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Hey there ... here we are gathering once again to revisit, in my opinion, the peak era of country music ... today we call it Traditional County Music. In our music-filled household it is called country music and what followed is a newly created country subset genre. For Update #61 we are going to venture into a different direction. Huh? Normally we have a specific bloated subject that requires wide-ranging several tentacles pulling together a final musical journey. Not this time ... nope we are going to take a look at lesser known but, in our opinion, outstanding country music artists. Another slight change is less text and more MP3 and MP4s.
When I began putting this update together, I quickly found there are far more
Clyde was one of the founders of American Bluegrass music. Like most musicians and singers, Clyde started with an unknown band in the 1930s ... moved to Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys from 1940-1944, and then became a solo artist and Grand Ole Opry star. Though he was not known for being a solo artist, thus there appears to be no record of the number of chart hits he had, he did have 3 #1s ... Gold Record, Shenandoah Waltz [video] in 1947, Six White Horses in 1940 and Whispering Pines in 1950. Clyde’s big break was joining Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys on the Grand Ole Opry in September 1940. His voice was a good contrast to Bill Monroe's voice. He appeared on Monroe's first solo recording
Clyde Moody
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Clyde Moody <> September 19, 1915 - April 7, 1989 [Heart Failure]
lesser-known artists with a story to tell than I could squeeze into one update. To that end, let’s take a closer look at Clyde Moody, Autry Inman, Marion Worth and our featured lesser known, Kenny Price. The future update will focus on four to ten others.
for RCA Victor's Bluebird label on October 7, 1940. He played guitar and sang on the Blue Grass Quartet's first recording, Cryin' Holy Unto My Lord.
Some of Clyde’s career highlights include visiting the White House three times and writing and recording the million-seller Shenandoah Waltz in 1947. He sang with a young Elvis Presley in 1955 when Tom Parker paired the two for a six-week tour. Moody was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2011. Clyde spent a few months playing radio duets with Lester Flatt. In addition, to work for Connie B. Gay at the Uline Arena in Washington, D.C. Clyde played various instruments in almost every subgenre of country music during his over fifty-year career artist. After Shenandoah Waltz became a certified gold hit Clyde followed that with similar tunes Cherokee Waltz and I Waltz Alone, he became known as the Hillbilly Waltz King. Beginning in 1945 Clyde remained at WSM radio and appearing on the Opry for several years as a solo artist. After....
