more than ... Conceived as a country version of Laugh-In, Hee Haw began its run in 1969 on CBS.
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J! Archive - Show #3541, aired 2000-01-17  According to a TV theme song, it's Davy Crockett's royal nickname ... Nickname of the jazzman portrayed here by Al Hirschfeld: (Benny Goodman)...