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Red Sovine

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Woodrow Wilson "Red" Sovine (July 7, 1917 – April 4, 1980) was an American country music singer and songwriter associated with truck driving songs, particularly those recited as narratives, but set to music. [1]

63 relations: A Dear John Letter, Archers of Loaf, Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, Boxcar Willie, C. W. McCall, Charleston, West Virginia, Charley Pride, Country music, Cover version, Dave Dudley, Decca Records, Del Reeves, Eric Clapton, Ferlin Husky, George Jones, Giddyup Go, Goldie Hill, Grand Ole Opry, Guitar, Hank Hill, Hank Williams, Henk Wijngaard, Hot Country Songs, Jean Shepard, King of the Hill, KWKH, Lay Down Sally, Louisiana Hayride, MGM Records, Mike Judge, Minnie Pearl, Minor League Baseball, Missing You (Red Sovine song), Montgomery, Alabama, Musician, Myocardial infarction, Nashville, Tennessee, Netherlands, Old Rivers, Ooberman, Phantom 309, Phantom 309 (album), Recording contract, Roses for Mama (song), Shreveport, Louisiana, Songwriter, Starday Records, Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits, Teddy Bear (Red Sovine song), ..., Tex Williams, The Country Gentlemen, Tom Waits, Tommy Faile, Traffic collision, Truck driver, Walter Brennan, Webb Pierce, West Virginia, Wheeling, West Virginia, Why Baby Why, WSFA, WWVA (AM). Expand index (13 more) »

A Dear John Letter

"A Dear John Letter", or "Dear John" is the name of a popular country music song, written by Billy Barton, Fuzzy Owen and Lewis Talley.

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Archers of Loaf

Archers of Loaf is an American indie rock band originally formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1991.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Boxcar Willie

Lecil Travis Martin (September 1, 1931 – April 12, 1999), whose stage name was Boxcar Willie, was an American country music singer-songwriter and air force personnel sergeant, who sang in the "old-time hobo" music style, complete with dirty face, overalls, and a floppy hat.

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C. W. McCall

William Dale Fries, Jr. (born November 15, 1928), is an American singer, activist and politician best known by his stage name C. W. McCall and for his truck-themed outlaw country songs.

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Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston is the most populous city in, and the capital of, the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Charley Pride

Charley Frank Pride (born March 18, 1934) is an American country music singer, musician/guitarist, recording artist, performer, business owner, and former baseball player.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Dave Dudley

Dave Dudley (born David Darwin Pedruska; May 3, 1928 – December 22, 2003) was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred bass.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Del Reeves

Franklin Delano Reeves (July 14, 1932 – January 1, 2007), better known as Del Reeves, was an American country music singer, best known for his "girl-watching" novelty songs of the 1960s including "Girl on the Billboard" and "The Belles of Southern Bell".

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Ferlin Husky

Ferlin Eugene Husky (December 3, 1925 – March 17, 2011) was an early American country music singer who was equally adept at the genres of traditional honky-tonk, ballads, spoken recitations, and rockabilly pop tunes.

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George Jones

George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American musician, singer and songwriter.

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Giddyup Go

"Giddyup Go" is a country music song made famous by Red Sovine.

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Goldie Hill

Goldie Hill (January 11, 1933 – February 24, 2005), born Argolda Voncile Hill, was an American country music singer.

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Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hank Hill

Henry "Hank" Rutherford HillSeason Five, Episode Ten: Yankee Hankie (at time 04:42 of 22:30) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Fox animated television series King of the Hill.

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Hank Williams

Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Henk Wijngaard

Henk Wijngaard (b. Stadskanaal, June 13, 1946) is a Dutch country singer.

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Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.

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Jean Shepard

Ollie Imogene "Jean" Shepard (November 21, 1933 – September 25, 2016) was an American honky tonk singer-songwriter who pioneered for women in country music.

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King of the Hill

King of the Hill is an American animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that ran from January 12, 1997 to May 6, 2010 on Fox.

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KWKH

KWKH (1130 AM) is a sports radio station serving Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Lay Down Sally

"Lay Down Sally" is a song performed by Eric Clapton, and written by Clapton, Marcella Detroit (as Marcy Levy, the diminutive form of her birth name), and George Terry.

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Louisiana Hayride

Louisiana Hayride was a radio and later television country music show broadcast from the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, that during its heyday from 1948 to 1960 helped to launch the careers of some of the greatest names in American country and western music.

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films.

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Mike Judge

Michael Craig Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director and musician.

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Minnie Pearl

Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American country comedian who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (from 1940 to 1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.

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Minor League Baseball

Minor League Baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in the Americas that compete at levels below Major League Baseball (MLB) and provide opportunities for player development and a way to prepare for the major leagues.

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Missing You (Red Sovine song)

"Missing You" is a song written by Red Sovine and Dale Noe, which was originally released by Red Sovine in 1955, and was later a hit single for Webb Pierce in 1957, Ray Peterson in 1961, and was posthumously a hit for Jim Reeves in 1972.

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Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County.

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Old Rivers

"Old Rivers" is a country music song written by Cliff Crofford which tells the story of a man recalling a childhood friendship with an elderly farmer.

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Ooberman

Ooberman are an English band with strong indie, folk and progressive influences first formed in 1997.

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Phantom 309

"Phantom 309" is a song written by Tommy Faile and released as a single by Red Sovine in 1967.

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Phantom 309 (album)

Phantom 309 is an album by Country Music singer Woodrow Wilson Sovine (July 17, 1918 – April 4, 1980), better known as Red Sovine released by Starday Records in 1967 and re-released by Power Pak Records (the budget division of Gusto Records) in 1975 with the same track listing and album art.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote.

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Roses for Mama (song)

"Roses for Mama" is a song recorded by both country music artists Red Sovine and C.W. McCall, and was a top 5 hit for McCall in 1977.

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is the third-largest city in the state of Louisiana and the 122nd-largest city in the United States.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Starday Records

Starday Records was a record label producing traditional country music during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits

Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits is the title of a tribute album to Tom Waits, released in 1995 by Manifesto Records.

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Teddy Bear (Red Sovine song)

"Teddy Bear" is a song made famous by country music singer Red Sovine.

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Tex Williams

Sollie Paul "Tex" Williams (August 23, 1917October 11, 1985) was an American Western swing musician from Ramsey, Illinois.

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The Country Gentlemen

The Country Gentlemen were a bluegrass band that originated during the 1950s in the area of Washington, D.C., United States, and recorded and toured with various members until the death in 2004 of Charlie Waller, one of the group's founders who in its later years served as the group's leader.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor.

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Tommy Faile

Tommy Faile (September 15, 1928 – August 2, 1998) was an American songwriter and singer best known for composing "Phantom 309" and singing "The Legend of the Brown Mountain Lights".

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Traffic collision

A traffic collision, also called a motor vehicle collision (MVC) among other terms, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.

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Truck driver

A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; a lorry driver, or driver in Ireland, the United Kingdom, India, Nepal and Pakistan) is a person who earns a living as the driver of a truck (usually a semi truck, box truck or dump truck).

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Walter Brennan

Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor.

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Webb Pierce

Michael Webb Pierce (August 8, 1921 – February 24, 1991) was an American honky tonk vocalist, songwriter and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade.

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West Virginia

West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States.

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Wheeling, West Virginia

Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Why Baby Why

"Why Baby Why" is the title of a country music song co-written and originally recorded by George Jones.

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WSFA

WSFA is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Montgomery, Alabama, United States, serving the Black Belt and River Region of central Alabama.

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WWVA (AM)

WWVA (1170 AM, NewsRadio 1170) is an American radio station that broadcasts on a frequency of 1170 kHz with studios in Wheeling, West Virginia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sovine

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